A free directory of businesses on the Sunshine Coast, in Noosa, the hinterland and Gympie. As of October 2026 it lists 11,322 businesses in 393 categories across 193 suburbs.
This guide exists for two groups of people: local business owners who want to be found, and new arrivals who don't yet know who to call for their services and trades.
Almost 9 in every 100 Australians who left a capital city for the regions in the March quarter of 2026 came to the Sunshine Coast, more than to any other region in the country (Regional Australia Institute, Regional Movers Index, June 2026).
The population has grown 29% in 10 years to 381,957 (ABS Regional population 2024-25), and the Queensland Government projects another 98,000 residents by 2041 (population projections, 2025 edition).
The first stage of the Sunshine Coast rail line, Beerwah to Caloundra, is funded at $5.5 billion with contracts signed in May 2026 and 2,200 local jobs attached, and the $142 million Kawana indoor sports centre is due in 2027 (Queensland Government statements, 2024 to 2026).
Every one of those new arrivals needs services like a plumber, a GP, a hairdresser and a gym, and has no idea yet who the locals trust.
Three councils make up the guide's patch: Sunshine Coast, Noosa and Gympie. That means the beach towns from Caloundra up to Noosa, the hinterland of Maleny, Montville, Nambour and Eumundi, and Gympie with the Mary Valley behind it. Gympie is in this guide rather than in Wide Bay because its shopping, trade and hospital traffic runs south.
Moreton Bay and Bribie Island have their own guide.
Building is the biggest trade here: 8,376 construction businesses in the Sunshine Coast council area alone at June 2025, ahead of 5,346 professional firms and 4,955 in property and rentals (ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025). Noosa adds 8,016 businesses of its own and Gympie 5,237.
Most are exceptional operators, either a one person outfit or a small crew, which is exactly who a new resident should be able to search for.
A Buderim electrician and a Cotton Tree ice cream parlour get the same treatment: each one is scanned and verified every day. We won't remove a listing for a website that loads slowly, blocks automated visitors or times out. A listing comes off only when the business is confirmed as no longer operating, or when the owner tells us.
The licence shown for a builder or plumber is matched to the Queensland QBCC register. Claimed pages sit first; nobody pays for position.
Just moved here? Start at new to the coast: the sea-change basics, the trades people ask for first, and every suburb from Pelican Waters to Eumundi.
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.