Who lives here
28,044
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age38
- Aged 65+16.1%
- Under 2531.7%
- Median household income$2,084/wk
- Median rent$500/wk
Parramatta, New South Wales
A commuter suburb that runs on construction and consulting, not shopfronts.
Carlingford sits inside the City of Parramatta, and the council numbers point at a services economy rather than a shopping strip: construction runs the largest slice of local business at 5,539, with professional, scientific and technical services close behind at 5,062 across the council area. That is offices and trade vans, not factories. The suburb itself holds 28,044 residents on a median household income of $2,084 a week, comfortably above the Sydney average, and Carlingford Court still does the daily retail heavy lifting along Pennant Hills Road. This is a professional, high-income suburb built around commuting, not a town that lives off passing trade.
Business has always come from word of mouth, plenty of owners here would say, and that's why the website never got past a single page with a phone number on it. But word of mouth doesn't reach a suburb where 31.7% of residents are under 25, a generation that searches first and asks around second, if it asks at all. A tutor, a hairdresser, a physio or a driving instructor chasing that crowd is competing on Google, not on who their parents know. With 16.1% of residents aged 65 and over too, the same site has to work at both ends: quick and simple for a teenager on a phone, legible and uncluttered for someone who isn't going to pinch-zoom. Build for one age group and ignore the other, and it's only half doing its job.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Carlingford market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Carlingford itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Parramatta area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~3,700
businesses in Carlingford (estimated*)
- Parramatta total34,124
- Solo / non-employing21,856
- 1–4 staff9,365
- 5–19 staff2,164
- 20+ staff739
91% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Parramatta (2025)
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Construction5,539
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Professional, scientific & technical services5,062
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Transport, postal & warehousing4,240
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Rental, hiring & real estate3,927
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Health care & social assistance2,696
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Administrative & support services2,040
*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 Carlingford businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Contractor Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Built for builders, electricians and other trades working the Parramatta area, with quote requests, a job gallery and a mobile-first enquiry form that turns a Google search into a booked quote.
- Instant quote request form
- Mobile-first for on-site searches
- Google Business Profile setup
- Job photo gallery
Professional Services Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For accountants, consultants, engineers and real estate agents who need a site that reads as credible as the office does, with case studies, credentials and a clear enquiry path.
- Credentials and case studies page
- Booking or callback request
- Clean, credible design system
- Local SEO for Parramatta searches
Booking & Enrolment Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For clinics, allied health practices and tutoring colleges that need online bookings, enrolment forms and patient or student intake handled without phone tag.
- Online booking and calendar sync
- Enrolment or intake forms
- Automated confirmation emails
- Patient or student portal login
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Why FindDevs in Carlingford
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Carlingford 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 Carlingford's actual customers.
The median age in Carlingford is 38. 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
Carlingford questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or contractor site for a builder or electrician typically runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. A professional services site for an accountant, consultant or real estate agent sits around $3,500 – $9,000. A booking or enrolment build, the kind a clinic or tutoring college needs, runs $4,500 – $12,000 given the extra work in calendars, intake forms and logins. Every quote is fixed-price before work starts, so there's no surprise invoice halfway through.
They're vetted Australian developers matched to your brief, not a local agency with a shopfront on Pennant Hills Road. What matters for a website build is rarely proximity, it's whether the developer has built the kind of site you need before. You get three fixed-price quotes from developers suited to the job, you compare them, and you pick one. There's no requirement to meet in person, and most of this work happens over email and a shared brief anyway.
It helps if it's built for local search, not just built. That means the site is set up for terms like a suburb name plus the service, a properly configured Google Business Profile, and pages that load fast on a phone, since most local searches in a suburb this size happen on mobile. With 31.7% of Carlingford under 25 searching before asking around, and a construction and professional-services economy generating steady demand across Parramatta, a site with proper local SEO earns its keep quickly rather than sitting there as a digital business card.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Carlingford 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 Carlingford, by registered businesses in Parramatta. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
5,539
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
5,062
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
3,927
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
2,696
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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