Who lives here
21,976
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age36
- Aged 65+13.5%
- Under 2530.5%
- Median household income$1,658/wk
- Median rent$370/wk
Frankston, Victoria
A Frankston suburb that builds more than it shops.
Carrum Downs is a Frankston suburb built on trade skills rather than shopfronts. Frankston's largest sector is construction, with 3,122 businesses across the council area, and the trade vans parked on Hall Road each morning are the local evidence of it. Carrum Downs carries an estimated 1,800 businesses of its own, and household income is $1,658 a week, comfortable rather than flashy. The median age is 36, which reads as young families and tradies building equity, not retirees.
'Everyone around here already knows us' is the easy answer in a suburb of almost 22,000 people, and it held up for a while. Carrum Downs sits close enough to Frankston and Skye that residents search Google as easily as they ask a neighbour, and the businesses that show up in that search win the job, not the ones people merely remember. A locksmith, a real estate agent, a physio or a landscaper needs a site that loads fast on a phone between jobs and takes the booking there and then. Professional, scientific and technical services is the second-largest sector across Frankston council, with 1,270 businesses, so plenty of your competitors already understand what a proper site is worth. A fast, well-built one is the difference between the recommended trade and the third quote.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Carrum Downs market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Carrum Downs itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Frankston area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~1,800
businesses in Carrum Downs (estimated*)
- Frankston total11,516
- Solo / non-employing6,924
- 1–4 staff3,194
- 5–19 staff1,124
- 20+ staff274
88% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Frankston (2025)
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Construction3,122
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Professional, scientific & technical services1,270
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Rental, hiring & real estate1,101
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Health care & social assistance939
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Retail trade760
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Other services720
*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 Carrum Downs businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Service Site
Typical price
$3,200 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
For the sparkies, plumbers and builders behind Frankston's construction numbers: a site that shows the work, photographs finished jobs and gets the phone ringing before a competitor does.
- Quote request form
- Gallery of completed jobs
- Click-to-call on mobile
- Local SEO for service areas
Retail & Shopfront Site
Typical price
$3,800 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For Carrum Downs shopfronts and the retail trade sector across Frankston, a site with stock, trading hours and directions doing the work a tired Facebook page never could.
- Product or menu listing
- Trading hours up front
- Google Maps and directions
- Mobile-first design
Booking & Client Portal
Typical price
$5,000 – $12,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks
For clinics, agents and consultants doing Frankston's professional and health care work, online booking and client logins cut the phone tag and the no-shows.
- Online appointment booking
- Client login area
- Automated reminders
- Secure payment integration
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Why FindDevs in Carrum Downs
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Carrum Downs 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 Carrum Downs's actual customers.
The median age in Carrum Downs is 36. 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
Carrum Downs questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or service site built to show finished work and take booking enquiries runs $3,200 – $8,000. A retail shopfront site with stock and trading hours sits at $3,800 – $9,500. A booking system or client portal, the kind clinics and agents use, runs $5,000 – $12,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers within 24 hours, so you know the number before you commit to anything.
The developers we match you with are vetted Australians experienced in building for small business, not necessarily based in Carrum Downs itself. What matters is that they build to your brief: your services, your competitors nearby, and your customers' habits. You brief them once, three quotes come back within 24 hours, and you pick the one that fits your budget and timeline.
It depends on the build, not just the domain name. Carrum Downs sits close enough to Frankston and Skye that customers compare options across both of them, so the site needs proper local SEO: your suburb and services in the page titles, a Google Business listing that matches, and pages that load fast on a phone. Done properly, that is what gets a Carrum Downs search to land on you instead of the next suburb over.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Carrum Downs 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 Carrum Downs, by registered businesses in Frankston. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
3,122
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
1,270
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
1,101
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
939
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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