Who lives here
12,023
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age32
- Aged 65+11.6%
- Under 2539%
- Median household income$1,711/wk
- Median rent$340/wk
Rockhampton, Queensland
The satellite town doing Rockhampton's industrial heavy lifting.
Gracemere sits on Rockhampton's western edge, where the highway trades cattle country for saleyards, quarries and an industrial estate. At 12,023 people, the suburb carries an estimated 830 businesses of its own, plenty for a town this size. Zoom out to the wider Rockhampton council area and construction is the dominant industry, 945 businesses, with agriculture, forestry and fishing close behind at 739, and Gracemere's trades exist largely to service that bigger machine.
Twelve thousand people is enough to support real trades and a proper main street, but it isn't enough to stop Rockhampton, ten minutes up the highway, from being the default comparison for anyone deciding where to spend money. Whether you're a concreter, a physio, a stock agent or a mortgage broker, the customer sizing you up usually has a Rockhampton competitor open in the next tab. Family income here runs to $1,847 a week, so there's money to pay a proper trade rate, and 39.0% of the population is under 25, which means most of that sizing-up happens on a phone before anyone picks up a landline. A fast, well-built website with proper local SEO is the cheapest way to keep that job in Gracemere instead of Rockhampton.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Gracemere market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Gracemere itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Rockhampton area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~830
businesses in Gracemere (estimated*)
- Rockhampton total5,723
- Solo / non-employing3,332
- 1–4 staff1,491
- 5–19 staff700
- 20+ staff200
84% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Rockhampton (2025)
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Construction945
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing739
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Rental, hiring & real estate554
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Health care & social assistance548
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Other services533
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Transport, postal & warehousing465
*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 Gracemere businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Contractor Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
For concreters, earthmovers, fencers and other trades working Rockhampton's construction and quarry sites, a site that shows finished jobs and takes a callback without a phone tag.
- Gallery of completed jobs
- Click-to-call and quote form
- Mobile-first for site visits
- Google Business Profile setup
Rural Supplier & Retail Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For produce stores, stockfeed suppliers and ag retailers serving the properties around Gracemere, a catalogue site that lists stock, prices and trading hours properly.
- Product and stock listings
- Trading hours and location map
- Click-and-collect enquiry form
- Mobile-friendly product search
Clinic & Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For physios, GPs and allied health providers, an online booking system with service pages and intake forms so a new patient can book without ringing during opening hours.
- Online appointment booking
- Service and pricing pages
- Patient intake forms
- SMS/email booking reminders
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Why FindDevs in Gracemere
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Gracemere 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 Gracemere's actual customers.
The median age in Gracemere is 32. 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
Gracemere questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or contractor site with a job gallery and quote form runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. A retail or rural supplier site with stock listings and trading hours runs $3,500 – $9,500 over 3–5 weeks. A clinic or booking site with online appointments and intake forms runs $4,500 – $12,000 over 4–6 weeks. FindDevs gets you three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, so you're comparing real numbers, not a rough guess.
Most Gracemere jobs land in the 2 to 6 week range depending on scope. A straightforward trade or contractor site with a gallery and quote form is usually the fastest, 2–4 weeks. Anything with online bookings, stock listings or a search function, like a clinic or a retail site, needs more build and testing time, closer to 4–6 weeks. You'll get a firm timeline in the quote itself, not an estimate that slips once the invoice is paid.
Not necessarily, and that's by design. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on what your project needs, not where they live. What matters more than local knowledge is a proper brief: who your customer is, what they search for, and whether they're comparing you to a business in Gracemere or one in Rockhampton ten minutes up the highway. The site gets shaped by that information, not by a developer's postcode, and that information comes from you.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Gracemere 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 Gracemere, by registered businesses in Rockhampton. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
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