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Tweed, New South Wales

A beach town in summer, a construction economy the rest of the year.

Kingscliff runs two economies at once: a beach town that swells with holidaymakers every summer, and a fast-growing corner of the Tweed still being built out from the inside. Construction leads the Tweed council area with 2,094 businesses, more than any other sector, and that boom is what actually pays the wages here. The town itself carries an estimated 780 local businesses, and the money behind them is solid: median household income is $1,575 a week. At 47, the median age is high for a place this close to the surf, old enough that a site built for backpackers will miss most of the people who actually spend money here.

Plenty of Kingscliff operators will tell you the beach brings enough foot traffic without a proper website, and in January that might even be true. It stops being true the rest of the year: only 8,355 people live here full-time, not enough to keep a shopfront's diary full once the holiday crowds go home, so the customers a business actually needs are outside the town, searching before they arrive rather than wandering past. A surf coach, a physio, a real estate agent working the rental market and a cafe owner all depend on being found by someone who isn't standing on the beach that afternoon. Median family income is $2,051 a week, and 25.5% of residents are 65 or older, so whatever gets built also has to be plain and easy to read, not clever. A fast, well-built site is the only sales rep that keeps working after the car parks empty out in June.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Kingscliff market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
8,355
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age47
  • Aged 65+25.5%
  • Under 2526.7%
  • Median household income$1,575/wk
  • Median rent$490/wk
The business scene
~780
businesses in Kingscliff (estimated*)
  • Tweed total9,130
  • Solo / non-employing5,584
  • 1–4 staff2,541
  • 5–19 staff838
  • 20+ staff167

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

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Tweed (2025)
  • Construction2,094
  • Professional, scientific & technical services1,129
  • Rental, hiring & real estate876
  • Health care & social assistance771
  • Retail trade624
  • Agriculture, forestry & fishing562

*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 Kingscliff 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

Built for builders, tilers, electricians and sparkies riding the Tweed's construction boom, with quote forms and a phone number visitors can actually find.

  • Mobile-friendly quote request form
  • Project photo galleries
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • Fast loads on regional 4G
Rental & Real Estate Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks

A searchable listings site for holiday lets, long-term rentals and sales, built to handle the traffic spike that hits every school holidays without falling over.

  • Searchable property listings
  • Enquiry and booking forms
  • Owner and agent login area
  • Handles peak season traffic
Cafe & Retail Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For the cafes, boutiques and beachside shops trading on tourists in summer and locals the rest of the year, with menus, hours and ordering that just works.

  • Online ordering and menus
  • Trading hours shown upfront
  • Mobile-first design
  • Local SEO for near me searches

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Why FindDevs in Kingscliff

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

In a town of ~780 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 Kingscliff's actual customers.

The median age in Kingscliff is 47. 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

Kingscliff questions.

It depends on what you need. A trade or service site for a builder or tiler usually runs $3,000 – $8,000. A cafe, shop or hospitality site sits at $3,500 – $9,500. A rental or real estate portal with listings and booking forms runs $4,500 – $12,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers within 24 hours, so you're comparing real numbers before you commit to anything.
Yes, and it matters more than the summer trade does. Only 8,355 people live in Kingscliff full-time, which isn't enough to fill a diary once the holiday crowds leave, so the customers worth chasing are the ones searching online before they ever drive down. A site with proper local SEO keeps showing up in those searches through winter, when foot traffic off the beach has dried up and word of mouth alone won't carry a business through to the next season.
Not necessarily, and that's by design. FindDevs matches your project to three vetted Australian developers based on the brief itself, not their postcode, so you get people with the right skills for a rental portal, a trade site or an online ordering system rather than whoever happens to have an office on the Tweed Coast. All three quote fixed prices within 24 hours, and you pick the one that fits.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Construction
2,094 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
1,129 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
876 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
771 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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