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Brisbane, Queensland

The suburb everyone in Brisbane can name but almost nobody lives in.

Woolloongabba is a small suburb doing an outsized job: 8,687 people live here, in the shadow of the Gabba and around the corner from the Princess Alexandra Hospital, one of Queensland's biggest public hospitals. Match days and shift changes bring more people through than the population suggests, and Logan Road's antique strip pulls buyers from well outside the suburb. Median age is 29 and household income runs to $1,863 a week, comfortable for an inner-city suburb built mostly on units rather than blocks with a shed and a trampoline. An estimated 1,000 local businesses work this patch: medical suites, antique dealers, cafes and consultancies squeezed in around the stadium and the hospital.

8,687 people is not many mouths to feed a business on its own, and Woolloongabba sits wedged between West End, Kangaroo Point and Buranda, suburbs a search engine will just as happily surface instead. In the ten minutes before someone rings a local business, they are on their phone comparing three names, checking which one has a real address near the stadium or the hospital, and picking whoever answers the obvious questions first: price, opening hours, whether they take walk-ins. A physiotherapist near the PA, a locksmith servicing the unit blocks, a real estate agent managing the rental turnover among a suburb where 33.1% of residents are under 25, or the accountant doing the books for Logan Road's antique dealers is selling into that window, not a decision made over a week. A website that states a price range and answers the phone is the only thing that keeps that decision local.

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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29

The Woolloongabba market, by the numbers.

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

Who lives here
8,687
residents at the 2021 Census
  • Median age29
  • Aged 65+7.8%
  • Under 2533.1%
  • Median household income$1,863/wk
  • Median rent$440/wk
The business scene
~1,000
businesses in Woolloongabba (estimated*)
  • Brisbane total145,916
  • Solo / non-employing91,188
  • 1–4 staff36,539
  • 5–19 staff13,340
  • 20+ staff4,849

88% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.

Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Brisbane (2025)
  • Professional, scientific & technical services26,208
  • Rental, hiring & real estate19,638
  • Construction18,377
  • Health care & social assistance15,180
  • Transport, postal & warehousing12,139
  • Financial & insurance services8,759

*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 Woolloongabba businesses actually build.

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

Clinic & Consultancy Site
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks

For the physios, specialists and consultants working near the PA and the stadium precinct, built to look as credible as the practice down the corridor.

  • Appointment booking form
  • Google Maps and directions
  • Practitioner bios and services
  • Mobile-first for fast decisions
Cafe & Antique Dealer Site
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks

For the cafes and antique dealers along Logan Road, where stock photos, trading hours and a menu or catalogue matter more than a flashy homepage.

  • Photo galleries for stock
  • Online menu or catalogue
  • Trading hours up front
  • Local SEO for Logan Road searches
Rental & Booking Portal
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–8 weeks

Rental, hiring and real estate is Brisbane's second-largest industry by business count, 19,638 firms, and Woolloongabba's unit blocks turn over renters fast enough to need a proper portal.

  • Property listings feed
  • Enquiry and booking forms
  • Owner and tenant portals
  • Automated rent enquiries

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Why FindDevs in Woolloongabba

Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.

Three quotes, not one local guess.

Around Woolloongabba 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 Woolloongabba's actual customers.

The median age in Woolloongabba is 29. 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

Woolloongabba questions.

It depends on what you need. A clinic or consultancy site running an appointment form typically runs $3,000 – $8,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. A cafe or antique dealer site with a catalogue and trading hours sits at $3,500 – $9,500 over 3–5 weeks. A rental or booking portal with owner and tenant logins runs $4,500 – $12,000 across 4–8 weeks. FindDevs matches you with three vetted developers who quote a fixed price within 24 hours, so you know the number before you commit to anything.
Not necessarily, and that's the point. FindDevs matches you with three vetted Australian developers based on the brief, not the postcode, so you get the right skill set for a clinic booking form, an antique dealer's catalogue or a rental portal rather than whoever happens to have an office nearby. All quoting and communication happens remotely, and you compare three fixed-price quotes before you choose.
Yes, but it takes deliberate work. With 8,687 residents, Woolloongabba is easy for Google to lump in with West End, Kangaroo Point or Buranda unless the site is built to claim the suburb specifically: the address, the service area, the Gabba and PA Hospital as landmarks, and copy that mentions Woolloongabba rather than just Brisbane. Done properly, a local business ranks for its own suburb instead of losing every search to a bigger neighbour.
Your industry

Developers who have built for your trade before.

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

Professional, scientific & technical services
26,208 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
19,638 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Construction
18,377 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
15,180 local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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