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Sutherland Shire, New South Wales

Where trades and consultants both do very nicely.

Sutherland Shire's construction industry leads every sector with 5,118 businesses, and professional, scientific and technical services follow at 3,753, engineers and consultants working the same commute as the tradies. Menai itself holds 10,419 people, set against bushland reserves within the shire, and the money backing that population is real: household income runs $2,575 a week, well past what one wage supports. This is not a suburb full of side businesses run out of necessity. It's professionals and tradespeople doing steady, well-paid work, plenty of them running the business rather than clocking on for someone else.

A third of Menai is under 25, and the median age is 39, an age profile where almost nobody in the house has ever rung a business to check if it is open. This household searches on a phone, compares two or three results and books whichever site loads fastest and actually shows a price. Too many businesses already trading here are still running a Facebook page last updated at Christmas, or a desktop-era website nobody has touched since it was built, both invisible the moment the search happens from the car on the school run. A plumber, a physio, a mortgage broker or a landscaper competing for that attention needs a site that opens fast on 4G, states its hours without a click and takes a booking before the moment passes. A site that cannot take that booking at nine at night from a phone in the driveway is turning away money it has already earned.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Menai market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
10,419
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age39
  • Aged 65+13.7%
  • Under 2533.5%
  • Median household income$2,575/wk
  • Median rent$560/wk
The business scene
~1,060
businesses in Menai (estimated*)
  • Sutherland Shire total23,556
  • Solo / non-employing13,308
  • 1–4 staff7,638
  • 5–19 staff2,130
  • 20+ staff480

89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Sutherland Shire (2025)
  • Construction5,118
  • Professional, scientific & technical services3,753
  • Rental, hiring & real estate3,142
  • Health care & social assistance1,854
  • Retail trade1,283
  • Financial & insurance services1,266

*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 Menai 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

For builders, plumbers, electricians and landscapers working across Sutherland Shire, a site that turns a phone search into a job booked, not just a number nobody answers.

  • Job enquiry form with photo upload
  • Licence and insurance shown upfront
  • Gallery of completed jobs
  • Click-to-call and service area map
Professional Services Site
Typical price
$3,800 – $9,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For consultants, engineers, accountants and mortgage brokers based in Menai, a site built to look as credible as the clients they already work with.

  • Staff bios and qualifications
  • Case studies and downloadable guides
  • Booking form for consultations
  • Clear service and pricing pages
Real Estate & Property Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–7 weeks

For real estate agents and property managers working the shire's rental and hiring market, a searchable, mobile-first portal that gets enquiries before a listing goes cold.

  • Searchable property listings
  • Enquiry and inspection booking forms
  • Agent profiles and contact details
  • Mobile-first listing photos and maps

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Why FindDevs in Menai

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Menai 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 Menai's actual customers.

The median age in Menai is 39. 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

Menai questions.

It depends what the site needs to do. A trade or service site for a builder, plumber or landscaper typically runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. A professional services site for a consultant, engineer or mortgage broker sits around $3,800 – $9,000. A property or real estate portal with listings and enquiry forms runs $4,500 – $12,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers before you commit to any of it, so you can compare before you spend anything.
Most projects run 2 to 7 weeks depending on scope. A straightforward trade or service site is the fastest, usually 2–4 weeks. Something with bookings, staff profiles or property listings, like a professional services site or a real estate portal, takes longer, typically 3–7 weeks because there is more content and testing before launch. Every quote states an exact timeframe up front, not a vague estimate, so you know when the site goes live before work starts.
The three developers you're matched with are Australian and vetted for the type of build you need, whether that's a trade site, a professional services site or a property portal. They are not guaranteed to be based in Menai or anywhere in Sutherland Shire, but they will ask about your customers, your competitors and what a local search for your trade actually looks like before they quote, so the site is built for this market even if the desk it's built at is somewhere else in the country.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Construction
5,118 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
3,753 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
3,142 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
1,854 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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