Who lives here
7,951
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age55
- Aged 65+39.5%
- Under 2522.8%
- Median household income$1,063/wk
- Median rent$380/wk
Fraser Coast, Queensland
A suburb that has settled in, not one still arriving.
Urraween is a residential pocket of Hervey Bay, set back from the tourist strip, and its numbers describe people who have settled rather than people passing through. 7,951 people live here, the median age is 55, and 39.5% are over 65. Health care & social assistance is the second-largest sector across the Fraser Coast council area, with 820 businesses, and that tracks: an older population needs doctors, physios and home care more than it needs anything a beach town usually sells. This is not a growth suburb chasing new estates. It is a settled one running on pensions, part-time work and whatever a retiree still does for income.
Five hundred businesses already trade in a suburb this size, so the contest here is not for a customer who does not exist, it is for the customer who is about to pick someone else. The constraint underneath that is distance: 39.5% of Urraween is over 65, driving further than necessary for a GP, a physio or a hairdresser is not the plan, and neither is landing on a site that will not load properly on the way there. A kitchen renovator working downsizers, a physio, an accountant sorting pension paperwork or a local cafe owner are all selling the same thing before anything else: can you be found quickly, and can you be trusted once you are. A site that states opening hours, a phone number and what you actually do, in type large enough to read at arm's length, wins jobs that a Facebook page keeps losing.
Three vetted Australian developers, hand-picked to a Urraween brief, quoted in writing within 24 hours. Free, no obligation.
Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Urraween market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Urraween itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Fraser Coast area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~500
businesses in Urraween (estimated*)
- Fraser Coast total7,104
- Solo / non-employing4,119
- 1–4 staff2,010
- 5–19 staff792
- 20+ staff183
86% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Fraser Coast (2025)
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Construction1,538
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Health care & social assistance820
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Rental, hiring & real estate693
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Agriculture, forestry & fishing642
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Professional, scientific & technical services549
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Other services476
*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 Urraween businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Renovation Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
A straightforward site for builders, renovators and trades working Urraween's older homes: clear services, real photos, and a phone number that's easy to find on a small screen.
- Mobile-first layout for on-site browsing
- Photo gallery of completed jobs
- Click-to-call and quote request form
- Local SEO for Hervey Bay searches
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
An online booking build for physios, GPs and allied health clinics, built for a client base that's less mobile and wants an appointment locked in without a phone queue.
- Online appointment booking calendar
- Large type, high-contrast design
- Patient intake forms built in
- SMS or email appointment reminders
Property & Real Estate Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
A listings-led site for property managers, real estate agents and landlords, built to show current rentals and sales clearly to a market that checks online before it calls.
- Live property listings display
- Enquiry form on every listing
- Portal integration for rentals
- Fast search and filter by suburb
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Why FindDevs in Urraween
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
In a town of ~500 businesses there might be one or two people building websites, if they're taking work on. We put your brief in front of vetted developers across Australia and hand you three written quotes to compare, 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 Urraween's actual customers.
With a median age of 55 and 39.5% of locals over 65, we match developers who design for readability, fast regional connections and easy booking, not design-award vanity.
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
Urraween questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward trade or service site runs $3,000 - $8,000 and takes 2-4 weeks. A booking system for a clinic or allied health practice runs $4,500 - $12,000. A property or listings site sits around $3,500 - $9,500. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers who quote against your actual brief, so you get a fixed price within 24 hours instead of a guess.
The developers matched to your job are vetted Australian developers, not necessarily based in Urraween or on the Fraser Coast. What they're matched on is the type of build you need, whether that's a booking system, a trade site or a property listings build, and they work from your brief, your photos and your actual customers, not assumptions about the area.
Yes. 39.5% of Urraween is over 65, and a site built for that audience needs larger type, real contrast, buttons big enough to hit on a phone without zooming, and a phone number that's visible without scrolling. Clever animation and tiny grey text cost you enquiries here in a way they might not in a younger suburb. We brief developers on this specifically when a build is going into an older market like Urraween.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Urraween 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 Urraween, by registered businesses in Fraser Coast. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
1,538
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
820
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
693
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
549
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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