Who lives here
11,324
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age39
- Aged 65+20%
- Under 2532.9%
- Median household income$1,401/wk
- Median rent$260/wk
Parkes, New South Wales
Where the wheat belt meets the biggest dish in the south.
Parkes runs on agriculture first: 536 businesses across the Parkes council area, more than triple the next biggest sector. Construction is a distant second at 190, servicing the farms, the grain silos and the town's steady trickle of new houses. Median household income sits at $1,401 a week, comfortable for a regional centre this size, and at 39 the median age is close to the national average. This is a working town, not a retirement one: the businesses here sell to people who farm, build machinery sheds and drive trucks for a living.
You'd assume a farming town this size runs on handshakes and word of mouth. It doesn't, not anymore: 1,110 businesses already trade in Parkes, and a mechanic, a vet, an earthmoving contractor and a real estate agent are all fishing from the same small pool of local searches. With 32.9% of the population under 25, that pool is checking Google on a phone before it calls anyone. Whoever shows up first, loads fast and looks like they know the job wins the call, and out here that's still an easy fight to win because most of the competition hasn't bothered.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Parkes market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Parkes itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Parkes area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~1,110
businesses in Parkes (estimated*)
- Parkes total1,411
- Solo / non-employing869
- 1–4 staff387
- 5–19 staff125
- 20+ staff30
89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Parkes (2025)
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing536
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Construction190
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Other services89
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Rental, hiring & real estate89
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Transport, postal & warehousing77
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Professional, scientific & technical services71
*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 Parkes businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Contractor Site
Typical price
$3,200 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Built for builders, ag contractors and earthmoving operators who win jobs on reputation but lose them to whoever answers a phone first.
- Quote request form with photo upload
- Gallery of completed jobs
- Service area map for the district
- Mobile-first for job-site browsing
Property & Professional Site
Typical price
$3,800 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For real estate, rental and professional service businesses that need listings, contact forms and local search rankings that actually convert enquiries.
- Listings pages with photo galleries
- Enquiry and contact forms
- Local SEO for Parkes and district searches
- Mobile-friendly for on-the-go clients
Booking & Freight Portal
Typical price
$5,200 – $12,000
Timeline
5–8 weeks
For transport, freight and equipment-hire operators who need online booking, quote calculators and account logins that cut down phone tag.
- Online booking and quote calculator
- Freight or job tracking display
- Customer account logins
- Integration with existing systems
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Why FindDevs in Parkes
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Parkes 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 Parkes's actual customers.
The median age in Parkes 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
Parkes questions.
It depends on what you need. A trade or contractor site for a builder or ag contractor runs $3,200 – $8,000. A property or professional services site with listings and local SEO is $3,800 – $9,500. A booking or freight portal with online quotes and account logins runs $5,200 – $12,000. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted developers before you commit to any of it, so there's no guessing what the final invoice will look like.
Most trade and contractor sites take 2-4 weeks from brief to launch. A property or professional services build with listings and local SEO usually runs 3-5 weeks, and a booking or freight portal with online quotes and account logins takes 5-8 weeks. Timelines depend on how quickly you get content and approvals back to the developer, not on how busy they are, since you're matched with three quotes upfront and pick the one whose timeline actually suits you.
Not necessarily, and FindDevs doesn't pretend otherwise. You are matched with three vetted Australian developers based on the brief, not the postcode, so the person building your site might work from Sydney, Newcastle or somewhere else entirely. What matters is the fixed-price quote inside 24 hours and a build held to the same standard regardless of where the developer sits, with no obligation to accept any of the three quotes.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Parkes 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 Parkes, by registered businesses in Parkes. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
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