Who lives here
7,904
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age52
- Aged 65+32.3%
- Under 2522.7%
- Median household income$1,572/wk
- Median rent$478/wk
Kiama, New South Wales
A coastal town built by tradies, not tourists.
Kiama is older than the Illawarra average and richer for it. Population is 7,904, median age 52, and household income runs to $1,572 a week, comfortable rather than stretched. The economy leans into that comfort: construction leads the Kiama council area with 489 businesses, more real estate and building work than a beach town of this size usually carries, plainer evidence of a place still adding houses rather than just holidaying in the ones it already has. This is not a town living off day-trippers alone.
Picture the ten minutes before someone in Kiama calls a builder. They open two or three websites, check whether the page loads on a patchy signal near Bombo, look for photos of finished work, and see if a phone number sits in the header. Construction is the industry the whole council area runs on, and every one of those searches ends in a call or it ends in nothing. Kiama skews older than most coastal towns, 32.3% of residents are over 65, and that changes the brief: big legible type, obvious pricing and a number you can find without hunting beat a clever animated hero every time. A builder, an electrician, a physio or a real estate agent competing for a share of the 760 businesses trading in Kiama are selling the same first impression before anyone gets a quote.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Kiama brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Kiama market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Kiama itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Kiama area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~760
businesses in Kiama (estimated*)
- Kiama total2,211
- Solo / non-employing1,282
- 1–4 staff695
- 5–19 staff189
- 20+ staff45
89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Kiama (2025)
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Construction489
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Professional, scientific & technical services333
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Rental, hiring & real estate244
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Health care & social assistance216
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing135
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Retail trade135
*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 Kiama businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Construction Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
A mobile-first site for builders and trades: a quote request form, a gallery of finished jobs, and a phone number nobody has to hunt for.
- Photo gallery of finished jobs
- Quote request form
- Click-to-call phone number
- Local SEO for tradie searches
Rental & Property Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
A searchable listings site for real estate and rental businesses, built to turn a browse into a booked inspection or a signed lease.
- Searchable property listings
- Enquiry and booking forms
- Agent profile pages
- Map-based suburb search
Health & Professional Practice Site
Typical price
$3,800 – $9,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks
An appointment-ready site for clinics and professional practices, built for patients and clients who want to book online instead of calling.
- Online appointment booking
- Practitioner profile pages
- Services and pricing pages
- Maps and directions
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Why FindDevs in Kiama
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 Kiama's actual customers.
With a median age of 52 and 32.3% of locals over 65, we match developers who design for readability, fast regional connections and easy booking, not design-award vanity.
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
Kiama questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or service site for a builder or electrician typically runs $3,000 - $8,000. A rental or real estate listings site with search and booking runs $4,500 - $12,000. A clinic or professional practice site with online appointments runs $3,800 - $9,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before committing to anything.
Not necessarily. FindDevs matches your brief to three vetted Australian developers, and the right fit for a Kiama trade site or a rental listings platform might be working from Sydney, Wollongong or anywhere else in the country. What you get is a developer suited to the job, not a local office. Every quote is fixed-price, so there's no surprise invoice once the site's underway, wherever the developer happens to be sitting.
Send through a brief describing what the site needs to do, whether that's a booking system for a clinic, a listings page for a rental business or a simple quote form for a trade. Three vetted Australian developers will each price it against that brief, and you'll have three fixed-price quotes back within 24 hours. From there, the build itself typically takes 2-6 weeks depending on the project.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Kiama 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 Kiama, by registered businesses in Kiama. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
489
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
333
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
244
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
216
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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