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Gold Coast, Queensland

A beach suburb sitting on the region's biggest industry, not tourism.

Palm Beach is a residential surf suburb near the southern end of the Gold Coast strip, not a tourist strip in its own right. About 16,349 people live here and the median age is 39, closer to a family suburb than a schoolies postcode. Construction is the Gold Coast council area's largest industry by a wide margin at 15,355 businesses, a sign of a region still being built rather than one that peaked decades ago. Palm Beach carries an estimated 2,150 local businesses of its own, mostly serving the streets around it rather than chasing the tourist trade further north on the strip.

Assume a beach suburb like this runs light on money and you would be wrong. Household income is $1,721 a week, family income $2,219, and that changes what a website has to do here. A physiotherapist, a boat detailer, a landscaper or a real estate agent working the streets behind the beach is pricing jobs for people who can afford to be fussy, not people hunting the cheapest quote. Rental, hiring and real estate is the second-largest industry across the Gold Coast council area at 12,135 businesses, and professional, scientific and technical services is third at 11,181, so Palm Beach residents deal with polished operators long before they ever ring a tradie. A website that looks like it was knocked up on a Sunday afternoon will not survive that comparison.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Palm Beach market, by the numbers.

Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Palm Beach 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
16,349
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age39
  • Aged 65+17.7%
  • Under 2526.4%
  • Median household income$1,721/wk
  • Median rent$445/wk
The business scene
~2,150
businesses in Palm Beach (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 Palm Beach businesses actually build.

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

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

A lead-generation site for a builder, electrician, landscaper or pool contractor working the streets behind the beach, built to convert phone calls.

  • Quote request form
  • Gallery of past jobs
  • Mobile click-to-call
  • Local SEO for Palm Beach searches
Property & Rental Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks

A listings-driven site for a real estate or holiday rental operator, built to handle live property data and enquiries without an agency's monthly fee.

  • Property listing pages
  • Enquiry & booking forms
  • Map-based search
  • CRM or portal integration
Health & Allied Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $11,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks

An online booking site for a physiotherapist, dentist or allied health clinic, built to fill appointment slots without staff on the phone all day.

  • Online appointment booking
  • Service & pricing pages
  • Patient intake forms
  • SMS or email reminders

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Why FindDevs in Palm Beach

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach's actual customers.

The median age in Palm Beach 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

Palm Beach questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A lead-generation site for a trade or professional runs $3,000 – $8,000. A property or rental portal with live listings and enquiry handling runs $4,500 – $12,000. A booking site for a clinic or allied health practice runs $4,500 – $11,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before committing to anything.
The developers we match you with are vetted Australians, chosen for the brief you give us rather than for an office nearby. Palm Beach does not need a developer who has walked the beach; it needs one who can build a fast, mobile-first site, get it ranking for local searches and hand over something you can update yourself. We brief them on your suburb, your competitors and what you actually sell, and they build to that, not to a template.
Once you accept a quote, a trade or service site typically takes 2–4 weeks, a property or booking portal 4–6 weeks and a clinic booking site 3–5 weeks, depending on how much content and integration is involved. The quotes themselves land within 24 hours of your brief, so the slow part is never waiting to hear back from a developer.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Construction
15,355 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
12,135 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
11,181 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
6,713 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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