Who lives here
17,706
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age44
- Aged 65+23.2%
- Under 2527.6%
- Median household income$1,176/wk
- Median rent$220/wk
Unincorporated NSW, New South Wales
The last big town before the map runs out.
Broken Hill is the last sizeable town before the South Australian border, and its business register in Unincorporated NSW reflects that: agriculture leads with 86 businesses, and accommodation and food services follow at 37, a fair measure of how many people pass through rather than live here. The population is 17,706, and a median age of 44 makes this an established town, not a young mining camp chasing shift workers.
17,706 people is not a large market when the next town of any size is a long day's drive off, which means the roughly 3,560 businesses already trading in Broken Hill are not just competing with each other, they are competing with whatever a customer can order from a capital city and wait a week for. A mechanic, an electrician, a chemist or a stock and station agent who can be booked today and serviced today has a real edge over a freight truck, but only if the website says so before the customer gives up and orders in. Median family income of $1,627 a week says locals can afford to pay for that speed, and a site that still says 'call for pricing' is telling them to go ahead and order from the city instead.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Broken Hill market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Broken Hill itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Unincorporated NSW area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~3,560
businesses in Broken Hill (estimated*)
- Unincorporated NSW total205
- Solo / non-employing129
- 1–4 staff42
- 5–19 staff33
- 20+ staff3
83% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Unincorporated NSW (2025)
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing86
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Accommodation & food services37
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Construction14
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Transport, postal & warehousing13
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Rental, hiring & real estate12
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Retail trade10
*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 Broken Hill businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Rural Contractor Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
For stock and station agents, fencing contractors, auto electricians and mechanics working properties and jobs across the district.
- Mobile-first for a ute dashboard
- Quote request form, not just email
- Service area and callout radius
- Fast load on regional 4G
Pub, Cafe & Roadhouse Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For pubs, cafes and roadhouses feeding travellers and locals: a menu that loads fast, trading hours up front, and a phone number that works.
- Menu and hours front and centre
- Click-to-call phone number
- Photos that load on slow data
- Google Maps and trading hours
Rental & Real Estate Listings Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For property managers and agents listing rentals and rural holdings, with search, enquiry forms and listings that update without a developer.
- Searchable property listings
- Enquiry form to agent inbox
- Update listings without a dev
- Map view of available stock
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Why FindDevs in Broken Hill
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Broken Hill 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 Broken Hill's actual customers.
The median age in Broken Hill is 44. 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
Broken Hill questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward trade or contractor site runs $3,000 - $8,000 and takes 2-4 weeks. A pub, cafe or roadhouse site with menus and photos runs $3,500 - $9,500 over 3-5 weeks. A listings or booking site with search and enquiry forms runs $4,500 - $12,000 over 4-6 weeks. FindDevs matches you with three vetted developers who quote a fixed price for your brief within 24 hours, so you compare real numbers rather than guess.
No, and it rarely matters. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on your brief, not your postcode, so you get people who build to a fixed price and a fixed deadline rather than whoever happens to have an office nearby. For a town this far from the nearest capital, that widens your options rather than narrowing them: you are choosing from developers across the country instead of the handful who might be local. What matters is a developer who understands regional connectivity and builds a site that loads properly on the phone plans people actually have out here, not one who happens to share your postcode.
Timeframes depend on scope. A simple trade or contractor site is usually 2-4 weeks from brief to launch. A hospitality site with a menu, photos and trading hours takes 3-5 weeks. A listings or booking build with search and enquiry handling takes 4-6 weeks, mostly because of the extra testing a working search function needs. FindDevs gets you a fixed-price quote from three vetted developers within 24 hours of sending your brief, so the clock on the build itself only starts once you have picked one and agreed the scope.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Broken Hill 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 Broken Hill, by registered businesses in Unincorporated NSW. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Accommodation & food services
37
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Accommodation & food services
37
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
14
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
12
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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