City guides / Salem

SALEM web design.

Endcap Design is a web design agency that designs and builds websites for businesses, with the branding and marketing to match, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California. This guide collects the business numbers, building activity, and Oregon rules we would look at before designing a site for a business in Salem or elsewhere in the metro, including Keizer, Woodburn, and Monmouth.

Updated October 2026 with building permits through August 2026, from U.S. Census Bureau data. Sources are listed at the end of this page.

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Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email.

The market

SALEM
in numbers.

The figures that shape who a Salem website is for and what it needs to do. Each figure is the most recent Census release in this guide’s data, with its year shown.

445,814

residents in the metro

Census population estimate, July 2025

+2.7%

population change since 2020

April 2020 to July 2025; the US grew 3.1%

10,763

business locations with employees

County Business Patterns 2023

535

real estate businesses

NAICS 531, 2023

88

property management companies

Residential and nonresidential, 2023

1,297

new housing units permitted

January through August 2026

$82,732

median household income

American Community Survey 2024

38%

of households rent their home

61,708 renter households

Business mix

WHO DOES BUSINESS
in Salem.

Builders and developers are the most concentrated of these businesses in the Salem metro: 151 for every 100,000 residents, and their share of local businesses is 2.06 times the national share. Specialty contractors follow at 1.60 times the national share. Architecture and engineering firms are less common here than nationally, at 0.63 times the national share.

The chart compares each sector’s share of Salem-area business locations with its share nationally (a location quotient). 1.00× matches the US; higher means the sector is more concentrated here. County Business Patterns 2023.

  1. Builders and developers675 locations · 151 per 100,000 residents2.06×
  2. Specialty contractors1,073 locations · 241 per 100,000 residents1.60×
  3. Self-storage operators33 locations · 7 per 100,000 residents1.38×
  4. Real estate brokerages227 locations · 51 per 100,000 residents1.08×
  5. Restaurants and bars949 locations · 213 per 100,000 residents1.03×
  6. Law offices220 locations · 49 per 100,000 residents0.94×
  7. Property management companies88 locations · 20 per 100,000 residents0.87×
  8. Dental offices151 locations · 34 per 100,000 residents0.86×
  9. Commercial building owners30 locations · 7 per 100,000 residents0.67×
  10. Architecture and engineering firms95 locations · 21 per 100,000 residents0.63×

Building activity

WHAT’S BEING
built.

New buildings mean new properties to lease and new businesses to open. Census Building Permits Survey, August 2026.

Builders in the Salem metro were authorized to build 1,297 new housing units from January through August 2026, 44% more than the 902 in the same months of 2025.

42% of those units are in buildings with five or more homes, against 32% nationally.

That is an apartment-heavy pipeline. Each new community needs a leasing website, usually before construction finishes, and the developer often needs a project site for investors and the city as well.

Jan–Aug 2025902
Jan–Aug 20261,297
  • Single-family 729
  • Two to four units 27
  • Five or more 541

What this means for your site

BUILT FOR
Salem.

What we would plan into a Salem website, based on the numbers above.

Talk through your site
  1. 01

    Rentals one tap from the homepage

    38% of households here rent, against 35% nationally. Property management and apartment sites should put available rentals, the application, and the resident portal at the top of the homepage on phones.

  2. 02

    Launch before the building opens

    42% of new homes permitted this year are in buildings of five or more units. Pre-leasing websites need to be live months before the first move-in.

  3. 03

    Room for new projects

    Housing permits are up 44% over the same months last year. Each new project needs a name, a site plan, and a pre-leasing page, and the retail around it usually follows.

  4. 04

    Privacy notice and opt-outs

    The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) applies to many businesses that collect visitors’ details in Oregon. A covered site needs a current privacy notice and working opt-out links, and it must honor browser opt-out signals such as Global Privacy Control.

  5. 05

    Accessible by default

    Every site we build follows WCAG 2.2 AA practice: readable contrast, keyboard navigation, labeled forms, and text alternatives for images. Federal ADA website lawsuits run into the thousands each year, most of them filed in New York, Florida, and Illinois.

Oregon rules

WHAT THE LAW
asks of your site.

State rules that change what goes on a business or real estate website in Oregon, checked against official sources as of October 9, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice; your counsel owns the final wording.

Privacy

Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA)

ORS 646A.570 to 646A.589 · in effect since July 1, 2024 Source

The OCPA applies to any person that conducts business in Oregon or provides products or services to Oregon residents and that, during a calendar year, controls or processes the personal data of 100,000 or more consumers, not counting data processed only to complete a payment transaction, or the personal data of 25,000 or more consumers while deriving 25 percent or more of annual gross revenue from selling personal data. Motor vehicle manufacturers and their affiliates are covered for vehicle data regardless of these thresholds.

What the website needs
  • The privacy notice must list the categories of personal data processed, including sensitive data, the purposes, how consumers can exercise and appeal their rights, all categories of personal data shared with third parties, the categories of third parties described in enough detail to understand what each is, an actively monitored email address or online contact method, and the controller's business name as registered with the Secretary of State and any assumed name (ORS 646A.578(4)).
  • The privacy notice must clearly describe any targeted advertising or profiling with legal or similarly significant effects and the procedure for opting out (ORS 646A.578(4)(h)).
  • The controller must provide a clear and conspicuous link to a webpage where a consumer or authorized agent can opt out of targeted advertising, sale and certain profiling (ORS 646A.578(5)(b)).
  • A controller may not process sensitive data without consent, may not use the data of a consumer it knows or willfully disregards is under 16 for targeted advertising or significant profiling, and may not sell such a consumer's data or data that locates a consumer or device within a radius of 1,750 feet (ORS 646A.578(2)).

Real estate advertising

What an Oregon brokerage site must show

OAR 863-015-0125 (amended by REA 4-2025, eff. Jan. 1, 2026); OAR 863-025-0125; OAR 863-015-0143; ORS 696.370 (as amended by Or. Laws 2026, ch. 76 (SB 1513)) Source

Oregon requires all real estate advertising, including websites and social media, to be identifiable as a licensee's advertising and to make the registered business name immediately noticeable. A broker's or principal broker's website must show the licensee's name and the registered business name on its primary or home page.

What the website needs
  • 'Advertising' includes electronic media such as multiple listing services, websites, email, social media, mobile apps, and other online marketing (OAR 863-015-0125(1)(e)).
  • Advertising must be identifiable as advertising of a real estate licensee, must be truthful and not misleading, and may not state or imply that the licensee is a managing principal broker or responsible for operating the registered business unless that is true (OAR 863-015-0125(2)).
  • The registered business name, as registered with the Agency, must be immediately noticeable in all advertising (OAR 863-015-0125(4)).
  • A licensee's name in advertising must be the licensed name, a common derivative of the first name with the licensed last name, or an alternative name registered with the Agency shown together with the license number (OAR 863-015-0125(3)).
  • Electronic advertising by a broker or principal broker must include, on its primary or home page, the licensee's name and the registered business name (OAR 863-015-0125(5)(b)).

Accessibility

The federal ADA

ADA Title III Source

Title III of the ADA covers businesses open to the public, but the Department of Justice has no regulation that sets a technical standard for private business websites. DOJ's web guidance says businesses have flexibility in how they make their websites accessible and points to WCAG as a helpful existing technical standard. Federal appeals courts have not agreed on when a website is covered, so a website's legal status can depend on where a lawsuit is filed and whether the site is connected to a physical location. Oregon has no separate website accessibility statute for private businesses in our research, so WCAG 2.2 AA is the practical target.

What we design

FOR SALEM
businesses.

Ordered by how concentrated each kind of business is in the Salem metro. We design for every kind of business.

Portfolio

RECENT
work.

Websites and identities we have designed and built for our clients. See all of our work.

Client words

IN THEIR
words.

We own ten homes at Casa De Laguna and were still sending people to a site built in 2013. Noah pulled the photos and details out of the old site, designed a logo from the rooflines and the pond, and put the community, the homes and current availability in one place. It’s the first time the website has looked like the place we actually rent.

OwnerGreat OC CondosSee the project

“Highly recommend. Great work.”

Dan ParkerGreat OC Condos · Google review

FAQ

SALEM
questions.

Anything else? Ask us directly or text Noah at (425) 233-0769.

How many real estate businesses are in the Salem area?

The Census Bureau counted 535 real estate business locations with employees in the Salem metro in 2023, including 227 offices of agents and brokers and 88 property management companies.

How much new construction is happening in Salem?

From January through August 2026, the Salem metro permitted 1,297 new housing units, 44% more than a year earlier, according to the Census Building Permits Survey.

Does Oregon have a privacy law that affects business websites?

Yes. The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) (ORS 646A.570 to 646A.589) took effect July 1, 2024. The OCPA applies to any person that conducts business in Oregon or provides products or services to Oregon residents and that, during a calendar year, controls or processes the personal data of 100,000 or more consumers, not counting data processed only to complete a payment transaction, or the personal data of 25,000 or more consumers while deriving 25 percent or more of annual gross revenue from selling personal data. Motor vehicle manufacturers and their affiliates are covered for vehicle data regardless of these thresholds.

What does Oregon require on a real estate website?

Oregon requires all real estate advertising, including websites and social media, to be identifiable as a licensee's advertising and to make the registered business name immediately noticeable. A broker's or principal broker's website must show the licensee's name and the registered business name on its primary or home page. (OAR 863-015-0125 (amended by REA 4-2025, eff. Jan. 1, 2026); OAR 863-025-0125; OAR 863-015-0143; ORS 696.370 (as amended by Or. Laws 2026, ch. 76 (SB 1513)))

Do you work with Salem businesses remotely?

Yes. Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email. You review the design and the working site online before launch.

How much does a website cost?

We quote each project after a short conversation, once we know the pages, content, and features it needs. The proposal lists the deliverables, schedule, and price, and we agree on it before work begins.

How long does a website take?

Most websites take two to four weeks once the content is ready. The proposal confirms the schedule.

Nearby city guides

Other markets near Salem

Sources

Figures are for the metropolitan statistical area unless noted. Business counts cover locations with paid employees. Data refreshed 2026-10-10.

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