38.1% of people in work in Pease Pottage were working mainly from home in March 2021. For web design in Pease Pottage, it is the right place to start: who is looking, and what they want to find. For £69 a month, we set up a professional website with your brand, email on your domain and hosting, with no setup fee.
No setup fee: you only pay the £69 monthly fee once you have approved your website.
The local picture in Pease Pottage
The Mid Sussex local authority area grew by 5.4% between mid-2021 and mid-2024, to 161,122 people. New residents have no favourite plumber, café or hairdresser yet, so they search; a clear website is how a Pease Pottage business gets onto that first list.
Know your Pease Pottage audience
Driving is how 53.7% of employed people in Pease Pottage get to work. Parking details and a map answer the first question many drivers have. 23.8% of residents are aged 20 to 34. Make it easy to send a message without a phone call.
Children under 15 are 19.5% of residents of Pease Pottage. After-school and weekend hours deserve a place on the home page.
11.8% of residents aged 16 and over are self-employed. Competition among sole traders is strong, so photos of real work set you apart.
Mid Sussex businesses and what their websites need
Of the 8,340 business sites counted in the Mid Sussex local authority area (2026), these groups stand out against the national mix:
- Professional firms such as accountants, solicitors and engineers, 640 in Mid Sussex: the site should show office address and hours and how a first consultation works.
- Trades such as electricians, plumbers and roofers, 745 in Mid Sussex: the site should show a quote form that lands in their inbox and the services they offer and where.
- IT, software and digital firms, 370 in Mid Sussex: the site should show the team behind the work and a contact form for project briefs.
- Tutors, driving schools and training providers, 255 in Mid Sussex: the site should show instructor qualifications and how to enrol.
- Builders and renovation firms, 375 in Mid Sussex: the site should show how a quote request works and photos of finished projects, room by room.
- Cleaning, landscaping and building services, 295 in Mid Sussex: the site should show insurance details and photos of completed work.
The local count includes 25 fitness facilities, 30 hotels and 225 domestic building firms. Small firms dominate: 86.3% have fewer than ten staff, and 11.0% are sole proprietors.
Where Pease Pottage sits in the South East
Within a short drive of Pease Pottage: Handcross (1.7 miles south), Crawley (2.5 miles north), Balcombe (3.5 miles south-east) and Mannings Heath (4.4 miles south-west). For local government, Pease Pottage is part of the Mid Sussex local authority area. The nearest large city, Brighton and Hove, is roughly 17 miles away to the south. A website can name each place you serve, from Crawley to Handcross.
In Handcross, 37.3% of workers were based mainly at home in 2021; in Pease Pottage, 38.1%. Next to Pease Pottage, Handcross counted 1,399 people at Census 2021, with 62.2% of households owning their home.
Population and households in Pease Pottage
7.0% of households have no car or van, and 55.8% have two or more. Under-15s are 19.5% of the population, and people aged 65 or over 8.8%. Pease Pottage has 705 households; 23.8% are one-person households.
More Census 2021 figures for Pease Pottage
- One-person households aged 66 or over: 5.1%
- Adults in higher managerial or professional work: 17.6%
- Owned with a mortgage or loan: 43.7%
- Adults with no qualifications: 10.8%
- Bus, minibus or coach to work: 0.6%
- One-person households: 23.8%
- Households in caravans or mobile homes: 0.6%
Pease Pottage against its local authority area and England
On flat living, Pease Pottage (17.7%) compares with 19.7% for the Mid Sussex local authority area as a whole and 22.2% nationally. Adults with Level 4 qualifications or above: 34.6% in Pease Pottage, 38.7% across the Mid Sussex local authority area and 33.9% in England. The share of residents aged 65 or over is 8.8% in Pease Pottage, against 20.6% in the Mid Sussex local authority area and 18.4% in England.
Your website, built remotely for Pease Pottage
We have built business websites for small companies since 2008, with every step handled online. It all runs online, so a Pease Pottage business gets the same plan as anyone.
- Start with the online sign-up (about 5 minutes) and tell us what the business does.
- No more than 3 working days later, a temporary link shows you the full website, with your colours and logo.
- Approve the site and pay the first month: only then does it go live on your domain.
Later on, updates to text, photos and prices go by email and cost nothing extra.
- 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
Before you publish: rules that apply in England
A website does not need a special licence, but the business behind it follows the usual rules. A few that come up often:
- Organisations, including sole traders, that use personal information need to pay a data protection fee to the ICO, although many can rely on an exemption; the tier 1 fee is £52. ICO: data protection fee
- 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
- When you sell online, you must tell the customer they can cancel their order up to 14 days after it is delivered, and they do not need to give a reason. GOV.UK: online and distance selling
General information, not legal advice. Each link goes to the official page, where the details for your situation are.
Questions from Pease Pottage business owners
Is a website worth it in a place of 1,688 people?
Yes. Customers from across Mid Sussex search before they travel, and a website is how they find you. It also answers the basics (hours, prices, location) without a phone call.
Can the website be an online shop?
Yes, an online shop costs the same £69 a month as a regular website: a catalogue of your products, basket and online payment.
My customers come from Handcross and Crawley as well. Can I say so?
Yes. A section on the site can name Handcross, Crawley, Balcombe and the rest of the places you cover; email us the list and we add it.
Do we need to meet?
We work online from start to finish. You email your logo, photos and texts, and you approve the site on a temporary link.
Who writes the text and picks the photos?
Real photos taken with a good phone often work better than stock images. Email them with your logo and a list of services.
Does the site look right on a mobile?
Yes. The layout adapts to phones, tablets and computers, and every page keeps the contact form and your details.
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.
Let's build your Pease Pottage website
Tell us about your business in the sign-up form and we take it from there, by email.
- Population, households, housing, travel to work, work and qualifications: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, summed for the Pease Pottage built-up area (2022 definition). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
- Local authority population: ONS mid-year population estimates, mid-2021 and mid-2024.
- Local business units, Mid Sussex local authority: ONS UK Business Counts 2026.
- Built-up area locations: ONS Open Geography Portal; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023; distances are straight-line.
- Numbers come from the official sources above and are updated when new releases come out; distances are measured in a straight line.