Who lives here
12,436
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age41
- Aged 65+17.3%
- Under 2531.4%
- Median household income$2,039/wk
- Median rent$430/wk
Brisbane, Queensland
A well-paid, family suburb with no high street of its own.
Manly West is a residential suburb of 12,436 people in the Brisbane City Council area, with median family income running to $2,394 a week, comfortably ahead of the city average. Professional, scientific and technical services is the biggest industry across Brisbane by business count, 26,208 firms, and Manly West's income profile matches that pattern: plenty of these streets house people who consult, design or advise for a living rather than sell things over a counter. An estimated 1,440 businesses operate in the suburb itself, built around a settled population of homeowners and families rather than any industry precinct of its own.
Manly West has no commercial strip of its own worth the name, which means a local business rarely gets found by someone walking past. Professional, scientific and technical services is the industry Brisbane runs on, and a lot of the suburb's own tradespeople and consultants work the same way: off-site, seeing clients elsewhere rather than behind a shopfront. A good website is the only shopfront a suburb like this will ever get, working around the clock whether the door's open or not. It ends up doing the job a window display would do somewhere else: showing the qualifications, listing what's on offer and settling the "why you" question before the phone rings. A conveyancer, a physio, an electrician or a landscape designer here are all judged on the same search results as everyone else within a twenty-minute drive, with no passing trade to fall back on.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Manly West market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Manly West itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Brisbane area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~1,440
businesses in Manly West (estimated*)
- Brisbane total145,916
- Solo / non-employing91,188
- 1–4 staff36,539
- 5–19 staff13,340
- 20+ staff4,849
88% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Brisbane (2025)
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Professional, scientific & technical services26,208
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Rental, hiring & real estate19,638
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Construction18,377
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Health care & social assistance15,180
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Transport, postal & warehousing12,139
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Financial & insurance services8,759
*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 Manly West businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Professional Services Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,000
Timeline
3–4 weeks
A credibility-first site for consultants, advisers and firms who see clients off-site: clear service pages, real qualifications and an enquiry form that pre-qualifies the job.
- Service and expertise pages
- Pre-qualifying enquiry form
- Mobile-first for off-site clients
- Local SEO for Manly West searches
Trade & Home Services Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Built for tradies working across the suburb rather than out of a shopfront: quote requests, service area pages and a phone number that's one tap away on any job site.
- Click-to-call and quote form
- Service area and suburb pages
- Before-and-after job gallery
- Google Business Profile setup
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
5–7 weeks
An online booking system for clinics and allied health practices, built to fill appointment gaps automatically and cut the no-shows a phone-only diary can't chase.
- Online appointment booking
- Practitioner profiles and bios
- Health fund and Medicare info
- Automated booking reminders
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Why FindDevs in Manly West
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Manly West 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 Manly West's actual customers.
The median age in Manly West is 41. 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
Manly West questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or service business is usually $3,000 – $8,000, a professional services site with proper credibility content runs $3,500 – $9,000, and a booking system for a clinic or similar is $4,500 – $12,000. FindDevs gets you three fixed quotes from vetted developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before you commit to anything.
No. FindDevs matches you with vetted Australian developers based on the brief, not their postcode. What matters for a suburb like Manly West, without a retail strip of its own, is a site built for search and mobile, since that's how almost every local customer finds a business here. You get three fixed-price quotes within 24 hours and pick whichever developer and price suits the job.
Most Manly West projects run 2–7 weeks depending on scope. A straightforward trade or service site is the fastest, usually 2–4 weeks. A professional services site with more content takes 3–4 weeks. A booking system for a clinic, with online scheduling and practitioner profiles, takes longest at 5–7 weeks. You'll get a specific timeline as part of your fixed quote, before any work starts.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Manly West 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 Manly West, by registered businesses in Brisbane. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Professional, scientific & technical services
26,208
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
19,638
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
18,377
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
15,180
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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