Who lives here
51,929
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age37
- Aged 65+17.1%
- Under 2532.7%
- Median household income$1,770/wk
- Median rent$300/wk
Capricornia, Central Queensland
The beef capital, and the service town for the Bowen Basin.
Rockhampton is two economies wearing one postcode. There is the agricultural one, 739 businesses across the region, built on cattle, the saleyards and everything that supplies them. And there is the mining services one, the engineering shops, labour hire, transport and equipment specialists that keep the Bowen Basin running from a base on the coast. Household income here runs at $1,770 a week, well above the regional average, because a lot of that work pays properly.
What both economies share is that their customers are not local. A mining services business in Rockhampton is being assessed by a procurement officer in Brisbane or Perth who has never driven up the Bruce Highway. An agricultural supplier is being compared against a competitor two states away. In that situation the website is not a brochure for locals, it is the credibility document that decides whether you get on the tender list. Most of them do not look like it.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Rockhampton brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Rockhampton market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Rockhampton itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Rockhampton Regional Council area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~3,590
businesses in Rockhampton (estimated*)
- Rockhampton Regional Council total5,723
- Solo / non-employing3,332
- 1–4 staff1,491
- 5–19 staff700
- 20+ staff200
84% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Rockhampton Regional Council (2025)
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Construction945
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing739
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Rental, hiring & real estate554
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Health care & social assistance548
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Other services533
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Transport, postal & warehousing465
*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 Rockhampton businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Industrial and mining services site
Typical price
$6,000 – $16,000
Timeline
4–7 weeks
Capability statements, certifications and project history presented the way a procurement officer needs to read them.
- Capability and compliance pages
- Certifications and safety credentials
- Project history with real detail
- Tender-ready document downloads
Agricultural and rural supply site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
3–6 weeks
For the 739 agriculture businesses across the region. Product catalogues, stock and ordering that work on a patchy rural connection.
- Product catalogue with real specs
- Ordering or enquiry by line item
- Works on slow rural data
- Account customer pricing
Trade and local service site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
With 945 construction businesses locally, a site that gets found for the job and makes the call easy.
- Local SEO across Central Queensland
- Click-to-call everything
- Job galleries
- Quote forms
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Why FindDevs in Rockhampton
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Rockhampton 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 Rockhampton's actual customers.
The median age in Rockhampton 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
Rockhampton questions.
More, not less. A procurement officer shortlisting suppliers will look you up before they call, and a site that cannot show certifications, project history and capability in a readable form gets skipped quietly. You never hear about the tender you were not invited to. That is the entire argument for this build.
That is a design constraint, not an afterthought. Sites are built to be usable on rural mobile data, which means restrained image weight, no heavy frameworks for what could be plain pages, and forms that do not lose your input if the connection drops mid-submission.
An industrial or mining services site with capability and compliance content runs $6,000 to $16,000. Agricultural and rural supply is $4,500 to $12,000. A local trade site is $3,000 to $8,000. Three fixed quotes inside 24 hours.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Rockhampton 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 Rockhampton, by registered businesses in Rockhampton Regional Council. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
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