Who lives here
18,643
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age45
- Aged 65+23.3%
- Under 2522.7%
- Median household income$1,188/wk
- Median rent$380/wk
Gold Coast, Queensland
A Gold Coast suburb built on residents, not tourists.
Labrador sits on the Broadwater side of the Gold Coast, a residential suburb of 18,643 people that has always run on its own steam rather than the tourist strip further south. The median age here is 45, older than most of the coast, and this is a suburb of settled households rather than short-stay renters. An estimated 2,450 businesses operate in Labrador itself. Zoom out to the Gold Coast council area and construction dominates everything else, with 15,355 businesses across the region building, renovating and fitting out for a living.
Ask a Labrador business why it has never bothered with a proper website and the answer is usually some version of everyone around here already knows us. Maybe so, back when the suburb was a few streets of local trade, but 18,643 people is a lot of strangers, and most of them now search before they ask around. A builder working the renovation boom, a physio treating an ageing client base, a boat mechanic on the Broadwater or a letting agent managing rentals for absent owners are all competing for people who have never met them, and will not until they click through. A website that loads fast, shows the phone number without scrolling, and answers the obvious question, is this business even open, is worth more here than another Facebook post nobody sees.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Labrador market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Labrador itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Gold Coast area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~2,450
businesses in Labrador (estimated*)
- Gold Coast total83,266
- Solo / non-employing52,343
- 1–4 staff21,663
- 5–19 staff7,072
- 20+ staff2,188
89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Gold Coast (2025)
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Construction15,355
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Rental, hiring & real estate12,135
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Professional, scientific & technical services11,181
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Health care & social assistance6,713
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Transport, postal & warehousing5,633
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Retail trade5,079
*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 Labrador 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 quote-request site for builders, renovators and trades working the Gold Coast's construction boom, built to turn job photos and phone calls into new leads.
- Instant online quote form
- Photo gallery of past jobs
- Google Business Profile link
- Click-to-call on every page
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $10,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks
An online booking site for physios, podiatrists and aged-care providers, built with the large type and clear layout an older Labrador client base actually needs.
- Online appointment booking
- Large-type accessible design
- Practitioner profile pages
- Patient intake forms
Property & Letting Portal
Typical price
$5,000 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
A listings and enquiry portal for property managers and letting agents handling rentals for owners who live elsewhere, built to cut down the back-and-forth calls.
- Vacancy listings with search
- Owner and tenant portals
- Enquiry and application forms
- Automatic listing updates
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Why FindDevs in Labrador
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Labrador 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 Labrador's actual customers.
The median age in Labrador is 45. 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
Labrador questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward site for a builder or trade business, quote form, job gallery, service area, runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. Add online booking, for a physio or allied health clinic, and you are looking at $4,500 – $10,000 over 3–5 weeks. A full portal, for property managers or letting agents handling listings and enquiries, runs $5,000 – $12,000 and 4–6 weeks. Every quote is fixed-price, agreed before work starts, so there are no surprises partway through.
FindDevs is not a Labrador agency and does not claim local staff or an office nearby. Instead, you get matched with three vetted Australian developers suited to your brief, each of whom sends back a fixed-price quote within 24 hours. You compare the three, pick the one whose approach and price you prefer, and the work starts from there. Because the developers are matched to the project rather than the postcode, you are not limited to whoever happens to have a shopfront on the Gold Coast.
Word of mouth still matters in a suburb like Labrador, but 18,643 people is well past the point where everyone knows everyone. A lot of the people searching for a builder, a physio or a letting agent right now have never heard of you, and they are deciding between whoever shows up on their phone. A fast, clear website with your phone number visible and your services spelled out turns those searches into calls, on top of whatever word of mouth is already sending you work.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Labrador 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 Labrador, by registered businesses in Gold Coast. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
15,355
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
12,135
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
11,181
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
6,713
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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