Who lives here
7,780
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age26
- Aged 65+8.8%
- Under 2545.7%
- Median household income$2,025/wk
- Median rent$360/wk
Townsville, Queensland
The suburb where almost half the population is under 25.
Douglas is young for a Queensland suburb: the median age is 26, and 45.7% of the 7,780 people counted at the last census are under 25. Normally that skews toward lower incomes, share houses and renters passing through on their way to somewhere else. Douglas doesn't fit that pattern. Household income runs to $2,025 a week, well above what a suburb this young usually clears, and it says something about the kind of work locals are doing rather than just moving through. This is a suburb of people earning properly while they're still young, not one filling up with students on a budget.
Take a mortgage broker working out of Douglas, one of the suburb's 520 businesses, competing for every lead against every other broker in Townsville. Right now his marketing is a Facebook page and whatever an agent remembers to mention. Rental, hiring and real estate runs to 1,430 businesses across the Townsville council area, so a broker here is up against agents, lenders and comparison sites the moment someone searches for a home loan. Douglas skews young, 45.7% of residents are under 25, and that generation doesn't ring a number off a shopfront window. It searches, compares three results and picks whoever looks like they know the job. A website that ranks and loads properly on a phone is the difference between getting the call and never being asked.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Douglas brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Douglas market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Douglas itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Townsville area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~520
businesses in Douglas (estimated*)
- Townsville total13,122
- Solo / non-employing7,408
- 1–4 staff3,547
- 5–19 staff1,664
- 20+ staff503
83% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Townsville (2025)
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Construction2,529
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Health care & social assistance1,546
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Rental, hiring & real estate1,430
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Professional, scientific & technical services1,373
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Transport, postal & warehousing1,045
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Other services1,037
*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 Douglas businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Construction Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Built for tradies, builders and service businesses competing for jobs across Townsville: quote requests, service-area pages and a gallery that proves the work speaks for itself.
- Quote request form
- Service area pages
- Before/after gallery
- Mobile-first design
Health & Allied Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
3–6 weeks
For GPs, allied health and specialist practices booking appointments instead of chasing them by phone, with intake forms and reminders that cut no-shows.
- Online appointment booking
- Practitioner profile pages
- Patient intake forms
- SMS/email reminders
Property & Real Estate Portal
Typical price
$4,000 – $10,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For agents and property managers listing rentals and sales across Townsville, with search, filters and enquiry forms that turn browsers into appraisal requests.
- Property listing search
- Agent profile pages
- Enquiry & appraisal forms
- Map-based property search
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Why FindDevs in Douglas
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
In a town of ~520 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 Douglas's actual customers.
The median age in Douglas is 26. 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
Douglas questions.
It depends on what you need. A trade or service site for a builder, electrician or similar tradie generally runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. A health or allied health practice wanting online bookings and intake forms sits at $4,500 – $12,000 over 3–6 weeks. A property or real estate portal with listings and search is typically $4,000 – $10,000 across 3–5 weeks. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, so you're comparing real numbers, not estimates.
No. FindDevs matches Douglas businesses with vetted Australian developers based on the brief, not the postcode. What matters is whether the developer has built the type of site you need, a booking system for a clinic or a listings portal for a property manager, not whether they can drive past your office. Every developer is Australian, every quote is fixed-price, and you deal with your chosen developer directly once you've picked from the three you're matched with.
Yes. 45.7% of Douglas residents are under 25, and that age group does almost everything on a phone: searching, comparing, booking. A site built for them needs to load fast on mobile data, let someone book or enquire in a couple of taps, and rank for the exact phrases they're typing rather than relying on a passer-by noticing a sign out the front. Slow, desktop-first sites lose this audience before the page even finishes loading.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Douglas 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 Douglas, by registered businesses in Townsville. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
2,529
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
1,546
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
1,430
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
1,373
local businesses
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