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Brisbane, Queensland

A ten-minute ferry ride from the city, and priced like it.

Bulimba runs on Oxford Street and the CityCat, not on volume. The suburb counts 7,623 people, most of them settled into a riverside postcode within easy reach of the city rather than commuting in from the outer suburbs. Median age is 40 and household income is $2,805 a week, well above what most of Brisbane earns, which says plainly that the businesses here sell to people who can pay properly rather than compete on price. Professional, scientific and technical services is the industry the whole Brisbane council area runs on, 26,208 businesses strong, and Bulimba supplies its share in consultants, lawyers and agency owners working from Queenslander verandahs and new apartments behind the strip.

Bulimba's own population is 7,623, not enough to fill Oxford Street on locals alone, and only 880 businesses are chasing that number, so in the ten minutes before someone books a table, calls an electrician or rings a physio, they are deciding from a ferry queue or a car parked two blocks over, comparing whoever comes up first on the phone in their hand. Family income of $3,626 a week and 28.3% of residents under 25 mean the job on offer is a full kitchen renovation or an ongoing legal retainer, priced properly and booked from a phone, not the cheapest quote going. A cafe owner, a boutique operator, a mortgage broker or a physiotherapist here competes on a short, dense strip, where a slow-loading site loses the customer to the shop two doors down, not a business across town.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Bulimba market, by the numbers.

Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Bulimba itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Brisbane area. This is the market your website sells into.

Who lives here
7,623
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age40
  • Aged 65+13.4%
  • Under 2528.3%
  • Median household income$2,805/wk
  • Median rent$500/wk
The business scene
~880
businesses in Bulimba (estimated*)
  • Brisbane total145,916
  • Solo / non-employing91,188
  • 1–4 staff36,539
  • 5–19 staff13,340
  • 20+ staff4,849

88% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Brisbane (2025)
  • Professional, scientific & technical services26,208
  • Rental, hiring & real estate19,638
  • Construction18,377
  • Health care & social assistance15,180
  • Transport, postal & warehousing12,139
  • Financial & insurance services8,759

*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 Bulimba businesses actually build.

Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.

Cafe & Boutique Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For the cafes, boutiques and salons along Oxford Street: online menus, click-and-collect, gift vouchers and booking widgets that work for walk-past traffic and locals alike.

  • Mobile-first menu & gift vouchers
  • Click-and-collect ordering
  • Instagram feed integration
  • Google Maps & opening hours upfront
Professional Services Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks

For the consultants, lawyers and agency owners working from home offices behind the strip: a credible personal-brand site that reads as well as the client meetings it leads to.

  • Personal brand & credentials page
  • Enquiry form with calendar sync
  • Services & expertise breakdown
  • Fast load on mobile data
Property & Rental Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
5–8 weeks

For property managers and agents working the rental and real estate trade along the river: listings, enquiry forms and booking tools built for buyers who compare before they call.

  • Property listings with search filters
  • Booking & inspection scheduling
  • Enquiry routing to agents
  • Fast search across listings

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Why FindDevs in Bulimba

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Bulimba 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 Bulimba's actual customers.

The median age in Bulimba is 40. 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

Bulimba questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A cafe, boutique or salon site with online menus, gift vouchers and click-and-collect typically runs $3,500 - $9,500 and takes 3-5 weeks. A professional-services site for a consultant, lawyer or agency runs $3,000 - $8,000 over 2-4 weeks. A property or rental portal with listings and booking tools runs $4,500 - $12,000 over 5-8 weeks. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers and returns fixed-price quotes within 24 hours, so you can compare before committing to any of them.
No. What matters is whether the developer understands what your customers do in the ten minutes before they call, not which suburb they work from. FindDevs matches Bulimba businesses with three vetted Australian developers suited to the brief, whether that is a booking system for a rental agency, an online menu for a cafe on Oxford Street or a brand site for a consultant working from a home office. You compare three fixed-price quotes and pick the one that fits, all within 24 hours of asking.
Most projects here run 2-8 weeks depending on scope. A straightforward professional-services or personal-brand site can be built and live in 2-4 weeks. A cafe or boutique site with online ordering and gift vouchers usually takes 3-5 weeks. A property or rental portal with listings, search and booking tools takes longer, typically 5-8 weeks, because there is more to build and test. FindDevs gets you three quotes within 24 hours so the clock on the build itself can start straight away.
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