Who lives here
12,374
residents at the 2021 Census
- Median age43
- Aged 65+21.4%
- Under 2529.6%
- Median household income$1,816/wk
- Median rent$395/wk
Wollongong, New South Wales
A strip of coast where your competitor is always the next suburb along.
Woonona is a beach suburb pinned between the Illawarra escarpment and the Pacific, a few minutes north of Wollongong on the old Princes Highway strip that also carries Bulli and Thirroul. Population sits at 12,374, and the age spread is wider than most coastal suburbs: 29.6% of residents are under 25, enough for board riders and young families to matter as much as retirees. Median age is 43. Weekly household income runs to $1,816, comfortably above what a lot of regional service towns can offer a business trading locally.
Construction is the biggest industry across the Wollongong council area, 3,185 businesses, and Woonona's own trade base sits inside that count: builders, roofers, electricians and landscapers working the escarpment suburbs from Bulli down to Corrimal. The coast squeezes that trade into a strip. There's no ring of outer suburbs to draw from in every direction, only a line of similar-sized suburbs along the highway and the rail corridor, each with its own builders chasing the same renovation jobs. A tradie who ranks for Woonona and loses the click to whoever ranks for Bulli has lost the job, not just the search. With 21.4% of residents over 65 and family income at $2,389 a week, customers here can pay for the job properly and expect the quote to match.
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Live ABS data · updated 2026-08-29
The Woonona market, by the numbers.
Pulled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the 2021 Census for Woonona itself, and the latest Data by Region release (2025) for the Wollongong area. This is the market your website sells into.
The business scene
~940
businesses in Woonona (estimated*)
- Wollongong total16,278
- Solo / non-employing9,270
- 1–4 staff4,894
- 5–19 staff1,691
- 20+ staff423
87% of local businesses have fewer than 5 staff. That's exactly who FindDevs was built for.
Biggest local industries
Businesses by industry, Wollongong (2025)
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Construction3,185
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Professional, scientific & technical services2,331
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Health care & social assistance1,873
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Rental, hiring & real estate1,723
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Transport, postal & warehousing1,106
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Other services946
*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 Woonona businesses actually build.
Indicative ranges from briefs like these in the FindDevs network. Your three quotes will be specific to your scope.
Trade & Construction Website
Typical price
$3,000 – $8,000
Timeline
2–4 weeks
A lead-generating site for builders, roofers, electricians and landscapers working the escarpment suburbs, built to show finished jobs and take quote requests fast.
- Quote request form with photo upload
- Job gallery organised by suburb
- Mobile-first for use on site
- Google Business Profile integration
Allied Health Booking Site
Typical price
$4,500 – $12,000
Timeline
4–6 weeks
An online booking system for physios, podiatrists and psychologists, built to fill appointment gaps without a receptionist answering the phone all day.
- Real-time appointment booking
- Patient intake forms online
- Medicare and health fund info pages
- Automated booking reminders
Professional Services & Listings
Typical price
$3,500 – $9,500
Timeline
3–5 weeks
A showcase site for real estate agents, financial planners and consultants, built to list properties or services and convert local searches into calls.
- Property or service listings
- Agent or consultant profiles
- Enquiry and appraisal forms
- Suburb guide content pages
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Why FindDevs in Woonona
Local knowledge, without being stuck with one local option.
Three quotes, not one local guess.
Around Woonona 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 Woonona's actual customers.
The median age in Woonona is 43. 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
Woonona questions.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A trade site for a builder or electrician runs $3,000 - $8,000 and takes 2-4 weeks. A booking system for a physio or allied health clinic, with online appointments and patient forms, runs $4,500 - $12,000 over 4-6 weeks. A listings site for a real estate agent or consultant sits at $3,500 - $9,500 over 3-5 weeks. FindDevs matches you with three vetted developers who quote a fixed price within 24 hours, so you compare real numbers before deciding.
No, and we don't pretend otherwise. FindDevs matches your brief to three vetted Australian developers based on the skills and budget your job needs, not their postcode. What matters more for a business here is a developer who understands that Woonona competes suburb by suburb along the coast, from Bulli to Corrimal, and builds the site to rank for Woonona searches specifically rather than a generic Illawarra page that nobody local ever finds.
It depends on the brief. A straightforward trade or trade-services site is usually 2-4 weeks. A booking or portal build, such as an appointment system for a clinic, takes 4-6 weeks because of the extra testing a booking system needs. A listings or professional services site sits in between at 3-5 weeks. You get a fixed timeframe along with the fixed-price quote within 24 hours of submitting your brief, so there's no guessing before you commit.
Fixed prices
Know the price before you talk to anyone.
These are published fixed-price builds, available to Woonona 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 Woonona, by registered businesses in Wollongong. Each one has its own page, because a cafe site and a plant-hire site are not the same job.
Construction
3,185
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Professional, scientific & technical services
2,331
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Health care & social assistance
1,873
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
Rental, hiring & real estate
1,723
local businesses
Web developers for this sector
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