Who lives here
17,092
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age32
- Aged 65+10.5%
- Under 2535.5%
- Median household income$1,227/wk
- Median rent$350/wk
Canterbury-Bankstown, New South Wales
A suburb dense enough that every competitor is around the corner.
Lakemba is dense and young, and its economy runs on trade more than any single number suggests. Construction is the largest industry across Canterbury-Bankstown, with 9,869 businesses, and transport, postal and warehousing follows close behind at 8,738, freight and building work tracking the arterial roads that run through the area. Inside Lakemba itself, 35.5% of residents are under 25, and household income runs to $1,227 a week, a working suburb rather than a wealthy one, built around Haldon Street's grocers, butchers and restaurants rather than a business park.
With 17,092 people and roughly 2,020 businesses packed into a suburb small enough to walk end to end, everyone on Haldon Street is fishing from the same pond: butchers beside grocers beside driving schools, all within sight of each other. Before anyone actually picks up the phone to call a plumber, a halal butcher or a driving instructor, they are on their screen weighing up two or three names, checking for a real address, clear pricing and photos taken this year, not five years ago. The suburb skews young, and that generation searches from wherever it is standing, not from a sign in a window, and picks whoever answers first. A business that is not visible in that moment does not get the call, no matter how busy the shopfront looks.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Lakemba market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Lakemba itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Canterbury-Bankstown area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~2,020
businesses in Lakemba (estimated*)
- Canterbury-Bankstown total44,017
- Solo / non-employing28,205
- 1–4 staff12,633
- 5–19 staff2,547
- 20+ staff632
93% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Canterbury-Bankstown (2025)
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Construction9,869
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Transport, postal & warehousing8,738
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Professional, scientific & technical services3,870
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Rental, hiring & real estate3,760
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Retail trade2,810
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Health care & social assistance2,724
*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 Lakemba 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, electricians and other trades quoting jobs across a construction-heavy market, with a quote form, project gallery and click-to-call that works from a job site.
- Mobile-friendly quote form
- Job photo gallery
- Click-to-call on every page
- Google Business Profile setup
Retail & Grocer Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For the butchers, grocers and restaurants along Haldon Street competing for the same foot traffic, with menus or stock, opening hours and directions that load fast on a phone.
- Menu or product listings
- Opening hours up front
- Map and parking directions
- Current, well-lit photos
Professional Services Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For real estate agents, migration agents and other professional services booking appointments online, with secure enquiry forms and a client login that scales with case volume.
- Online appointment booking
- Secure enquiry forms
- Client login portal
- Mobile-first, fast load
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Why FindDevs in Lakemba
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Lakemba 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 Lakemba's actual customers.
The median age in Lakemba is 32. 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
Lakemba questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or service site for a builder or electrician runs $3,000–$8,000. A retail or hospitality site for a grocer, butcher or restaurant on Haldon Street runs $3,500–$9,500. A booking or client portal, the kind a real estate or migration agent needs, runs $4,500–$12,000. FindDevs matches you with three vetted developers who each quote against your actual brief, so the number you get back is fixed, not a guess dressed up as an estimate.
Most trade and retail sites take 2–5 weeks from brief to launch, depending on how much content, stock or menu information needs to go in. A booking system or client portal, with logins and secure forms, usually takes 4–6 weeks because there is more to test. Your developer gives you a fixed timeline as part of the quote, before any work starts, so you know exactly when the site goes live.
Not necessarily, and that is by design. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on your brief, not your postcode, so you get the right skill set for a construction quoting tool, a Haldon Street menu site or a booking portal, rather than whoever happens to have an office nearby. Everything happens online, and you compare three fixed-price quotes before committing to any of them.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Lakemba 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 Lakemba, by registered businesses in Canterbury-Bankstown. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
9,869
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
3,870
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
3,760
local businesses
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Retail trade
2,810
local businesses
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