Who lives here
14,890
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age34
- Aged 65+11.7%
- Under 2536.2%
- Median household income$1,274/wk
- Median rent$346/wk
Hume, Victoria
A young, working suburb that hasn't caught up online yet.
Meadow Heights sits inside the Hume growth corridor on Melbourne's northern fringe, where freight and building trades do the heavy lifting for the whole region. Transport, postal and warehousing is the largest industry across the Hume council area, with 7,078 businesses, a reflection of the freight yards and distribution sheds strung along the Hume Freeway. Construction follows at 5,894, the arithmetic of a council still putting up new estates rather than one that finished decades ago. Meadow Heights itself holds 14,890 people, a young and working population with a median age of 34.
A suburb of almost fifteen thousand people produces a steady run of searches for a mechanic, an electrician, a real estate agent or a physio, and plenty of the businesses answering them still run on a Facebook page or nothing at all, easy to miss unless someone already knows the name. With 36.2% of Meadow Heights under 25 and only 11.7% over 65, most of that searching happens fast, on a phone, comparing two or three results before anyone picks up the keys. Household income here is $1,274 a week, modest by Melbourne's standards, so the site that wins is the one that loads fast and quotes honestly, not the one with the flashiest homepage, and ranking quietly beats word of mouth because word of mouth only reaches people who already know you.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Meadow Heights market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Meadow Heights itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Hume area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~1,720
businesses in Meadow Heights (estimated*)
- Hume total28,471
- Solo / non-employing20,738
- 1–4 staff5,445
- 5–19 staff1,686
- 20+ staff602
92% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Hume (2025)
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Transport, postal & warehousing7,078
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Construction5,894
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Rental, hiring & real estate2,050
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Professional, scientific & technical services1,845
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Retail trade1,690
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Health care & social assistance1,690
*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 Meadow Heights businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Service Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Built for the tradies and operators riding Hume's construction and freight boom: electricians, mechanics, plumbers and cleaners who need to be found before the next Google ad.
- Mobile-first quote and booking forms
- Google Business Profile and local SEO
- Service area pages for nearby suburbs
- Click-to-call and job photo gallery
Retail & Shopfront Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For the shops, takeaways and services along Meadow Heights' strips that still rely on foot traffic, a site that keeps trading after the doors close and shows up in a phone search.
- Online menu, catalogue or price list
- Click and collect or booking form
- Fast loading on mobile data
- Local SEO for near me searches
Property & Booking Platform
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
For real estate agents, property managers and clinics working a council built on rental, hiring and professional services, with listings, inquiries and bookings that convert.
- Property or listings search page
- Inquiry and appointment forms
- Secure client portal or uploads
- CRM or booking software integration
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Why FindDevs in Meadow Heights
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Meadow Heights 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 Meadow Heights's actual customers.
The median age in Meadow Heights is 34. 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
Meadow Heights questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade or service site, the kind a plumber, electrician or mechanic needs, typically runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. A retail or shopfront site with a catalogue or booking form sits at $3,500 – $9,500 over 3–5 weeks. A property or professional services platform, the kind a real estate agent or clinic needs, with listings, portals or online payments, runs $4,500 – $12,000 over 4–6 weeks. We send three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before committing to anything.
Not necessarily, and we will not pretend otherwise. FindDevs matches you with vetted Australian developers based on your brief, not your postcode. What they bring is experience building for suburbs like this one: a young population, phone-first customers, and businesses competing against the transport, construction and retail trades that dominate the Hume area. You brief them on your customers and your competitors, and they build for that, wherever they happen to be based.
You describe the job and we return three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, with no obligation to pick any of them. Most trade and service sites take 2–4 weeks to build once you choose a developer, retail sites 3–5 weeks, and property or booking platforms with extra functionality 4–6 weeks. You are not stuck waiting weeks just to find out what the job will cost.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Meadow Heights 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 Meadow Heights, by registered businesses in Hume. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
5,894
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
2,050
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
1,845
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Retail trade
1,690
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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