Who lives here
25,553
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age37
- Aged 65+15.1%
- Under 2527.8%
- Median household income$2,158/wk
- Median rent$577/wk
Willoughby, New South Wales
The suburb where the North Shore's paperwork actually gets done.
Chatswood is Willoughby's professional core, not just a shopping strip with a train interchange under it. Across the Willoughby council area, professional, scientific and technical services lead by business count at 2,886, with rental, hiring and real estate close behind at 2,143, the mix you get where accountants, lawyers, agents and consultants cluster near clients who can afford them. The suburb itself holds about 25,553 residents, and a median age of 37 puts most of them well past the share-house years, building careers and families rather than passing through.
Weekly household income in Chatswood sits at $2,158, comfortable enough that a properly built website is not a hard sell here. But the suburb doesn't operate in isolation: St Leonards, North Sydney and the Sydney CBD are all a short train ride away, and a client comparing a local accountant, physio or conveyancer against a practice one or two stations over expects the same standard of site either way. A dentist, a personal trainer, an interior designer or a mortgage broker here isn't only competing with the practice next door, they're competing with whoever ranks first when someone searches from the platform at Chatswood station. A website that hangs on a train's patchy signal has already lost that enquiry to whoever's page loaded first.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Chatswood market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Chatswood itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Willoughby area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~4,550
businesses in Chatswood (estimated*)
- Willoughby total13,545
- Solo / non-employing8,377
- 1–4 staff3,582
- 5–19 staff1,201
- 20+ staff385
88% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Willoughby (2025)
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Professional, scientific & technical services2,886
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Rental, hiring & real estate2,143
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Financial & insurance services1,337
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Health care & social assistance1,279
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Construction1,220
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Retail trade740
*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 Chatswood businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Professional Services Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
A site for a solo consultant, accountant or lawyer that needs to read as established before the first phone call: service pages, credentials and an enquiry form that reaches a person, not a spam folder.
- Service pages for each specialty
- Enquiry form that reaches a person
- Mobile-first for commuters on the train
- Local SEO for Chatswood searches
Real Estate & Property Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
A listings-driven site for a property or letting agency, with a live feed, suburb profile pages and enquiry forms that route to the right agent, built to handle a lot of photos without slowing down.
- Live listings feed with filters
- Suburb and street profile pages
- Enquiry and appraisal request forms
- Fast load for photo-heavy listings
Financial & Advisory Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $10,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks
A site for a financial planner, mortgage broker or accountant, with online consultation booking, a secure client login and calculators clients can use before they ever pick up the phone.
- Secure client login area
- Online consultation booking
- Compliance-ready disclosures page
- Quick calculators for estimates
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Why FindDevs in Chatswood
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Chatswood 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 Chatswood's actual customers.
The median age in Chatswood is 37. 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
Chatswood questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A professional services site for a consultant, lawyer or accountant runs $3,000 – $8,000. A property or real estate site with a live listings feed sits at $4,500 – $12,000. A financial advisory site with online booking and a client login is $4,500 – $10,000. You'll get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers within 24 hours, so you're comparing real numbers, not estimates.
No. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on the brief, not the postcode. What matters for a Chatswood business is a site that loads fast on a phone at the train interchange, ranks for local searches and has a form that actually gets checked, not where the developer's desk happens to sit. You review three fixed-price quotes and pick the one that fits the job.
Most Chatswood projects run 2–6 weeks depending on scope. A professional services site is usually the fastest, at 2–4 weeks. A property listings site or a booking-enabled financial services site with a client login takes longer, typically 3–6 weeks, because of the extra integration work. You'll get a firm timeframe as part of your fixed-price quote, not a guess that slips once work starts.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Chatswood 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 Chatswood, by registered businesses in Willoughby. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Professional, scientific & technical services
2,886
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
2,143
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
1,279
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
1,220
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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