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Gold Coast, Queensland

A beach postcode built by trades, not tourism.

Miami is a beachside suburb on the Gold Coast, wedged between Burleigh Heads and Nobby Beach, home to 7,445 people at the last census and an estimated 980 businesses trading out of the suburb itself. The median age is 37 and household income runs to $1,831 a week, comfortably above what most coastal suburbs report, the profile of a suburb people move to once they can afford the postcode rather than one they grow up leaving. It doesn't run on a single industry the way a mining town does; it runs on the beach, the buyers it attracts, and the trades that keep building behind it.

A renovation builder working out of Miami is flat out right now, extensions and knockdown rebuilds along the beachside streets, more jobs than he can quote. It's no accident: construction is the largest sector across the wider Gold Coast council area, 15,355 businesses deep. His work is still all word of mouth, and that stops paying off the day a buyer two streets over checks online first and finds a competitor's site instead of his. The businesses winning that search are rarely the best builders on the coast, just the best-marketed. Professional, scientific & technical services counts 11,181 businesses across the same council area and rental, hiring & real estate another 12,135, so a Miami architect or property manager competes at that scale too. Family income here is $2,270 a week, and 25.2% of locals are under 25, a market young enough to hire properly, not haggle.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Miami market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
7,445
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age37
  • Aged 65+15%
  • Under 2525.2%
  • Median household income$1,831/wk
  • Median rent$470/wk
The business scene
~980
businesses in Miami (estimated*)
  • Gold Coast total83,266
  • Solo / non-employing52,343
  • 1–4 staff21,663
  • 5–19 staff7,072
  • 20+ staff2,188

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

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Gold Coast (2025)
  • Construction15,355
  • Rental, hiring & real estate12,135
  • Professional, scientific & technical services11,181
  • Health care & social assistance6,713
  • Transport, postal & warehousing5,633
  • Retail trade5,079

*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 Miami businesses actually build.

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

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

Built for the renovators and trades riding Miami's construction boom: a quote form, a job gallery, and a site that ranks when someone searches your trade plus Miami.

  • Quote request form
  • Before/after job gallery
  • Mobile-first for job-site browsing
  • Local SEO for trade + suburb searches
Retail & Cafe Website
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For shops and cafes on Miami's beach strip: menus or product pages, opening hours front and centre, and online ordering wired in where you need it.

  • Menu or product catalogue
  • Opening hours front and centre
  • Online ordering integration
  • Google Maps and directions
Property & Real Estate Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks

Built for agents and property managers working the Gold Coast's crowded rental and real estate market: searchable listings, enquiry forms and CRM integration.

  • Searchable listing pages
  • Enquiry and booking forms
  • CRM or inbox integration
  • Agent profile pages

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Why FindDevs in Miami

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Miami 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 Miami's actual customers.

The median age in Miami is 37. 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

Miami questions.

It depends on what you're building. A trade or builder site with a quote form and job gallery runs $3,000 - $8,000 and takes 2-4 weeks. A retail or cafe site with online ordering runs $3,500 - $9,500 over 3-5 weeks. A property or real estate portal with searchable listings and CRM integration runs $4,500 - $12,000 over 4-8 weeks. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers before you commit to anything, so you're comparing real numbers, not estimates.
No, and that's the point. FindDevs matches you with vetted Australian developers based on your brief, not your postcode. They build to the same standard whether the client is in Miami or Melbourne, and a developer three suburbs away who does exactly what you need beats a local generalist who doesn't. What matters is the finished site working for people searching for a business in Miami, not where the developer's desk happens to sit.
Because word of mouth stops scaling once a suburb this size fills up with competitors. Construction is the biggest sector across the whole Gold Coast council area, 15,355 businesses deep, and rental, hiring & real estate isn't far behind at 12,135 across that same council area. With 25.2% of locals under 25 and household income at $1,831 a week, most of your customers are searching on a phone before they ring anyone, and comparing three results in under a minute. The businesses that show up in that search win the job before the phone even rings.
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