Who lives here
17,131
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age34
- Aged 65+11%
- Under 2521.6%
- Median household income$1,763/wk
- Median rent$355/wk
Maribyrnong, Victoria
Footscray runs on freight by day, Nicholson Street's markets by night.
Footscray sits where freight leaving the Port of Melbourne meets a suburb rebuilding itself around a university campus and a produce market that's traded for generations. Transport, postal and warehousing is the largest industry across the Maribyrnong council area at 1,367 businesses, and the depots and yards near the West Gate are the reason. But Footscray itself is no longer just a freight yard: 17,131 people live here now, the median age is 34, and household income runs to $1,763 a week, enough to support more than a servicing economy. It has one foot in logistics and the other in a genuinely mixed, increasingly professional population.
"The bakery's done fine on regulars and a sign for twenty years" is what plenty of Nicholson Street operators would say if you asked why there's no website, and it used to be true. But 21.6% of Footscray is under 25, students walking up from Victoria University and young renters filling the new blocks along the river, and that crowd doesn't walk past looking for a sign, it searches from the train platform before it picks an exit. A butcher, a physio, a Vietnamese bakery or a driving instructor near the station is competing for a search result now, not a footpath. Professional, scientific and technical services already counts 1,248 businesses across Maribyrnong, close behind transport and warehousing, which says plenty about who is now paying for a website instead of guessing.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Footscray market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Footscray itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Maribyrnong area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~1,820
businesses in Footscray (estimated*)
- Maribyrnong total9,194
- Solo / non-employing6,326
- 1–4 staff1,945
- 5–19 staff711
- 20+ staff212
90% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Maribyrnong (2025)
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Transport, postal & warehousing1,367
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Professional, scientific & technical services1,248
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Construction1,033
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Rental, hiring & real estate938
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Health care & social assistance835
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Retail trade781
*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 Footscray businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Service Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
For the builders, electricians, physios and mechanics working construction and health care around Maribyrnong. A fast site with a click-to-call number and a quote form that actually gets checked.
- Click-to-call phone number
- Service area and suburb list
- Before and after job gallery
- Quote request form
Retail & Hospitality Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For the grocers, bakeries and restaurants along Nicholson and Hopkins Street, where most trade still walks past the door and the site just needs to back that up online.
- Menu or product listing
- Opening hours up front
- Google Maps and directions
- Mobile-first design
Booking & Client Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For clinics, consultants and agents in professional, scientific and technical services around Maribyrnong, where residents now book everything, GP visits included, from their phone.
- Online appointment booking
- Client login or intake form
- Automated confirmation emails
- Real-time availability calendar
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Why FindDevs in Footscray
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Footscray 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 Footscray's actual customers.
The median age in Footscray is 34. 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
Footscray questions.
It depends on what you need. A trade or service site for a builder, physio or mechanic runs $3,000 – $8,000. A retail or hospitality site for a grocer, bakery or restaurant along Nicholson or Hopkins Street runs $3,500 – $9,500. A booking system or client portal for a clinic or consultancy runs $4,500 – $12,000. Every quote is fixed-price and comes from three vetted Australian developers within 24 hours of the brief, so you know the number before you commit to anything.
Build time runs 2–4 weeks for a straightforward trade or service site, 3–5 weeks for a retail or hospitality build with a menu or product catalogue, and 4–6 weeks for a booking system or client portal with logins and calendars. The quote itself comes back within 24 hours of sending a brief, so the slow part was never the pricing, it's the build, and that timeline holds whether you're near the market or out past the freeway.
Not necessarily, and we wouldn't claim otherwise. FindDevs matches your brief to three vetted Australian developers based on the skills the job needs, not their postcode. For a Footscray business that means a developer who understands a mobile-first, multilingual audience and a young population searching from their phone, whether they're working from Melbourne's inner west or interstate.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Footscray 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.
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Your industry
Developers who have built for your trade before.
The biggest employers around Footscray, by registered businesses in Maribyrnong. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Professional, scientific & technical services
1,248
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
1,033
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
938
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
835
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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