Who lives here
8,883
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age54
- Aged 65+35.1%
- Under 2521.3%
- Median household income$1,261/wk
- Median rent$340/wk
Bundaberg, Queensland
The beach town Bundaberg retires to.
Bargara is the beach a lot of Bundaberg retires to, twenty minutes from town and built more for the people who live here than for people passing through. The population is 8,883, the median age is 54, and 35.1% of residents are 65 or older, all pointing the same way: this is a settled coastal town, not a growth suburb chasing young families. Weekly household income is $1,261, comfortable rather than flush. Turtles nest at Mon Repos up the road and the golf club does steady trade, but the everyday economy here is retirees, allied health and the businesses that serve them.
'Half my customers are regulars, I don't need a website' is the honest reason a lot of Bargara businesses give for putting it off, and in a town of 8,883 that's been true for a long time. It stops being true the day a retiree's family flies up from Sydney and searches for a physio, a plumber, a builder or a decent cafe before they've even landed, or a new arrival chasing the coast picks whoever shows up first. Bargara has an estimated 670 local businesses, most still running on word of mouth and a Facebook page, which means fewer competitors are properly online than you'd think and the ones who are win the search by default. Bargara doesn't need clever, it needs to load fast on a phone, use text large enough to read without squinting, and put a phone number where it can be found in one glance, given 35.1% of the town is 65 or older.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Bargara market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Bargara itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Bundaberg area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~670
businesses in Bargara (estimated*)
- Bundaberg total7,542
- Solo / non-employing4,502
- 1–4 staff1,915
- 5–19 staff877
- 20+ staff248
85% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Bundaberg (2025)
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing1,362
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Construction1,279
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Rental, hiring & real estate824
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Health care & social assistance740
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Professional, scientific & technical services530
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Other services476
*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 Bargara businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Renovation Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
A straightforward site for builders, renovators and trades working Bargara's retiree-heavy renovation market: quote requests, a gallery of finished jobs and clear contact details.
- Quote request form
- Finished job gallery
- Mobile-first layout
- Google Business integration
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
Online booking built for physios, dentists and aged care providers, with appointment slots, service pages and forms that work for a customer base used to phoning, not clicking.
- Online appointment booking
- Large, readable type
- Service & specialist pages
- Click-to-call phone number
Holiday Letting & Real Estate Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
A listings-led site for real estate and holiday letting agencies, built to show property availability, calendars and enquiry forms without a monthly portal fee.
- Property listing pages
- Availability calendar
- Enquiry form with alerts
- Fast image-heavy pages
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Why FindDevs in Bargara
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
In a town of ~670 businesses there might be one or two people building websites, if they're taking work on. We put your brief in front of vetted developers across Australia and hand you three written quotes to compare, 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 Bargara's actual customers.
With a median age of 54 and 35.1% of locals over 65, we match developers who design for readability, fast regional connections and easy booking, not design-award vanity.
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
Bargara questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or renovation site with a quote form runs $3,000 - $8,000 and takes 2-4 weeks. A booking site for allied health or aged care, with online appointments and service pages, runs $4,500 - $12,000 over 4-6 weeks. A real estate or holiday letting site with listings and a calendar sits at $3,500 - $9,500 over 3-5 weeks. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers so you can compare before committing to any of them.
Not necessarily, and we don't pretend otherwise. FindDevs matches your brief to three vetted Australian developers based on the work you need, not their postcode. What matters for a Bargara business is that they understand the brief: a site that loads fast on a phone, reads clearly for an older customer base, and gets found when someone new to town searches for what you do. You review three fixed-price quotes and pick the one that fits.
Yes, if it's built for one. With 35.1% of Bargara aged 65 or older and a median age of 54, a site with small type, cluttered menus and hidden phone numbers loses customers before it starts. The fix is plain: large readable text, high contrast, a phone number visible on every page, and forms that don't ask for more than necessary. That's a design brief, not a compromise, and it's one the developers we match are told about upfront.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Bargara 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 Bargara, by registered businesses in Bundaberg. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
1,279
local businesses
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Rental, hiring & real estate
824
local businesses
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Health care & social assistance
740
local businesses
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Professional, scientific & technical services
530
local businesses
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