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Manningham, Victoria

The Melbourne suburb the train line never reached.

Templestowe is an established, affluent suburb rather than a growth corridor. The 2021 census counted 16,966 people at a median age of 46, household income running to $2,163 a week, well above the Melbourne average, and 25.1% of residents already over 65. Quarter-acre blocks along the river escarpment mostly change hands between owners now rather than being subdivided for new estates. This is a suburb that finished building decades ago and is now simply being lived in, renovated and maintained.

Construction is the largest industry across the Manningham council area, with 2,654 businesses, but Manningham has no train line, and none of that trade is generated by foot traffic or a shopfront sign. It runs instead on renovations: established owners extending, rewiring and re-roofing houses that were finished decades ago, and finding the tradesperson on a screen rather than a passing van. A builder, an electrician, an architect or a landscaper here is working a car-based catchment, where the next job is booked through a search, not a knock on the door. Household income runs to $2,163 a week and family income to $2,419, comfortably enough to pay a proper trade rate, but comfortable customers are also the pickiest: a dated site with a stock photo of a hard hat loses the render before the quote is even requested.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Templestowe market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
16,966
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age46
  • Aged 65+25.1%
  • Under 2526.9%
  • Median household income$2,163/wk
  • Median rent$513/wk
The business scene
~2,070
businesses in Templestowe (estimated*)
  • Manningham total15,386
  • Solo / non-employing10,774
  • 1–4 staff3,559
  • 5–19 staff866
  • 20+ staff187

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

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Manningham (2025)
  • Construction2,654
  • Rental, hiring & real estate2,459
  • Professional, scientific & technical services2,226
  • Health care & social assistance1,547
  • Retail trade1,083
  • Financial & insurance services958

*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 Templestowe businesses actually build.

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

Trade & Renovation Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks

A lead-generating site for builders, electricians and landscapers working Templestowe's renovation-heavy streets, built to show licensing, past jobs and a phone number that works from a ute.

  • Mobile-first quote request form
  • Licence & insurance details upfront
  • Photo gallery of completed jobs
  • Click-to-call from any page
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
3–6 weeks

An appointment-booking site for physios, dentists and GPs, built to handle real-time booking, patient intake forms and the scrutiny of a suburb used to paying for quality care.

  • Real-time appointment booking
  • Online patient intake forms
  • Practitioner bios & credentials
  • SMS & email booking reminders
Professional Services Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
2–5 weeks

A credibility-first site for accountants, family lawyers and real estate agents, built to convert a phone-first search into an enquiry from clients who compare firms before they call.

  • Case studies & credentials page
  • Enquiry form with fast follow-up
  • Local SEO for Manningham searches
  • Clean, professional design system

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Why FindDevs in Templestowe

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Templestowe 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 Templestowe's actual customers.

The median age in Templestowe 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

Templestowe questions.

It depends on scope. A trade or renovation website for a builder, electrician or landscaper typically runs $3,000 – $8,000. An allied health site with real-time booking, for a physio, dentist or GP, runs $4,500 – $12,000. A professional services or real estate site sits at $3,500 – $9,500. You get fixed-price quotes from three vetted developers within 24 hours, so you are comparing exact numbers, not estimates that move once the work starts.
Plenty of Templestowe trades still run on referrals and a sign on the ute, and it has worked for decades. But roughly 2,070 businesses already operate in the suburb, and a growing share of them rank on Google before a phone ever rings. If someone searches 'electrician Templestowe' and finds three competitors ahead of you, the referral you were counting on gets a second opinion typed into a search bar. A website does not replace the referral, it backs it up the moment someone checks you out.
No, and we would not pretend otherwise. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on your brief, not your postcode, and each prices the same job so you can compare like for like. What matters for a Templestowe business is a developer who understands renovation-heavy trade sites, allied health booking systems or professional services marketing, not one who happens to live nearby.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Construction
2,654 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
2,459 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
2,226 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
1,547 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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