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Sunshine Coast, Queensland

The Sunshine Coast's working centre, not just its beach.

Maroochydore is the Sunshine Coast's commercial centre, not a satellite of it, and the numbers back that up: 20,629 people, a median age of 47, and household income of $1,360 a week, both healthy for a coastal city this size. Sunshine Plaza and the professional offices around it carry the daily trade, while construction leads the wider Sunshine Coast council area with 8,376 businesses, feeding the units and commercial fit-outs still rising around the river mouth. This is a settled market with money to spend, built on trade and property rather than a young population still finding its feet.

'We're flat out already, why would we need a website' is what plenty of Maroochydore tradies will tell you, and construction is exactly why it's true for now: it's the largest single industry across the Sunshine Coast council area, and word of mouth is easy when everyone around you is renovating or building out. It won't stay that way. An estimated 2,340 businesses trade out of Maroochydore itself, competing for a population with a median age of 47 where 27.1% are over 65, people who research a builder, a physiotherapist, a mortgage broker or a real estate agent online long before they pick up the phone. A retiree pricing a bathroom renovation looks at the website before the ute. The businesses still running on a number scrawled on a signwritten door are handing the next job to whoever bothered to rank.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Maroochydore market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
20,629
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age47
  • Aged 65+27.1%
  • Under 2521.1%
  • Median household income$1,360/wk
  • Median rent$410/wk
The business scene
~2,340
businesses in Maroochydore (estimated*)
  • Sunshine Coast total39,239
  • Solo / non-employing23,573
  • 1–4 staff10,973
  • 5–19 staff3,703
  • 20+ staff990

88% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Sunshine Coast (2025)
  • Construction8,376
  • Professional, scientific & technical services5,346
  • Rental, hiring & real estate4,953
  • Health care & social assistance3,645
  • Retail trade2,341
  • Other services2,144

*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 Maroochydore businesses actually build.

Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.

Trade & Professional Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks

A straightforward site for builders, electricians, mortgage brokers or accountants: services, service area, contact form and enough proof of past work to get the phone to ring.

  • Services and pricing guide clearly laid out
  • Click-to-call and enquiry form
  • Photos or case studies of past jobs
  • Local SEO for Maroochydore searches
Health & Allied Care Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks

Online booking for a physio, dentist or allied health clinic, built for a market where more than a quarter of residents are over 65 and want big, obvious buttons, not a scroll animation.

  • Online booking and appointment reminders
  • Large type and high-contrast layout
  • Practitioner bios and services list
  • Mobile-first for one-handed booking
Retail & Boutique Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
2–4 weeks

A shopfront site for retailers around Sunshine Plaza and the surrounding strip: stock or range on display, trading hours front and centre, and a map that gets shoppers through the door.

  • Product or range showcase
  • Trading hours and location map
  • Mobile-friendly browsing and search
  • Local SEO for Sunshine Coast shoppers

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Why FindDevs in Maroochydore

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Maroochydore 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 Maroochydore's actual customers.

The median age in Maroochydore 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

Maroochydore questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward trade or professional site runs $3,000 - $8,000. A booking-enabled site for a clinic or allied health practice, with appointments and reminders built in, runs $4,500 - $12,000. A retail site showing off a range and driving foot traffic to a shop near Sunshine Plaza sits around $3,500 - $9,500. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers who quote against your actual brief, so you get a fixed price within 24 hours rather than a ballpark.
No, and that's the point. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on the brief, not the postcode, so you're comparing developers on skill and price rather than whoever happens to have an office nearby. You get three fixed-price quotes within 24 hours, review what each developer proposes, and pick who fits. All work is handled remotely with regular check-ins, which suits a spread-out coastal suburb as well as it suits anywhere else.
Most builds land in 2-5 weeks depending on scope, from a simple trade site through to a booking-enabled clinic build. Worth planning for either way: Maroochydore's median age is 47, and 27.1% of residents are over 65, so a site that relies on small type, low contrast or a lot of scrolling loses customers who would otherwise call. The developers we match build for readability and speed first, with the animation and extras kept to what actually helps a sale, not what looks good in a portfolio.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Construction
8,376 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
5,346 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
4,953 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
3,645 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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