Who lives here
8,305
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age30
- Aged 65+4%
- Under 2524.6%
- Median household income$1,931/wk
- Median rent$650/wk
Sydney, New South Wales
Sydney's busiest few blocks, and one of its youngest postcodes.
Haymarket is Sydney's Chinatown and the densest few blocks of restaurants, market stalls and student housing in the city, wedged between Darling Harbour and Central. An estimated 3,300 businesses trade out of the suburb itself, most of them food, retail and small trade rather than office towers. Professional, scientific and technical services lead business count across the Sydney council area, 18,661 firms, more than any other sector the Bureau tracks here, which says more about the office blocks ringing the suburb than about Haymarket's own shopfronts. Population here is 8,305, median age 30, one of the youngest inner-city postcodes in the state.
'Everyone already walks past the shop' is the reason plenty of Haymarket's 3,300 traders never got a website built, and in a strip this dense with foot traffic it used to hold up. It stops holding up when the customer is choosing between five near-identical restaurants on the same block, or searching from a hotel room two streets over before they have walked past anyone. Under 25s make up 24.6% of the local population, students and young workers who compare on their phone before they compare on foot. A restaurant owner competing for the dinner crowd, an accountant handling professional trade from the CBD towers, and a real estate agent leasing the constant apartment turnover all need to be found in that search, not just walked past. A fast, well-priced website is the cheapest way to win a customer who was never going to wander in.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Haymarket brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Haymarket market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Haymarket itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Sydney area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~3,300
businesses in Haymarket (estimated*)
- Sydney total85,193
- Solo / non-employing54,691
- 1–4 staff19,007
- 5–19 staff7,632
- 20+ staff3,863
87% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Sydney (2025)
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Professional, scientific & technical services18,661
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Financial & insurance services14,993
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Rental, hiring & real estate14,809
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Construction5,943
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Accommodation & food services4,280
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Retail trade4,237
*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 Haymarket businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Restaurant & Café Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
Built for Haymarket's dinner crowd and the tourists two streets over: menu, hours, location and online ordering that loads fast on a phone.
- Mobile-first menu and hours
- Maps and transit directions
- Online ordering or booking link
- Multilingual copy on request
Professional Services Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
For the accountants, migration agents and tax agents working the CBD trade: a credible site that closes a client who compared three firms before lunch.
- Clear services and fee structure
- Booking or enquiry form
- Credentials and case studies
- Fast on office wifi and 4G
Property & Leasing Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For property managers handling constant apartment turnover near the towers: live listings, enquiry forms and inspection bookings that update fast.
- Live listings with search filters
- Inspection booking calendar
- Enquiry forms routed to agents
- Fast updates as stock turns over
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Why FindDevs in Haymarket
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Haymarket 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 Haymarket's actual customers.
The median age in Haymarket is 30. 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
Haymarket questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A restaurant or café site with online ordering runs $3,500 - $9,500. A professional services site for an accountant or agent runs $3,000 - $8,000. A property or leasing portal with live listings and booking runs $4,500 - $12,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers within 24 hours, so you know the number before you commit to anything.
It can help, but it isn't required to launch. Chinatown here draws a mix of long-term locals, students and tourists, and plenty of Haymarket sites do well in English with clear photos, a menu or price list, and a working phone number. If your customers regularly ask in Mandarin or Cantonese, we can brief the developer to build bilingual pages from the start rather than bolting on a translation plugin later, which usually reads as an afterthought and ranks worse in search.
No, and we wouldn't pretend otherwise. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on the brief, not the postcode, so the right fit for a Chinatown restaurant site or a CBD professional services build might be working from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. What matters is that they've built the type of site you need before and can quote it properly, not which suburb their desk sits in.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Haymarket 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 Haymarket, by registered businesses in Sydney. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Professional, scientific & technical services
18,661
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
14,809
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
5,943
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Accommodation & food services
4,280
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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