Who lives here
11,171
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age41
- Aged 65+20.2%
- Under 2529.7%
- Median household income$1,682/wk
- Median rent$470/wk
Gold Coast, Queensland
Handy to the hospital and the highway, not the beach.
Arundel sits on the inland side of the Gold Coast, between the Nerang River and the Pacific Motorway, closer to the Gold Coast University Hospital and Griffith University than to any beach. It's a suburb of 11,171 people built around servicing rather than tourism: construction leads the Gold Coast council area with 15,355 businesses, the trade that follows rooftops rather than day-trippers. Arundel itself carries an estimated 1,470 local businesses, and household income runs to $1,682 a week, comfortable without being flashy. This is a suburb people live and work from, not one they drive to for a day out.
Arundel has no high street of its own to catch passing trade. It sits inland between the Nerang River and the bigger commercial strips at Ashmore, Southport and Nerang, so a customer who doesn't find a local business in the first few search results just drives to one of those instead. It matters more here than in most Gold Coast suburbs because 29.7% of residents are under 25, a generation that decides where to go without leaving the couch, comparing tradies, cafes and clinics on a phone before any car moves. A plumber, a dentist, a personal trainer or a mortgage broker in Arundel isn't only competing with the business two doors down, they're competing with everyone in the surrounding suburbs who shows up first on the phone in someone's hand.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Arundel market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Arundel itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Gold Coast area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~1,470
businesses in Arundel (estimated*)
- Gold Coast total83,266
- Solo / non-employing52,343
- 1–4 staff21,663
- 5–19 staff7,072
- 20+ staff2,188
89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Gold Coast (2025)
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Construction15,355
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Rental, hiring & real estate12,135
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Professional, scientific & technical services11,181
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Health care & social assistance6,713
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Transport, postal & warehousing5,633
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Retail trade5,079
*Suburb business estimate: LGA business count (ABS CABEE, Data by Region) apportioned by the suburb's share of the LGA population at the 2021 Census; rounded to the nearest 10. Sources: ABS Census 2021 (Suburbs and Localities), ABS Data by Region. Refreshed 2026-08-29.
Typical projects
What Arundel businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Construction Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $8,500
Timeline
3–4 weeks
A site built for builders, electricians and plumbers working the Gold Coast's biggest industry: fast quotes, a clear service area and a contact form that doesn't lose the job.
- Quote request form that emails you the job
- Service area map for the Gold Coast
- Before-and-after project gallery
- Mobile-first for tradies on site
Clinic & Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$5,000 – $11,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For GPs, physios and allied health practices near the hospital and university precinct: online booking, patient forms and a site that reads clearly for every age group.
- Online appointment booking
- Patient intake forms
- Practitioner bios and services pages
- Google Maps and opening hours upfront
Property & Rental Listings Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $10,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For real estate and rental agents managing listings across the Gold Coast: searchable property pages, enquiry forms and a site built to rank against the bigger agencies.
- Searchable property listings
- Enquiry form on every listing
- Suburb and price filtering
- Fast load on mobile data
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Why FindDevs in Arundel
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Arundel the problem isn't finding someone who says they build websites. It's telling who's actually good. We vet so you don't have to, then hand you three written quotes from developers matched to your exact brief, in 24 hours.
All Australian. All vetted.
Every developer holds an ABN, works Australian hours, and passed our vetting: portfolio, communication, and references from Aussie clients. 12% acceptance rate. No offshore hand-offs.
Built for Arundel's actual customers.
The median age in Arundel is 41. Your customers find everything on their phones, usually in a spare minute. We match developers who build mobile-first, fast-loading pages that turn that search into a call or a booking.
Free, with a safety net.
The service costs you nothing. Developers cover our fee from their winning quote, never inflated into your price. And if a matched developer drops the ball mid-project, we step in. Service Guarantee, always.
FAQ
Arundel questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or service site for a builder, electrician or plumber typically runs $3,500 – $8,500 and takes 3–4 weeks. A booking site for a clinic or allied health practice runs $5,000 – $11,000 over 4–6 weeks, and a property or rental listings site runs $4,500 – $10,000 over the same timeframe. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers who each quote a fixed price within 24 hours, so you know the real number before committing to anything.
Most Arundel projects run 3–6 weeks depending on scope. A straightforward trade or service site is quicker to build than a clinic booking system with online appointments, or a property listings site with search and filtering. Either way, you get an actual timeframe rather than a guess, because it comes attached to a fixed-price quote from a real developer within 24 hours of submitting your brief, before any work starts.
Not necessarily, and that's fine. FindDevs matches you with vetted Australian developers based on what your project needs, not where they live, so the person quoting your job might be in Brisbane or Perth rather than on the Gold Coast. What you get is three fixed-price quotes within 24 hours from developers who build to your brief, your local competition and your customers, without the overhead of a local agency.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Arundel businesses like any other. No hourly rates, no discovery call before you can see a number.
Starter Business Website
$1,990
1–2 weeks
A sharp five-page website that makes a small business look established, live in a fortnight.
See what's includedProfessional Business Website
$4,950
2–4 weeks
The full small-business build: 8–12 pages, booking or quoting flows, and local SEO that actually ranks.
See what's includedLocal SEO Build-Out
$2,950
2 weeks
The ranking machine bolted onto your existing site: service pages, suburb pages, schema and reviews, done properly once.
See what's includedWebsite Care Plan
$190
Ongoing monthly
Hosting, updates, backups, security and monthly changes, all handled, so your site stays fast and safe without you thinking about it.
See what's included
Your industry
Developers who have built for your trade before.
The biggest employers around Arundel, by registered businesses in Gold Coast. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
15,355
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
12,135
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
11,181
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
6,713
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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