Who lives here
7,143
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age43
- Aged 65+23.2%
- Under 2530.2%
- Median household income$1,469/wk
- Median rent$350/wk
Mandurah, Western Australia
A canal suburb with two different customers to answer to.
Dawesville sits south of Mandurah on the Cut, the channel through to the ocean, with canal estates built along its length. It looks like a retirement suburb from the highway, but the numbers don't back that up outright: 23.2% of the 7,143 residents are aged 65 and over, and 30.2% are under 25, close to a third of the place. Construction leads business counts across the Mandurah council area with 1,247 businesses, and out here that shows up as canal-front renovations and new builds rather than office fitouts.
Take the property manager who lets canal-front holiday houses out of Dawesville over summer. Her customers are booking from two hours down the coast, comparing three or four listings on a phone, and a weekly household income here of $1,469, family income $1,739, means most of them can afford the better-presented option without a second thought. A gallery that loads slowly or a booking form that won't work on one bar of beach reception loses that customer to whichever competitor's site works first. Dawesville already has an estimated 400 local businesses chasing the same searches, from the builder quoting a canal-block renovation to the physio near the highway, and the suburb has the money to choose carefully. A site that looks the part is what lets it choose you.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Dawesville brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Dawesville market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Dawesville itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Mandurah area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~400
businesses in Dawesville (estimated*)
- Mandurah total5,199
- Solo / non-employing3,120
- 1–4 staff1,391
- 5–19 staff544
- 20+ staff144
87% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Mandurah (2025)
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Construction1,247
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Professional, scientific & technical services547
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Rental, hiring & real estate505
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Health care & social assistance430
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Other services416
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Transport, postal & warehousing405
*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 Dawesville businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Builder Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
For builders, electricians and plumbers working the canal estates: a mobile-first site built for renovation and maintenance callouts, with a quote form that doesn't get buried in a Facebook inbox.
- Quote request form
- Gallery of past jobs
- Service area map
- Click-to-call button
Holiday Letting Booking Site
Typical price
$5,000 – $11,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For canal-front holiday lets and short-term rentals: a booking site with live availability, secure payment and galleries built to convert a two-minute scroll on a phone into a confirmed booking.
- Live availability calendar
- Secure online payments
- Property photo galleries
- Automated booking emails
Clinic & Professional Services Site
Typical price
$3,200 – $7,500
Timeline
2–3 weeks
For clinics, allied health and professional practices: an appointment-booking site with large type and clear contact details, built for a suburb with residents at both ends of working age.
- Online appointment booking
- Large, legible type
- Staff and service pages
- Google Maps directions
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Why FindDevs in Dawesville
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
In a town of ~400 businesses there might be one or two people building websites, if they're taking work on. We put your brief in front of vetted developers across Australia and hand you three written quotes to compare, 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 Dawesville's actual customers.
The median age in Dawesville is 43. 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
Dawesville questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward site for a trade or local service business, like a builder or an electrician, typically runs $3,000 - $8,000. A booking site for something like a holiday letting business, with live availability and online payments, runs $5,000 - $11,000. A clinic or professional practice site with online booking sits around $3,200 - $7,500. You will get three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours of asking, so you can compare exact numbers for your project rather than a general range.
Most projects run 2-4 weeks for a straightforward trade or service site, and 4-6 weeks for something with a live booking calendar, like a holiday letting site with real-time availability and payments. A clinic or professional practice site with online appointment booking usually takes 2-3 weeks. You will have three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours of getting in touch, so the build timeline is confirmed early, before you commit to anything.
The developers we match you with are Australian, vetted for their skills, and matched to the brief you give us, not to a location. They are not necessarily based in Dawesville or Mandurah. What they bring is experience building sites that work for the kind of project you need, whether that's a trade site, a booking system or a clinic booking page, and they build it around the facts of your business: your customers, your prices and what you actually need the site to do.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Dawesville 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 Dawesville, by registered businesses in Mandurah. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
1,247
local businesses
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Professional, scientific & technical services
547
local businesses
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Rental, hiring & real estate
505
local businesses
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Health care & social assistance
430
local businesses
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