Web design for Austin businesses

Accommodation and food services alone holds 12.9% of the 1,042,004 paid employees counted in the metro in 2023.

Professional, scientific and technical services adds 12.1% and retail trade 11.8%, so three sectors hold 36.8% of the payroll count.

The three cards above are the three largest of the 12 sectors we read for the metro, by paid employees: accommodation and food services, professional, scientific and technical services and retail trade.

Health care is fourth, with 120,877 paid employees in 7,125 establishments.

5,951 accommodation and food services establishments in the metro need hours, menus and bookings that read on a phone in a hurry. The 12,232 in professional, scientific and technical services need proof of expertise, case pages and a routed enquiry form.

Retail trade counts 6,650 establishments that need stock that matches the till and a phone checkout, and health care and social assistance, fourth at 120,877 employees, needs online booking, intake forms and an accessible path for every patient.

Construction ranks fifth at 77,222 employees, and the 12 sectors we read cover 916,717 of the 1,042,004 paid employees in the metro.

Together the four employ 503,961 people, 48.4% of the payroll count; the sector figures shape the scope, and the six sites above are our delivered work.

With 1,659 programming and graphic design establishments in the metro, ask each firm for live sites you can open, who will own the code and domain, and a written scope.

The wider NAICS 5415 group, computer systems design and related services, counted 2,762 establishments, 416.7 per 10,000 businesses.

Marketing consulting (798) and advertising agencies (259) often sell websites too, so the full field in the metro is wider than the programming count.

Custom programming establishments went from 1,209 in 2018 to 1,461 in 2023, while graphic design stood at 198, 29.9 per 10,000 businesses.

Those 1,461 programming firms employed 28,216 people, about 19.3 each. The wider 5415 group employed 40,991.

Every place page uses the same Census tables, so these ranks compare like with like: 66,280 establishments here against the 64 places' own counts, 1st for their change since 2018.

Programming firms run 220.4 per 10,000 businesses here against a median of 85.2. The under-20 share is 85.1% against 84.4%.

The 64 are the places whose web design searches clear 500 a month in Semrush's exact data, state pages counted with any places folded in; this one draws 2,360, 11th of the 134 places we measured nationwide.

Calls and screen-shares cover the whole build, and you review the work in your own browser between them; no branch office or answering service sits in between.