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South Perth, Western Australia

A river suburb built on professional services, not tourism.

Como sits on the Canning River a few minutes from the Perth CBD, and it reads as a professional address rather than a working suburb. Household income runs to $1,780 a week and family income further again at $2,550, income that supports a proper contractor's rate rather than a discount quote. Professional, scientific and technical services is the largest industry across the South Perth council area, with 1,049 businesses on the books, accountants, engineers, architects and consultants who like having the postcode on a letterhead. Around 14,786 people live here, close enough to walk to the river and still make a nine o'clock meeting in town.

You'd picture a river suburb like this as empty-nester territory, couples with the mortgage long since cleared. The numbers say otherwise: 25.8% of Como's residents are under 25, a share that sits close to the 20.6% who are over 65, so this is a suburb split between two different audiences rather than settled into one. A real estate agent listing an apartment near the river is chasing young professionals who search on a phone between meetings. A financial adviser or a physio further along the strip is fielding older clients who want a number they can actually ring. One website has to do both jobs: big enough type and a visible phone number for the older half, a fast mobile booking flow for the younger half, not a single template that quietly loses one of them. Get that balance wrong and you're paying for a website that only half your street can use.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Como market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
14,786
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age38
  • Aged 65+20.6%
  • Under 2525.8%
  • Median household income$1,780/wk
  • Median rent$350/wk
The business scene
~1,810
businesses in Como (estimated*)
  • South Perth total5,499
  • Solo / non-employing3,742
  • 1–4 staff1,195
  • 5–19 staff443
  • 20+ staff119

90% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, South Perth (2025)
  • Professional, scientific & technical services1,049
  • Rental, hiring & real estate954
  • Construction674
  • Health care & social assistance610
  • Financial & insurance services391
  • Transport, postal & warehousing380

*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 Como 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
$3,500 – $8,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For accountants, consultants, architects and financial advisers who need a site that reads as credible as the letterhead.

  • Services and expertise pages
  • Team and credentials profiles
  • Contact form and phone click-to-call
  • Local SEO for Como and South Perth
Real Estate & Property Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $10,500
Timeline
4–6 weeks

Built for agencies and property managers working the river strip, with listings, enquiry forms and a search that works on a phone.

  • Property listing and search pages
  • Enquiry and appraisal request forms
  • Agent profile pages
  • Mobile-first for on-the-go buyers
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,000 – $9,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For physios, clinics and financial advisers who take appointments, with online booking so the phone stops being the only way in.

  • Online appointment booking
  • Service and pricing pages
  • Practitioner profiles
  • SMS or email booking confirmations

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Why FindDevs in Como

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Como 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 Como's actual customers.

The median age in Como 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

Como questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A professional services site for a consultant, accountant or adviser runs $3,500 – $8,500. A real estate or property management site with listings and search sits at $4,500 – $10,500. A booking site for a clinic or practice, with online appointments, is $4,000 – $9,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before committing to anything.
Referrals still start with a phone check now. Someone hears your name from a neighbour or a colleague and looks you up before calling, especially the 25.8% of Como residents under 25 who default to a search rather than a phone call. If nothing comes up, or what comes up looks dated, the referral quietly goes to whoever ranks first for the same search. A website doesn't replace word of mouth, it backs it up.
It should, and it needs to. Como's population splits fairly evenly between the young and the older end, 25.8% under 25 and 20.6% over 65, so a site built only for one group misses the other. The developers we match build clear layouts with readable type and an obvious phone number for anyone who wants to ring, plus a fast mobile booking flow for anyone who wants to do it themselves. That balance matters more here than in a suburb skewed to one age group.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

The biggest employers around Como, by registered businesses in South Perth. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.

Professional, scientific & technical services
1,049 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
954 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
674 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
610 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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