Web design for Portland businesses

Health care and social assistance alone holds 15.4% of the 1,111,602 paid employees counted in the metro in 2023.

Retail trade adds 10.9% and manufacturing 10.7%, so three sectors hold 37% 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 manufacturing.

Hospitality and food is fourth, with 109,906 paid employees in 6,913 establishments.

9,591 health care and social assistance establishments in the metro need online booking, intake forms and an accessible path for every patient. The 7,036 in retail trade need stock that matches the till and a phone checkout.

Manufacturing counts 3,084 establishments that need spec sheets, distributor lookups and request-for-quote forms, and accommodation and food services, fourth at 109,906 employees, needs hours, menus and bookings that read on a phone in a hurry.

Professional, scientific and technical services ranks fifth at 86,690 employees, and the 12 sectors we read cover 937,901 of the 1,111,602 paid employees in the metro.

Together the four employ 521,209 people, 46.9% of the payroll count; the sector figures shape the scope, and the six sites above are our delivered work.

With 944 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 1,157 establishments, 158.6 per 10,000 businesses.

Marketing consulting (570) and advertising agencies (199) often sell websites too, so the full field in the metro is wider than the programming count.

Custom programming establishments went from 707 in 2018 to 647 in 2023, while graphic design stood at 297, 40.7 per 10,000 businesses.

Those 647 programming firms employed 6,621 people, about 10.2 each. The wider 5415 group employed 10,100.

Every place page uses the same Census tables, so these ranks compare like with like: 72,943 establishments here against the 64 places' own counts, 42nd for their change since 2018.

Programming firms run 88.7 per 10,000 businesses here against a median of 85.2. The under-20 share is 85.9% 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 1,380, 29th 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.