- Median age42
- Aged 65+20.7%
- Under 2528.4%
- Median household income$1,806/wk
- Median rent$400/wk
The suburb known for its blowhole, not its high street.
Blackmans Bay is a beach suburb in the Kingborough council area, population 7,688, with an estimated 550 businesses of its own. Construction is the biggest industry across Kingborough, 647 businesses deep, well ahead of professional, scientific and technical services, which says tradies and builders carry more of the region's work than consultants or shopfronts. The median age is 42, a suburb of settled households rather than one still filling in around a new estate.
Household income here is $1,806 a week, family income $2,134, easily enough to pay a tradesman properly instead of chasing the cheapest quote in a group chat. But Blackmans Bay is a headland suburb built around a beach and a small local centre, not a strip anyone drives through on the way to somewhere else. A resident with a job to get done can just as easily point the car toward Kingston's bigger centre or on into Hobart, and once that drive starts the local business has usually lost the sale. A plumber, a physio, a landscaper or a hairdresser here needs to be the first result on a phone before that decision gets made, not a shopfront someone happens to walk past. A website that ranks locally is worth more here than a sign on the highway.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Blackmans Bay brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
The Blackmans Bay market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Blackmans Bay itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Kingborough area. This is the market your website sells into.
- Kingborough total2,929
- Solo / non-employing1,839
- 1–4 staff732
- 5–19 staff287
- 20+ staff71
88% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
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Construction647
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Professional, scientific & technical services414
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Health care & social assistance236
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Rental, hiring & real estate230
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Transport, postal & warehousing182
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing172
*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.
What Blackmans Bay businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
A site built for builders, electricians and plumbers working Kingborough's biggest industry: clear services, a quote form and photos that load fast on site Wi-Fi.
- Service area and callout coverage map
- Quote request form with job photos
- Before/after project gallery
- Mobile-first for job-site browsing
For consultants, engineers and advisers who sell expertise rather than stock: credentials, case studies and a booking form that gets the enquiry past the front page.
- Credentials and case studies page
- Enquiry form with qualifying questions
- Clean, credible professional design
- Fast load on mobile data
For physios, dentists and allied health clinics: online booking, service pages and a system that keeps the calendar full without a receptionist on the phone all day.
- Online booking and calendar sync
- Service and practitioner pages
- Patient intake forms
- Mobile booking in two taps
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Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
In a town of ~550 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.
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.
The median age in Blackmans Bay is 42. 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.
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.
Blackmans Bay questions.
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Blackmans Bay businesses like any other. No hourly rates, no discovery call before you can see a number.
A sharp five-page website that makes a small business look established, live in a fortnight.
See what's includedThe full small-business build: 8–12 pages, booking or quoting flows, and local SEO that actually ranks.
See what's includedThe ranking machine bolted onto your existing site: service pages, suburb pages, schema and reviews, done properly once.
See what's includedHosting, updates, backups, security and monthly changes, all handled, so your site stays fast and safe without you thinking about it.
See what's includedDevelopers who have built for your trade before.
The biggest employers around Blackmans Bay, by registered businesses in Kingborough. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.