Mission is one of the Fraser Valley's fastest-growing communities, home to 41,519 residents at the 2021 Census and among British Columbia's five fastest-growing cities between 2022 and 2023, adding nearly 2,000 new residents in that single year. That growth is landing across Downtown Mission, Silverdale, and Silver Creek Business Park, and it means a steady stream of new residents, new households, and new small-scale multi-unit housing looking for local businesses they haven't found yet. For a business owner here, that's an opening: the community searching online for you today didn't exist five years ago.
Mission's economy still runs on a handful of large institutional employers — School District 75 (Mission Public Schools), the City of Mission, Correctional Service Canada's Mission Institution, and Fraser Health's Mission Memorial Hospital — alongside roughly 450 member businesses of the Mission Regional Chamber of Commerce and the University of the Fraser Valley's Mission Campus. That mix means many local trades and service businesses have grown on word of mouth rather than a dense small-business core, and plenty are still running scheduling, invoicing, and customer follow-up by hand.
Downtown, the First Avenue Business Improvement Area has been through a multi-phase streetscape revitalization, but independent merchants there are still working to pull shoppers back from cross-river habits and from anchor tenants like Save-On-Foods, Canadian Tire, Winners, and Staples at The Junction Shopping Centre. Competing on price or selection against that isn't realistic for most independent retailers and hospitality operators — competing on brand, local search visibility, and a genuinely good website is.
Outside the core, Mission's Agricultural Land Reserve supports dairy, poultry, hog, beef, and vegetable farms that mostly sell wholesale, and the city's forestry sector — including its red cedar shake and shingle producers — operates alongside Mission's status as holder of British Columbia's only municipal tree farm licence. Whether you're a farm ready to sell direct to Fraser Valley households or a manufacturer that needs better systems behind the scenes, EduWeb builds the websites, software, and automation to match where your business actually is today.