Who lives here
10,483
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age39
- Aged 65+18.7%
- Under 2530.1%
- Median household income$1,092/wk
- Median rent$194/wk
Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia
Every road crosses here. So does every search.
Port Augusta is where Australia changes gear: the last real city before the outback, the junction where the highways to Perth, Darwin and Sydney part ways, and the gateway everyone funnels through on the way to the Flinders Ranges. Since the coal station closed, the city of 10,500 has been rebuilding its identity around solar farms, transport, services and the tourism flowing past in ever-bigger numbers.
That passing flow is the business model. Grey nomads plan fuel stops and cabins from the caravan the night before. Flinders-bound travellers search "where to eat Port Augusta" from the highway. Contractors chase renewable projects that get scoped from Adelaide and Melbourne. In every case the winners are decided online, hours or weeks before anyone arrives, which makes a findable, bookable website the most valuable real estate a Port Augusta business can own.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Port Augusta brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-07-08
The Port Augusta market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Port Augusta itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Port Augusta City Council area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~480
businesses in Port Augusta (estimated*)
- Port Augusta City Council total661
- Solo / non-employing399
- 1–4 staff147
- 5–19 staff98
- 20+ staff17
83% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Port Augusta City Council (2025)
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Construction102
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Rental, hiring & real estate72
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Transport, postal & warehousing70
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing64
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Health care & social assistance60
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Other services55
*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 2026-07-08.
Typical projects
What Port Augusta businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Traveller & accommodation site
Typical price
$3,000 – $9,000
Timeline
2–5 weeks
Motels, caravan parks, cabins and eateries catching the highway trade. Direct bookings and answers to the questions travellers actually ask.
- Direct booking + payments
- Availability travellers trust
- Loads fast on highway 4G
- "Open now" + facilities clarity
Outback tourism & tours site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
Flinders gateway experiences, tours and hire. Bookable online where itineraries are planned, weeks ahead and far away.
- Tour bookings + seasonal timetables
- Gift vouchers + group enquiries
- Photo-led outback design
- Itinerary content that ranks
Trades & renewables services site
Typical price
$2,500 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Solar projects, transport, civil works and the town's everyday trades. Capability online wins contracts scoped from far away.
- Capability + compliance pages
- Project case studies
- Ranks across the Upper Gulf
- Quote + tender enquiry flows
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Why FindDevs in Port Augusta
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
In a town of ~480 businesses there might be one or two people building websites, if they're taking work on. We put your brief in front of vetted developers across Australia and hand you three written quotes to compare, 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 Port Augusta's actual customers.
The median age in Port Augusta 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
Port Augusta questions.
Trades and services typically $2,500–$8,000, accommodation and tourism sites $3,000–$9,500. Three written quotes from vetted Australian developers arrive within 24 hours of your free brief, so you'll see the exact range for your operation straight away.
They search before they arrive: tonight's cabin, tomorrow's brekkie, a mechanic who can look at the van. Those searches happen 50 to 500 kilometres up the road. If you're bookable and answer the practical questions (hours, powered sites, dog-friendly, big-rig parking), you win the stop before your competitor's signage is even visible.
Local capability that's visible online gets found by project managers procuring from the cities. Certifications, plant lists, safety record and past projects on a professional site put you on shortlists that never reach the local paper. It's the cheapest tender-readiness money can buy.
It's a design constraint we brief for: lightweight pages, compressed images, no autoplay video, and everything usable on patchy highway 4G. A site built that way is actually faster than most city websites, which is part of why it converts travellers so well.
Within 24 hours of a two-minute brief: three written quotes from vetted Australian developers. Free, no obligation.
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