A free directory of businesses on the Gold Coast, from Coolangatta to Coomera and the hinterland. As of November 2026 it lists 17,618 businesses in 378 categories across 77 suburbs.
The Gold Coast is Queensland's second city and still growing fast: 691,230 people at June 2025, 129,601 more than a decade earlier, a rise of 23% (ABS Regional population 2024-25). The Queensland Government projects 894,688 residents by 2041 and more than 950,000 by 2046 (population projections, 2025 edition), another 190,000 customers in 15 years.
The Regional Movers Index has ranked it second in Australia for people moving in from the capital cities (Regional Australia Institute, June 2024 quarter).
Behind that growth is a build program: the $3.5 billion Coomera Connector, with its first section open since December 2025; the new 600-bed Coomera Hospital, construction starting in late 2026 and the first beds in 2031; and the light rail extension to Gold Coast University Hospital, funded in the 2026-27 budget (Queensland Government and Gold Coast Health, 2024 to 2026).
A city with that many newcomers has no shortage of directories. It has a shortage of ones that are checked.
The guide follows the City of Gold Coast boundary: the beaches from Coolangatta through Burleigh, Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise up to Southport and Runaway Bay, the northern corridor of Helensvale, Coomera, Pimpama and Ormeau, and the hinterland back to Mudgeeraba, Advancetown and the foot of Tamborine.
Tweed Heads shares a main street with Coolangatta and will be added as a named New South Wales area. Logan is not included. The Scenic Rim and Byron Shire are not included, but will be in future local guide releases.
With 83,266 businesses at June 2025 this is by far the largest guide in the network (ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025). Construction leads with 15,355, then property and rentals at 12,135 and professional services at 11,182. Behind the towers it is a tradie city: builders, electricians, tilers and landscapers working the northern estates.
Every day, every listed website and business is scanned again. A website that is slow, blocked or times out is never a reason to remove a listing. A listing is removed only when the business is confirmed as no longer operating, or the owner says so. Builders, plumbers and electricians carry the licence number matched to the Queensland QBCC register.
The only ordering rule: claimed pages first. Nothing is paid for, and there are no ads.
First month on the Coast? New to the Gold Coast is the short list: a GP, a mechanic, a hairdresser, a gym, suburb by suburb from Coolangatta to Ormeau.
Marlowe Bennett runs this guide. He founded Coastworks AI, a Queensland consultancy that builds websites, email marketing and AI automations for small businesses, after 30 years in service businesses, and he pays for the guide and runs the system behind it.
That system scans every listed website each day; anything it cannot verify itself waits for Marlowe and his team to check. Nothing on a listing is influenced by Coastworks AI. Questions about a listing go to [email protected] or 0495 039 007.
Which listings are offered to Google, and how a listing is added, checked, claimed, fixed or removed: how this guide is built. The same guide runs in other regions, built the same way: all the local business guides. Business owners can also ask for a free Growth and Automation Audit of their own website.
The same daily-checked guide runs in other regions, built the same way by Coastworks AI.
The full breakdown by suburb and category is at the numbers.