Website Developers in St Ives NSW

Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales

A suburb that earns it elsewhere and spends it locally.

St Ives sits inside Ku-ring-gai, on Sydney's Upper North Shore, and the money follows the postcode: household income runs $2,888 a week, family income $3,306, both among the highest anywhere in Sydney. Professional, scientific and technical services leads every industry across the Ku-ring-gai council area, 3,770 businesses, well ahead of real estate and health care in the same area. None of that work necessarily happens inside St Ives itself. 18,384 people live here, and plenty of them earn that income somewhere else and spend it on the school run, the shopping village car park and the tennis club.

An orthodontist setting up near St Ives Shopping Village has one real problem: everyone assumes a wealthy, settled North Shore suburb skews old, and the numbers say otherwise. 31.8% of St Ives residents are under 25, well ahead of the 21.7% aged 65 and over. The median age of 43 hides a suburb full of children and teenagers: families here are larger and stay through school rather than downsizing early. This is the real customer base for an orthodontist, a driving instructor, a swim school or a maths tutor, and none of it comes from a noticeboard at the shops. Parents here research everything before they call, compare two or three providers on a phone, and expect a website that looks as considered as the rest of their decisions. A well-built site with proper local SEO gets a business onto that shortlist before the comparison starts.

Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a St Ives brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.

Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The St Ives market, by the numbers.

Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for St Ives itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Ku-ring-gai area. This is the market your website sells into.

Who lives here

18,384

residents at the 2021 Census

Median age43
Aged 65+21.7%
Under 2531.8%
Median household income$2,888/wk
Median rent$688/wk

The business scene

~2,290

businesses in St Ives (estimated*)

Ku-ring-gai total15,509
Solo / non-employing10,034
1–4 staff4,353
5–19 staff890
20+ staff232

93% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries

Businesses by industry, Ku-ring-gai (2025)

Professional, scientific & technical services3,770
Rental, hiring & real estate2,486
Health care & social assistance1,975
Financial & insurance services1,406
Construction1,260
Retail trade822

*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 St Ives businesses actually build.

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

Professional Services Site

Typical price

$3,200 – $7,800

Timeline

2–4 weeks

For a financial planner, lawyer, accountant or consultant who needs a site that reads as credible as the client meetings, with clear service pages and a proper enquiry form.

Service pages that explain fees
Enquiry form, not just an email
Fast load on mobile data
Local SEO for North Shore searches

Health & Allied Clinic Booking Site

Typical price

$4,800 – $10,500

Timeline

4–6 weeks

Built for a dentist, orthodontist or physio handling ongoing appointments rather than one-off enquiries, with online booking that actually reduces phone calls at reception.

Online booking calendar
Patient intake forms
Practitioner and service pages
SMS or email reminders

Property & Real Estate Site

Typical price

$5,500 – $12,000

Timeline

5–7 weeks

For an agency or property manager listing St Ives homes, with searchable listings, appraisal requests and a site that looks as sharp as the properties it's selling.

Live listings feed
Appraisal request form
Suburb and school catchment pages
Fast search and filtering

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Why FindDevs in St Ives

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around St Ives 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 St Ives's actual customers.

The median age in St Ives is 43. 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

St Ives questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward professional services site, the kind a planner or consultant needs, runs $3,200 – $7,800 and takes 2–4 weeks. A clinic with online booking runs $4,800 – $10,500 over 4–6 weeks, and a real estate or listings site with search and appraisal requests runs $5,500 – $12,000 over 5–7 weeks. You get three fixed-price quotes from vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before deciding.

Referrals still start a lot of local business, but the first thing most people do afterwards is check you out on their phone. 31.8% of St Ives residents are under 25, and household income here runs $2,888 a week, so the person searching your name has money to spend and expects to find a site that looks the part before they call. A referral with nothing to confirm it online just as easily ends up with whichever competitor shows up first in the search instead.

The developers we match are vetted Australian developers working to your brief, not a local office in St Ives, because FindDevs doesn't have one and doesn't pretend to. What they bring is experience building sites for businesses like yours, plus the Ku-ring-gai and North Shore context you give them in the brief: your suburb, your customers, the search terms people actually use. You get three fixed-price quotes to compare, and you choose the developer whose approach fits the job, not whichever office happens to be closest.

Fixed prices

Know the price before you talk to anyone.

These are published fixed-price builds, available to St Ives 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.

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Professional 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.

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Local 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.

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Website 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.

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Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

The biggest employers around St Ives, by registered businesses in Ku-ring-gai. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.

Professional, scientific & technical services

3,770 local businesses

Web developers for this sector

Rental, hiring & real estate

2,486 local businesses

Web developers for this sector

Health care & social assistance

1,975 local businesses

Web developers for this sector

Construction

1,260 local businesses

Web developers for this sector