Web design for Columbus businesses

Health care and social assistance alone holds 17.6% of the 985,064 paid employees counted in the metro in 2023.

Retail trade adds 10.6% and accommodation and food services 10.2%, so three sectors hold 38.4% of the payroll count.

The three cards above are the three largest of the 12 sectors we read for the metro, by paid employees: health care and social assistance, retail trade and accommodation and food services.

Manufacturing is fourth, with 73,869 paid employees in 1,390 establishments.

6,208 health care and social assistance establishments in the metro need online booking, intake forms and an accessible path for every patient. The 5,594 in retail trade need stock that matches the till and a phone checkout.

Accommodation and food services counts 4,869 establishments that need hours, menus and bookings that read on a phone in a hurry, and manufacturing, fourth at 73,869 employees, needs spec sheets, distributor lookups and request-for-quote forms.

Finance and insurance ranks fifth at 70,661 employees, and the 12 sectors we read cover 793,987 of the 985,064 paid employees in the metro.

Together the four employ 451,786 people, 45.9% of the payroll count; the sector figures shape the scope, and the six sites above are our delivered work.

With 625 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 1,021 establishments, 220 per 10,000 businesses.

Marketing consulting (237) and advertising agencies (110) often sell websites too, so the full field in the metro is wider than the programming count.

Custom programming establishments went from 491 in 2018 to 510 in 2023, while graphic design stood at 115, 24.8 per 10,000 businesses.

Those 510 programming firms employed 8,736 people, about 17.1 each. The wider 5415 group employed 13,336.

Every place page uses the same Census tables, so these ranks compare like with like: 46,419 establishments here against the 64 places' own counts, 27th for their change since 2018.

Programming firms run 109.9 per 10,000 businesses here against a median of 85.2. The under-20 share is 81.2% 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 1,020, 44th 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.