- Median age39
- Aged 65+17.7%
- Under 2526.4%
- Median household income$1,721/wk
- Median rent$445/wk
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.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Palm Beach brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
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.
- 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.
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Construction15,355
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Rental, hiring & real estate12,135
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Professional, scientific & technical services11,181
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Health care & social assistance6,713
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Transport, postal & warehousing5,633
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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.
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.
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
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
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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Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Palm Beach questions.
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Palm Beach businesses like any other. No hourly rates, no discovery call before you can see a number.
A sharp five-page website that makes a small business look established, live in a fortnight.
See what's includedThe full small-business build: 8–12 pages, booking or quoting flows, and local SEO that actually ranks.
See what's includedThe ranking machine bolted onto your existing site: service pages, suburb pages, schema and reviews, done properly once.
See what's includedHosting, updates, backups, security and monthly changes, all handled, so your site stays fast and safe without you thinking about it.
See what's includedDevelopers 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.