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Sutherland Shire, New South Wales

The suburb where the boat shed doubles as the office.

Sylvania is a harbourside pocket of the Sutherland Shire, and the money shows before anything else does. Median household income runs to $1,961 a week, well ahead of most of Sydney, and the population spending it is older and settled: median age 46, with 25.7% of residents already over 65. Construction is the biggest trade across the Sutherland Shire, 5,118 businesses strong, building and renovating along the waterfront and inland alike. This isn't a suburb of young renters churning through each year; it's owner-occupiers who've been here a while and can afford tradesmen, specialists and shopfitters who do the job properly the first time.

"Everyone around here already knows us" is the line that keeps a Sylvania trade off Google for one more year. But 10,749 people is not the small town that sentence imagines, it is a big enough crowd for three plumbers, two physios and a mortgage broker to all be chasing the same referral, and for a marine mechanic on the water to lose a job to a rival's ad in Miranda before the phone even rings. Family income here runs to $2,358 a week, so the customer texting at nine at night can actually afford to pay properly and has no reason to wait on a recommendation. A fast, credible website is what makes "everyone already knows us" true again, because it puts the business in front of the search instead of behind it.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Sylvania market, by the numbers.

Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Sylvania itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Sutherland Shire area. This is the market your website sells into.

Who lives here
10,749
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age46
  • Aged 65+25.7%
  • Under 2527.8%
  • Median household income$1,961/wk
  • Median rent$530/wk
The business scene
~1,100
businesses in Sylvania (estimated*)
  • Sutherland Shire total23,556
  • Solo / non-employing13,308
  • 1–4 staff7,638
  • 5–19 staff2,130
  • 20+ staff480

89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Sutherland Shire (2025)
  • Construction5,118
  • Professional, scientific & technical services3,753
  • Rental, hiring & real estate3,142
  • Health care & social assistance1,854
  • Retail trade1,283
  • Financial & insurance services1,266

*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 Sylvania businesses actually build.

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

Trade & Construction Sites
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks

Built for builders, electricians and marine fitters working the waterfront and the streets behind it, with a gallery that shows finished work and a form that gets straight to a quote.

  • Quote calculator for jobs
  • Before/after project gallery
  • Click-to-call and enquiry form
  • Google Business Profile setup
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $11,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For physios, dentists and GPs who need patients booking online instead of ringing during opening hours, built to load fast for someone comparing three clinics on a phone.

  • Online appointment booking
  • Practitioner bios and services
  • Health fund rebate info page
  • Mobile-first booking flow
Real Estate & Property Sites
Typical price
$5,000 – $12,500
Timeline
3–6 weeks

For real estate agents and property managers working Sylvania's canal streets and waterfront, with listings, suburb data and enquiry forms built to turn a browse into an appraisal booking.

  • Live property/rental listings
  • Suburb profile and price guide
  • Enquiry and appraisal forms
  • Fast search and filtering

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Why FindDevs in Sylvania

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Sylvania 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 Sylvania's actual customers.

The median age in Sylvania is 46. 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

Sylvania questions.

It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward trade or services site for a builder or electrician runs $3,000 – $8,000. A booking site for a clinic or allied health practice, where patients need to book appointments online, runs $4,500 – $11,000. A real estate or property site with live listings and suburb data runs $5,000 – $12,500. Every quote is fixed-price and comes from three vetted Australian developers within 24 hours, so you can compare before committing to any of them.
The developers we match are vetted Australian professionals matched to your brief, not necessarily based in Sylvania or the Sutherland Shire. What matters more than a local postcode is whether they've built the kind of site your business needs, whether that's a trade site, a booking system or a property listings page, and whether they can price it for a market with the household incomes Sylvania has. You get three quotes to compare, so you can choose on capability and price rather than proximity.
Most projects run 2 to 6 weeks depending on scope. A straightforward trade or services site is usually 2–4 weeks. A booking system for a clinic, with online appointments and scheduling built in, takes 3–5 weeks. A real estate or property site with live listings and search filtering takes 3–6 weeks. You'll get a specific timeframe with your quote, not just a range, once a developer has seen the brief.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

The biggest employers around Sylvania, by registered businesses in Sutherland Shire. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.

Construction
5,118 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
3,753 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
3,142 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
1,854 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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