- Median age34
- Aged 65+16.1%
- Under 2533.2%
- Median household income$1,684/wk
- Median rent$411/wk
The suburb Deakin University put on the map.
Burwood is built around Deakin University's Melbourne campus, and it shows in the numbers: 15,147 people and a median age of 34, younger than most of Melbourne's east. Professional, scientific and technical services is the largest sector across the Whitehorse council area, 3,120 businesses, the kind of work a university suburb generates in consultants, tutors and small agencies working out of home offices and shared space near campus. Household income runs $1,684 a week, the income of people still building a career, not coasting on one.
33.2% of Burwood is under 25, and that share doesn't drive far for anything: Deakin's campus and the shops along Burwood Highway are both walkable from most of the suburb, so a business here is competing inside a catchment measured in blocks, not kilometres. A student near campus and a family in the older housing behind the shops compare the same three results on a phone before choosing a tutor, a physio, a mechanic or a café. Family income across Burwood runs $2,242 a week, so the money to pay properly is there, but the decision happens fast and on a screen, and a slow or dated site loses the booking before the business ever hears about it. A tight, well-built local site is the cheapest way to win that decision, and it works whether the search starts in a share house or a house three streets over.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Burwood brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
The Burwood market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Burwood itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Whitehorse area. This is the market your website sells into.
- Whitehorse total19,480
- Solo / non-employing12,959
- 1–4 staff4,755
- 5–19 staff1,415
- 20+ staff351
91% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
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Professional, scientific & technical services3,120
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Construction2,782
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Rental, hiring & real estate2,411
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Health care & social assistance1,863
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Retail trade1,577
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Transport, postal & warehousing1,395
*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 Burwood businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
A credibility site for a consultant, adviser or small agency working near Deakin: clear services, a proper bio, and a way to book a first meeting without a phone call.
- Services and pricing laid out clearly
- Booking form for a first meeting
- Mobile-first for phone research
- Fast load on 4G for on-the-go search
An online booking system for a physio, dentist or psychologist near campus, so a patient can find a slot and confirm it in under a minute, no phone tag required.
- Live appointment booking calendar
- Patient intake forms online
- SMS and email confirmations
- Practitioner bios and services
A shopfront-strength site for a café, boutique or specialty retailer on Burwood Highway, built to show up first when someone two streets over searches on their phone.
- Menu or product catalogue online
- Google Maps and trading hours
- Mobile ordering or enquiry form
- Local SEO for nearby searches
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Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Around Burwood 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.
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 Burwood is 34. 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.
Burwood questions.
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Burwood 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 Burwood, by registered businesses in Whitehorse. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.