Municipality in Groningen
Westerkwartier is big and thinly populated: well over 360 square kilometres around Leek, Marum and Grootegast. A customer here is on average 1.6 kilometres from the nearest supermarket, so anyone who can see online beforehand whether you are open and where you are saves a trip. We put that online for you.
Nearby
Roden is just over eleven kilometres from the centre of Westerkwartier, Achtkarspelen and Peize thirteen, Noordenveld just over fifteen and Groningen almost nineteen. Within the municipality you find Leek, Marum and Grootegast, among others. Business owners from all these places get the same help from us: you send a WhatsApp message and a person replies.
In figures
On 1 January 2026, Westerkwartier had 8,360 business locations, up from 7,030 in 2021. That is 18.9 percent more.
Westerkwartier has only 0.31 jobs per resident. Many residents therefore work outside Westerkwartier, and almost three in four live in an owner-occupied home.
64,841
Ranks 2nd of 10 municipalities in Groningen
8,360
In 2021: 7,030
128.9
National 144.8
20.4thousand
CBS 2025, 0.31 per resident
330thousand euro
National 398 thousand
1.6km
Average, CBS 2025
Trades
In Westerkwartier, agriculture is three times as big as average, even though business services and retail and wholesale are larger in number.
9.2% of business locations3.0 times the national average
Agriculture has 770 locations. If you sell from the farm or rent something out, put up a simple page: what you offer, when you are open and how to order, with the address and directions as text. Photos of the yard help.
16.7% of business locations
Put your trade and your service area in the first sentence, because customers come from several villages and search by their own village name. Business services have 1,400 locations. A form and email on your own domain are enough.
14.1% of business locations
Over long distances, current information helps: opening hours, address and what you sell, as text. Retail and wholesale has 1,180 locations here. If you also sell online, we host a WordPress online shop.
Pricing
One fixed price per month, excl. VAT. Personal help over WhatsApp comes with every plan.
Hosting for your website, from WordPress to custom builds
€9 per month, excl. VAT
or €90 per year
Your own mailboxes on your own domain
€6 per month, excl. VAT
or €60 per year
Our pick
Everything in one place, one invoice
€13 per month, excl. VAT
or €130 per year
Questions
Name the villages in one sentence about your service area, for example Leek, Marum and Grootegast, and show what work you did there. That says more than a long list.
Yes. With a WordPress online shop you sell products online, and we host it. If you would rather take orders through a form, a simple order page is enough.
Yes. We are in Hoevelaken and work remotely, so it makes no difference whether you are in Roden, in Peize or in a village of Westerkwartier itself.
Yes, we copy it to our servers for free and the old one stays online until you change the nameservers. Your email comes along. If you are tied to a yearly plan, the remaining months, up to 9, are free with us through the Switch deal.
Then you send what needs to change over WhatsApp or email and we make the change with the Changes add-on. Maintenance keeps WordPress updates and security in order.
A question about your site or email? Send a WhatsApp message and a real person answers. We are available Monday to Sunday, 9:00 to 21:00.
Hi, I have a business in Westerkwartier. Can you migrate my site?
Yes, and it's free. What is your domain name?
yourbusiness.com
Great, we'll take care of it and message you when it's done.
Example
An example situation
Take a farm shop in Westerkwartier: she sells from the farm, but her opening hours are only on a sign by the road and on social media. Anyone coming from further away does not know whether she is open.
She sends us the hours and what she sells over WhatsApp. We put them on one page, with the address and directions as text, and her email moves to her own domain.
By trade
What your website needs depends on what you do. Pick your trade.
Sources: Key figures for districts and neighbourhoods 2025 (86165NED), 2025; Business locations by industry and municipality (81575NED), 1 January 2026 (provisional), compared with 1 January 2021; Employee jobs in December by economic activity and region (83582NED), 2025. Licence: CC BY 4.0, CBS. Distances are as the crow flies.
Mood images, made with AI.
Order right away, or message us on WhatsApp first. We migrate your existing site for free, and personal help over WhatsApp is included.
