Older residents are a big part of Bognor Regis: 27.6% are 65 or over, and 31.0% of adults are retired. Customers in Bognor Regis look for the basics first: what you do, where you are and how to reach you. Our £69 plan covers the website or online shop, your domain, email and hosting, ready within 3 working days on a temporary link.
No setup fee: you only pay the £69 monthly fee once you have approved your website.
A closer look at Bognor Regis
The Arun local authority area grew by 3.3% between mid-2021 and mid-2024, to 170,692 people. New residents have no favourite plumber, café or hairdresser yet, so they search; a clear website is how a Bognor Regis business gets onto that first list.
Where 9.0% of residents have a main language other than English, clear and simple wording goes a long way: short sentences, photos that show the service and prices that need no explanation.
With 6.9% of adults holding an apprenticeship as their top qualification, Bognor Regis has plenty of skilled tradespeople, and plenty of competition. Photos of real jobs and your accreditations help you stand out.
Local businesses in Arun
Of the 6,470 business sites counted in the Arun local authority area (2026), these groups stand out against the national mix:
- Trades such as electricians, plumbers and roofers (730 sites): a quote form that lands in their inbox and the services they offer and where.
- Builders and renovation firms (300 sites): how a quote request works and the areas they build in.
- Hair and beauty salons and other personal services (210 sites): photos of their work and the price list.
- Hotels, B&Bs and holiday lets (65 sites): what is nearby and rates by season.
- Childcare and care providers (125 sites): what a typical day looks like and staff qualifications.
Among the trades with their own count, the Arun local authority area has 100 landscape service firms and 30 hotels. 85.1% are micro businesses with up to nine employees.
Bognor Regis by the numbers
Bognor Regis has 30,237 households; 31.8% are one-person households.
Bognor Regis: more from the census
- Born in the UK: 86.5%
- Working 49+ hours a week: 10.1%
- Workers travelling less than 5 km: 25.2%
- Households of one person: 31.8%
- Adults with no qualifications: 21.4%
- Households in semi-detached homes: 24.4%
- Higher managerial and professional jobs: 9.1%
Bognor Regis against its local authority area and England
On home working, Bognor Regis (20.2%) compares with 24.7% for the Arun local authority area as a whole and 31.5% nationally. Households renting privately: 20.9% in Bognor Regis, 18.2% across the Arun local authority area and 20.5% in England. Adults with Level 4 qualifications or above: 24.5% in Bognor Regis, 26.4% across the Arun local authority area and 33.9% in England.
Serving Bognor Regis and nearby
Nearby towns and villages include Pagham (3.1 miles south-west), Barnham, Arun (3.7 miles north-east) and Yapton (4.1 miles north-east). The nearest large city, Portsmouth, is roughly 17 miles away to the west. Bognor Regis is in the Arun local authority area. If you work in Barnham, Arun or Yapton as well, the site can say so on a service area page.
Next to Bognor Regis, Pagham counted 1,291 people at Census 2021, with 88.1% of households owning their home. In Pagham, 25.3% of workers were based mainly at home in 2021; in Bognor Regis, 20.2%.
The people a Bognor Regis website talks to
Driving is how 56.0% of employed people in Bognor Regis get to work. Put your address and postcode where they are easy to find.
Outright owners: 42.9% of households in Bognor Regis. Home improvement firms should show photos of finished jobs.
33.2% of workers in Bognor Regis work part-time. Customers keep varied hours, so make your opening times obvious.
A £69 website, step by step
Aria is a web design team that has been building small business websites since 2008. Nothing needs to happen in person: you send what you have by email and see the whole website on a temporary link before it goes live.
- Sign up online in roughly 5 minutes, then email us your logo and a few photos.
- We put the site together with your logo, colours and photos, and send you a temporary link within 3 working days.
- Approve the site and pay the first month: only then does it go live on your domain.
After launch, you keep asking for changes by email: a new photo, an updated price, a new service. They are part of the monthly fee.
- A business website or an online shop, for the same monthly fee
- Your own domain: bring the one you have, or we help you choose one
- Email on your domain: unlimited accounts, 5 GB in total, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, an SSL certificate and daily backups
- Changes to text, photos and prices, requested by email
- Ready within 3 working days on a temporary link
The legal basics for Bognor Regis businesses online
Some homework for Bognor Regis businesses before the website goes live:
- A limited company has to be registered with Companies House before it starts trading; registering online costs £100. GOV.UK: register a limited company
- You cannot set non-essential cookies on your website before the visitor has consented to them, and that consent must be actively and clearly given. ICO: cookies
- You must not send marketing emails or texts to individuals without specific consent; there is a limited exception for your own previous customers, often called the soft opt-in. ICO: email marketing
Every business is different, so treat this as general information, not legal advice, and check the official pages linked above.
Questions from Bognor Regis business owners
Which platform do you use?
On the Aria Platform, which is built on WordPress and set up by our team, so you get a professional site without dealing with the technical side.
Will the website work on phones?
Yes, it is built to work on phones first, with buttons that are easy to tap and pages that load quickly.
Do we need to meet?
We work online from start to finish. Logo, photos and texts come by email, and you approve the site on a temporary link.
Can the website be an online shop?
Yes. Choose an online shop in the sign-up and you get catalogue, basket and online payment at the same monthly fee.
Who keeps the website up to date?
Our team does it for you: email what needs changing and we take care of it, along with hosting, SSL and backups.
Am I tied in for a year?
You can stop the service whenever you need to; there is no setup fee and no long-term commitment.
What do I need to send?
Send what you have; we put it into a proven template with your colours and logo, and you review all the text before anything goes live.
Do I pay anything to get started?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the £69 monthly fee once you have approved your website. No lock-in contract. You can stop the service whenever you need to.
Ready to get your Bognor Regis business online?
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- Census figures: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 tables by output area, added up for the Bognor Regis built-up area as defined in 2022. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
- Mid-2021 and mid-2024 population of the Arun local authority area: ONS mid-year population estimates.
- Business sites in the Arun local authority area: Office for National Statistics, UK Business Counts 2026 (local units).
- Locations of Bognor Regis and the places around it: ONS Open Geography Portal, Built Up Areas 2022; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023.
- Numbers come from the official sources above and are updated when new releases come out; distances are measured in a straight line.