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Sutherland Shire, New South Wales

A quiet river suburb with bigger-city money.

Illawong sits on a bend of the Georges River in Sutherland Shire, and the numbers behind it don't match the postcode's low profile. Sutherland Shire's economy runs on construction, 5,118 businesses across the council area, more than any other sector. The suburb itself carries 7,427 people with a median age of 44, and a household income of $2,778 a week that puts real money behind whatever gets built or renovated. This isn't a suburb chasing volume; it's one with the means to pay properly for the work.

You'd expect a household income of $2,778 a week to sit inside a much bigger population. Illawong doesn't carry the numbers to match that assumption: just 7,427 people spread along a bend of the Georges River, which means every trade, consultant and clinic here is working a small, well-paid catchment rather than a sprawling one. With 30.1% of the suburb under 25 against 20.1% aged 65 and over, a site has to work for a teenager booking a physio appointment on a phone and a retiree ringing a builder direct. A plumber, an accountant, a physiotherapist or a real estate agent here isn't fighting for attention on a crowded strip; they're trying to be the obvious choice for a small pool of people who already have the money to say yes. A website that looks the part is what turns that trust into a booked job before someone scrolls to the next name.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Illawong market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
7,427
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age44
  • Aged 65+20.1%
  • Under 2530.1%
  • Median household income$2,778/wk
  • Median rent$650/wk
The business scene
~760
businesses in Illawong (estimated*)
  • Sutherland Shire total23,556
  • Solo / non-employing13,308
  • 1–4 staff7,638
  • 5–19 staff2,130
  • 20+ staff480

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

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Sutherland Shire (2025)
  • Construction5,118
  • Professional, scientific & technical services3,753
  • Rental, hiring & real estate3,142
  • Health care & social assistance1,854
  • Retail trade1,283
  • Financial & insurance services1,266

*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 Illawong 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

A site for builders, electricians and renovators working Sutherland Shire's biggest sector: construction. Built to show finished jobs, take enquiries and rank for suburb-specific searches.

  • Photo-led gallery of finished jobs
  • Quote request form, no phone tag
  • Mobile-first for on-site browsing
  • Local SEO for trade + suburb searches
Clinic & Consultant Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks

For allied health practices, accountants and property managers who need clients to book or enquire online without a phone call. Includes calendar sync and automatic confirmations.

  • Online booking or enquiry calendar
  • Automated confirmation emails
  • Client portal or document upload
  • Built for repeat, not one-off, visits
Retail & Local Shopfront Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For shops and hospitality operators serving the local streets around Illawong, showing current stock, hours and specials without a five-year-old template holding the business back.

  • Product or menu pages that update easily
  • Trading hours and location up front
  • Mobile checkout or click-and-collect
  • Social feed integration for specials

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Why FindDevs in Illawong

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

In a town of ~760 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 Illawong's actual customers.

The median age in Illawong is 44. 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

Illawong questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward trade or service site, the kind a builder or electrician needs, runs $3,000 - $8,000 and takes 2-4 weeks. A retail or hospitality shopfront site sits at $3,500 - $9,500 over 3-5 weeks. Anything with online booking or a client portal, the sort of build a clinic, accountant or property manager needs, runs $4,500 - $12,000 across 4-8 weeks. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers who quote against your actual brief, so the number you get is specific to the job, not a generic package price.
FindDevs doesn't run an office in Illawong, and for building a website that barely matters. Developers are vetted Australian professionals matched to your brief rather than your postcode, and most of the process, brief, quotes, drafts and revisions, happens over email and video call anyway. With an estimated 760 businesses in Illawong itself, most of the local work already gets done exactly that way, without anyone needing to visit in person to get a builder, physiotherapist or accountant a website that works.
Illawong's household income is $2,778 a week, one of the stronger figures in Sutherland Shire, and 20.1% of locals are aged 65 and over against 30.1% under 25. A good site here works two ways at once: clean and legible enough for an older customer who wants a phone number and clear pricing on the page, and fast enough on a phone for a younger one who books everything through a form late at night. A slow, cluttered site loses both groups before they ever call.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Construction
5,118 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
3,753 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
3,142 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
1,854 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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