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Northern Beaches, New South Wales

The peninsula suburb the trains never reached.

Dee Why is a beachside suburb of about 23,354 people that also carries real professional weight. Across the Northern Beaches council area, professional, scientific and technical services lead every other sector with 7,390 businesses, the kind of base you would expect from a coastal strip that keeps half its working life local rather than commuting into the CBD. Dee Why itself is home to an estimated 2,970 businesses, from the surf shops and dive operators on Pittwater Road to the accountants and physios working above them, backed by a weekly household income of $2,106 that is well above what a beach postcode implies.

Getting to Dee Why on public transport means a bus, because the Northern Beaches has never had a rail line, and anyone travelling in from the west has already decided whether the trip is worth it before reaching Pittwater Road. Younger customers make that call fastest, and 25.0% of Dee Why's population is under 25, renters and share-housers who research everything on a phone before they leave the flat. For a physio, an electrician or a café owner working that strip, the site has to close the sale before the bus arrives, because a page that loads slowly on patchy reception is a page nobody finishes reading.

Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Dee Why brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.

Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Dee Why market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
23,354
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age36
  • Aged 65+12%
  • Under 2525%
  • Median household income$2,106/wk
  • Median rent$550/wk
The business scene
~2,970
businesses in Dee Why (estimated*)
  • Northern Beaches total33,595
  • Solo / non-employing19,575
  • 1–4 staff10,466
  • 5–19 staff2,850
  • 20+ staff704

89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Northern Beaches (2025)
  • Professional, scientific & technical services7,390
  • Construction5,861
  • Rental, hiring & real estate3,970
  • Health care & social assistance2,195
  • Financial & insurance services1,977
  • Retail trade1,722

*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 Dee Why businesses actually build.

Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.

Trade & Professional Services Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks

For the plumbers, electricians, accountants and physios who make up Dee Why's professional strip, built for phone enquiries and jobs booked before the bus arrives.

  • Quote request form
  • Service area pages
  • Click-to-call button
  • Mobile-first layout
Property & Rentals Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks

For real estate agents and property managers working the Northern Beaches rental market, with listings, inspection times and enquiries handled in one place.

  • Searchable listings
  • Inspection booking calendar
  • Agent profile pages
  • Enquiry-to-lead forms
Café & Retail Storefront
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For the cafes, surf shops and dive operators along Pittwater Road selling to a young, phone-first crowd that decides before it walks in the door.

  • Online ordering or click-collect
  • Google Maps and trading hours
  • Instagram feed integration
  • One-tap mobile checkout

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Why FindDevs in Dee Why

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Dee Why 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 Dee Why's actual customers.

The median age in Dee Why 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

Dee Why questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward trade or professional services site, the kind an electrician or accountant needs, runs $3,000 – $8,000. A café or retail storefront with online ordering sits at $3,500 – $9,500. A property portal with listings and inspection bookings, the kind a real estate agency needs, runs $4,500 – $12,000. FindDevs gets you three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before committing.
The developers matched to your project are Australian and vetted before they see your brief, but they are not necessarily based in Dee Why or anywhere on the Northern Beaches. What matters is that they have built the kind of site you need, whether that is a trade site, a retail storefront or a booking portal, and that they understand a fast-moving beachside customer. You get three fixed-price quotes to compare, and you choose who does the work.
Timeframes depend on scope. A trade or professional services site is usually 2–4 weeks. A café or retail storefront with ordering built in takes 3–5 weeks. A property portal with listings and inspection booking, which needs more back-end work, takes 4–8 weeks. You get a fixed timeframe with your quote, not a moving target, because a site build should not run longer than the season it is meant to catch.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Professional, scientific & technical services
7,390 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
5,861 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
3,970 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
2,195 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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