Who lives here
10,615
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age37
- Aged 65+11.3%
- Under 2513.3%
- Median household income$2,279/wk
- Median rent$550/wk
Sydney, New South Wales
Small suburb, serious money, no room to hide a bad website.
Darlinghurst is small and dense: 10,615 people packed into a few blocks between the CBD and Oxford Street, on some of the priciest real estate in the country. Median household income here is $2,279 a week, well above the Sydney average, and it means customers can pay properly for good work. The median age is 37, and only 13.3% of residents are under 25, so this isn't a share-house student strip. It's professionals and long-term renters who know exactly what a good website looks like, because they use one at work every day.
The City of Sydney counts 18,661 professional, scientific and technical services businesses across the council area, more than any other industry, and Darlinghurst carries its share of that in small legal practices, design studios and consultancies run out of terrace-house offices. Too many of them still treat a website as a digital business card, a name, a phone number and a stock photo of a handshake, when the person searching is comparing five consultants in the same postcode before lunch. A solicitor, an interior designer, a psychologist or a marketing freelancer working from Darlinghurst is not competing with a suburb ten kilometres away, they are competing with the office next door and the one across Oxford Street. A site that looks like everyone else's loses that fight before the phone even rings, and a proper one costs less than a single afternoon of billable hours.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Darlinghurst brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Darlinghurst market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Darlinghurst itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Sydney area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~4,210
businesses in Darlinghurst (estimated*)
- Sydney total85,193
- Solo / non-employing54,691
- 1–4 staff19,007
- 5–19 staff7,632
- 20+ staff3,863
87% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Sydney (2025)
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Professional, scientific & technical services18,661
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Financial & insurance services14,993
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Rental, hiring & real estate14,809
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Construction5,943
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Accommodation & food services4,280
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Retail trade4,237
*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 Darlinghurst businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Consultancy & Studio Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Built for the solicitors, consultants and design studios that make up Darlinghurst's professional services scene, credible enough to close a deal before the meeting ends.
- Case studies and service pages that convert
- Fast enough for a client checking on mobile
- Contact forms that route to the right inbox
- SEO for suburb and CBD search terms
Restaurant & Bar Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For the bars, cafes and restaurants around Oxford Street, a menu that loads fast, bookings that skip the phone call, and photos that actually sell the room.
- Menu and specials updated in minutes
- Table bookings without a phone call
- Photo galleries that load fast on 4G
- Google Maps and opening hours sorted
Property & Letting Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks
For agencies managing Darlinghurst's fast-turning rental and sale listings, a searchable portal with inspection bookings and virtual tour embeds built in.
- Searchable listings with live filters
- Online inspection booking calendar
- Virtual tour and floorplan embeds
- Enquiry forms that alert agents instantly
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Why FindDevs in Darlinghurst
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Darlinghurst 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 Darlinghurst's actual customers.
The median age in Darlinghurst 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
Darlinghurst questions.
It depends on what you need. A professional services or consultancy site for a solicitor, consultant or design studio runs $3,000 – $8,000. A hospitality site for a bar, cafe or restaurant is $3,500 – $9,500. A property or letting portal with searchable listings and booking runs $4,500 – $12,000. Every quote is fixed-price and comes from three vetted developers within 24 hours, so you know the number before you commit to anything.
Turnaround depends on scope. A consultancy or professional services site typically takes 2-4 weeks. A restaurant or bar website with a full menu and photography takes 3-5 weeks. A property portal with listings, inspection bookings and virtual tours takes 4-8 weeks. You get three fixed-price quotes within 24 hours of sending a brief, so the timeline is agreed before any work starts, not guessed at halfway through.
Not necessarily, and that's by design. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on your brief, not your postcode, so you get whoever is the best fit for a professional services site, a hospitality site or a property portal rather than whoever happens to have an office nearby. They work from your brief, your competitors and the searches your customers actually type, which matters more in a suburb this small and this competitive than a physical address ever would.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Darlinghurst 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 Darlinghurst, by registered businesses in Sydney. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Professional, scientific & technical services
18,661
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
14,809
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
5,943
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Accommodation & food services
4,280
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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