Who lives here
7,175
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age39
- Aged 65+17.9%
- Under 2527.4%
- Median household income$1,737/wk
- Median rent$460/wk
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast suburb where the beach ends and the airport begins.
Tugun sits at the quiet end of the Gold Coast, where the tourist strip runs out and Gold Coast Airport takes over the foreshore. Construction leads business counts across the Gold Coast council area with 15,355 businesses, and that growth shows up locally as renovations and new builds rather than high-rise towers, because Tugun has stayed low-rise while its neighbours went vertical. The suburb itself counts 7,175 people, with a median age of 39 and a household income of $1,737 a week, comfortably enough to pay a tradesperson properly instead of chasing the cheapest quote.
Take the electrician quoting switchboard upgrades and rewires along Golden Four Drive. His problem isn't a lack of jobs, it's that Tugun's household income runs to $1,737 a week and family income to $2,074, so the customers ringing him are comparing quotes on trust as much as price. A photo gallery of blurry job shots and a contact form that bounces to a dead inbox reads as amateur to someone who can clearly afford the job done right the first time. The same test applies to the physio near the surf club, the property manager handling holiday rentals, and the mortgage broker helping first-home buyers into the newer blocks: Tugun has the money to choose carefully, and a proper website is what lets it choose you over the next search result.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Tugun market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Tugun itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Gold Coast area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~940
businesses in Tugun (estimated*)
- Gold Coast total83,266
- Solo / non-employing52,343
- 1–4 staff21,663
- 5–19 staff7,072
- 20+ staff2,188
89% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Gold Coast (2025)
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Construction15,355
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Rental, hiring & real estate12,135
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Professional, scientific & technical services11,181
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Health care & social assistance6,713
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Transport, postal & warehousing5,633
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Retail trade5,079
*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 Tugun businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Service Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
Built for builders, electricians and other trades working the renovations and new builds around Tugun and the wider Gold Coast.
- Quote request form with photo upload
- Click-to-call and service area map
- Mobile-first for tradies on site
- Google Business Profile integration
Property & Rental Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
Listings, availability calendars and enquiry forms for real estate and holiday rental businesses working Tugun's beachside stock.
- Live listings with photo galleries
- Enquiry and booking request forms
- Availability calendar integration
- Map search by street or beach access
Health & Professional Practice Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,000
Timeline
3–5 weeks
For physios, clinics and consultants who need booking, credibility and clear service pages that convert Gold Coast searches.
- Online appointment booking
- Practitioner bios and credentials
- Service and pricing pages
- Location and opening hours upfront
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Why FindDevs in Tugun
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Tugun 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 Tugun's actual customers.
The median age in Tugun 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
Tugun questions.
It depends on what you need. A trade or service site for a builder, electrician or landscaper typically runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. A property or rental booking site with live listings and enquiry forms runs $4,500 – $12,000. A health or professional practice site with online booking sits around $3,500 – $9,000. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers who quote against your actual brief, so the final number reflects your project, not a generic package.
Most trade and service sites for Tugun businesses are built and live in 2–4 weeks once you approve the design. Larger builds, like a property portal with booking calendars or a practice site with online appointments, usually take 3–6 weeks because there's more content and more integration to test. You get three fixed-price quotes within 24 hours of sending your brief, and each one states its own timeline before you commit to anything.
Tugun has an estimated 940 local businesses, and most of them are still relying on a Facebook page or a listing on a directory site. A suburb this size doesn't have room for ten competing plumbers or ten competing property managers to all rank on page one, so the business with the site that loads fast, shows a real phone number and answers the actual question wins the search almost by default. That's a low bar to clear if your competitors haven't bothered.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Tugun 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.
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Your industry
Developers who have built for your trade before.
The biggest employers around Tugun, by registered businesses in Gold Coast. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
15,355
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
12,135
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
11,181
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
6,713
local businesses
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