Websites for municipalities
Municipal website design residents can use without calling city hall
Websites for towns, cities, counties, regional districts and band administrations: services a resident can finish online, council meetings with their agendas and video, plain-language pages, and accessibility built to the WCAG level your law names, with a statement and a feedback route on every page.
- Website from $150/month, yours after 12 payments
- SEO plans from $149/month
The short answer
What should a municipal website include?
A municipal website should let a resident finish the common tasks without calling: pay a bill, report a problem, book a program, check collection days and find a council meeting with its agenda and video. It must meet the accessibility standard your jurisdiction sets, publish an accessibility statement, offer documents in other formats on request and stay in plain language.
- Price
- $1,500 upfront, or $150/month × 12
- Ownership
- Yours after 12 payments
- Hosting and care
- $29 or $49/month
- Build time
- About 4 weeks for a local site
Our designs
Our website designs for municipalities
Ready-to-launch designs: pick one and make it yours. Each is a complete homepage with its own layout, typefaces and colours. Open one to scroll it on a desktop or a phone.
9 of 9 designs shown
Lanmore
Mid-sized cities with many departments
Archivo and Manrope · Civic navy
- Cities
- Accessibility-first
Wrenfield
Towns that take most requests by phone today
Outfit · Meadow and slate
- Towns and villages
- Accessibility-first
Calder Mills
Clerks who publish agendas, minutes and video
Fraunces and DM Sans · Council brick
- Council and records
- Towns and villages
Ostrey
Counties and regions with several member towns
Bricolage Grotesque and Space Grotesk · Field gold
- Counties and regions
Saltmarsh
Coastal and northern towns with frequent closures
JetBrains Mono and Space Grotesk · Night harbour
- Towns and villages
- Cities
Linnet Harbour
Small villages that tell residents more than they serve online
Playfair Display and Manrope · Sea glass
- Towns and villages
- Accessibility-first
Corran Ridge
Cities with pools, arenas and program guides
Syne and DM Sans · Pool blue
- Cities
Tamsen Valley
Regional districts and counties with resident accounts
Manrope · Valley teal
- Counties and regions
- Apps and portals
Ellisford
Planning and building departments
Instrument Serif and DM Sans · Plan paper
- Towns and villages
- Council and records
Pay monthly, own it
High-converting websites from $150/month
Pick a design, add your brand, content and photos, and launch. Yours after 12 payments, with SEO built in from day one.
- Local website
- $150/monthUp to 25 pages · yours after 12 payments, or $1,500 upfront
- Growth website
- $400/monthUp to 100 pages · yours after 12 payments, or $4,000 upfront
Built in
What every municipality website includes
Tasks before departments
The homepage leads with what residents come to do, such as paying, reporting, booking and applying, and the org chart sits one level down. Search understands everyday words like “garbage day” as well as the official program names.
Accessibility you can show
Templates are built and tested against the WCAG level your law names, with keyboard paths, focus states, captions and readable contrast checked before launch. An accessibility statement, a feedback form and an offer of other formats sit in the footer of every page.
Council meetings residents can follow
Each meeting has its agenda, reports, captioned video and adopted minutes on one page, plus a way to request a delegation slot. Agendas can come straight from the clerk’s agenda software instead of being retyped.
Service requests that close the loop
A short report-a-problem flow takes a map pin, a photo and a contact preference, then returns a reference number. Requests go to your work-order or 311 system, and the resident sees each status change.
Plain language on every page
Pages are written to be understood the first time, with short sentences, the action first and the bylaw linked underneath. Long reports get a one-page summary so a resident can decide whether to read on.
Documents that are not locked in PDFs
Key forms and notices are web pages first, and the PDFs you keep are tagged, titled and checked for reading order. Old documents move to an archive with a clear note and an offer to provide them in another format.
Alerts and service status
Closures, water notices and collection changes appear in one status list that staff update in minutes. Residents choose alerts by service and area, with consent recorded and an unsubscribe in every message.
Built to be procured
We can answer an RFP with the accessibility approach, hosting, privacy and records handling written out. Staff edit content themselves after a short training, and nothing depends on one person’s login.
Compliance
The rules for municipalities, handled in the design
Local government websites are held to accessibility law more directly than almost any other. These are the rules we design around in the US, Canada, the UK and the EU, each linked to the body that sets it.
Sources gathered October 1, 2026. This is how our designs handle these rules, not legal advice: rules change and differ by province and state, so your clerk, accessibility coordinator or municipal solicitor has the final word, and you approve every page before it goes live.
- US
ADA Title II: WCAG 2.1 AA, with new dates
The Justice Department’s 2024 rule requires state and local government web content and mobile apps to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. An April 2026 interim final rule moved the compliance dates to April 26, 2027 for governments serving 50,000 people or more, and April 26, 2028 for smaller ones and special districts. The designs are built to 2.1 AA and the site is tested before anyone calls it conformant.
- US · federal
Section 508 as the federal model
Section 508 binds federal agencies, not towns, but its guidance on website accessibility statements is a useful public model for what such a statement should contain. Our statement template follows that outline: the standard you aim for, known gaps and how to report a barrier.
Section508.gov — Developing a website accessibility statement
- Ontario
IASR: public websites at WCAG 2.0 AA
Under the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation, designated public sector organisations, municipalities included, must make their public websites and web content conform to WCAG 2.0 Level AA, the only carve-outs being live captioning and recorded audio description. Council pages here target a newer WCAG version, so meeting 2.0 AA comes with it.
Ontario — O. Reg. 191/11, Integrated Accessibility Standards
- Ontario
Accessible feedback and formats on request
The same regulation requires an accessible way to give feedback, accessible formats and communication supports on request, and public notice that they are available. Every design carries a feedback link and an alternate-formats line in its footer, and the multi-year accessibility plan, which the regulation says to post on the organisation’s website, has its own page.
Ontario — A Guide to the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation
- British Columbia
An accessibility plan and a way to comment
Municipalities and regional districts prescribed under the Accessible British Columbia Act must have an accessibility committee, an accessibility plan and a process for the public to comment on barriers. The concepts give the plan a page and put the comment form one click from every page.
- New Brunswick
Both official languages where the Act applies
Under New Brunswick’s Official Languages Act, cities, and municipalities whose official-language minority is at least a fifth of the population, publish bylaws and minutes in English and French and offer prescribed services and communications in both. A site for one of them is built bilingual from the start, with each page paired.
- UK
An accessibility statement, kept current
Councils and other public sector bodies must meet WCAG 2.2 AA under the 2018 regulations, as the government’s guidance now reads, and publish an accessibility statement that says how far the site complies and how to report a problem. UK builds use the statement’s required wording and review it on a schedule.
GOV.UK — Make your website or app accessible and publish an accessibility statement
- EU
Web Accessibility Directive: statement and feedback
Directive (EU) 2016/2102 requires public sector bodies’ websites and apps to be accessible, to carry an accessibility statement, and to offer a feedback mechanism for reporting failures and requesting excluded content. EU builds follow the national law that transposes it, which sets the exact standard.
Everything for municipalities
Websites, apps, branding and SEO for municipalities
Websites
Municipalities websites built on the designs above, fast and set up for search.
From $150/month
Apps
Where residents deal with you every month, a resident app or account turns repeat tasks into a tap: bills, collection reminders, requests and permits.
Quoted per project
Apps for municipalitiesBranding
A town crest often dates from another century and a city logo from a different council. Branding has to unify signs, vehicles, the website and forms without erasing local history.
Quoted per project
Branding for municipalitiesSEO and leads
Ongoing SEO that checks your site every week and fixes what is safe to fix, for more completed service requests, payments, bookings and meeting attendance.
From $149/month
SEO plans and prices
Pricing
What a municipality website costs
The price of a municipality website is the same as any website we build: pay upfront and save, or spread it over 12 months.
Local website
$150/month × 12
or $1,500 upfront. Yours after the 12th payment.
- Up to 25 pages
- Any design on this page
- Technical SEO at launch
- Hosting and care $29/month
Growth website
$400/month × 12
or $4,000 upfront. Yours after the 12th payment.
- Up to about 100 pages
- Teams, offices and more integrations
- Planned with an advisor
- Hosting and care $49/month
SEO plans
$149/month
Local $149 · Growth $399
- Checks your site every week and fixes what is safe to fix
- New pages every month
- 7-day trial
Prices in US dollars. How payments, hosting and ownership work.
How it works
How your municipality website goes live
- 01
Pick a design
Choose one, or ask for something new. Tell us which tasks residents call about most and the systems you already run.
- 02
Send your content
Crest or logo, service pages, forms, meeting records and the accessibility plan you publish today.
- 03
Test before launch
Keyboard, screen reader and plain-language checks on the top tasks, with residents or staff who use assistive technology.
- 04
Launch and maintain
Old addresses redirect, staff are trained to edit, and accessibility is rechecked as content is added.
Pick my design
See your website before you pay for it
Choose a design and tell us about your business. An advisor emails you to plan a preview with your name, your colours and your details, and the price options. Nothing is charged until you decide.
- 1An advisor replies by email
- 2We plan your preview and scope
- 3You decide, with every price in writing
Questions
Municipalities: common questions
- How much does a municipal website cost?
- A municipal website of up to 25 pages is $1,500 paid upfront, or $150 a month for 12 months, and it is yours after the 12th payment. A larger site of up to about 100 pages is $4,000, or $400 a month. Hosting and care is $29 or $49 a month. Prices are in US dollars.
- Will the new website meet the ADA Title II web rule or the AODA?
- It is designed and built to WCAG 2.1 AA, which covers the ADA Title II rule and Ontario’s WCAG 2.0 AA requirement, and tested with keyboard, screen readers and automated checks before launch. We report what we tested and any gaps, and we never call a site compliant without that evidence.Conformance also depends on the documents and third-party tools you add after launch, so we show staff how to keep new content accessible.
- Do you write the accessibility statement and feedback form?
- Yes. Each site gets an accessibility statement page that names the standard, the date it was last checked, any known gaps and how to report a barrier, with a feedback form and an offer of other formats. UK builds use the wording the government guidance says is legally required, and you approve it.
- Can the website work with our agenda, permit and service request systems?
- It sends to any system that accepts requests by email, webhook or API, and it can show agendas, permit status or request updates where your software publishes them. A direct connection to a specific agenda, permitting, 311 or payment platform is scoped with an advisor and quoted before any work starts.
- Can the site be in English and French, or another language?
- Yes. Where the law or your council requires it, such as New Brunswick cities or Ontario municipalities that offer French services, every page is built in both languages with its pair linked. Other languages for newcomer information can be added as their own sections, written by a translator, never by machine alone.
- Will my municipality website rank on Google?
- It launches with the technical SEO done: fast pages, clean structure, structured data, local pages and redirects from your old site. To keep climbing, a BOOSTD SEO plan from $149 a month runs 262 checks on your site every week, fixes what is safe to fix and gets the rest ready for your OK.No one can promise a position on Google, and we never do. Google warns businesses about anyone who does.
- How long does a municipal website take to build?
- About 4 weeks for a local site and about 8 weeks for a larger one, counted from the day we have your content, logo, photos and licence details. A larger site is planned with an advisor first, so its timeline is confirmed in writing before any work starts.Procurement, accessibility testing with real users and council approval are planned into the schedule at the start, so the launch date is one you can announce.
- Can I get one of these municipal website designs?
- Yes. Each is a complete, ready-to-launch website design BOOSTD made for municipalities. Pick one and we make it yours, with your name, colours, photos, content and the licence or compliance details your industry expects, from $150 a month and yours after 12 payments.Approved client sites are shown with a “Client work” tag, and only with the client’s written permission.
Guides for municipalities
Reading for municipalities before you build
- Planned guideMunicipal website accessibility: the ADA, AODA and UK deadlines in one placePlanned: written with a named author and published once reviewed
- Planned guideWriting council and service pages residents understand the first timePlanned: written with a named author and published once reviewed
- HomepageWhat should be on a homepage so Google and customers get it
- MigrationWebsite migration SEO checklist for six types of move
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