Bunbury is about 175 km south of Perth, and the City promotes it as Western Australia's second city, less than two hours south of the capital. The urban area had 76,452 residents at the 2021 census. Greater Bunbury is planned as one region across four councils, the City of Bunbury and the Shires of Harvey, Dardanup and Capel, so the city's customers live as much in Australind, Eaton and Dalyellup as inside its own boundary. Since 2024 the Wilman Wadandi Highway has linked Forrest Highway at Australind with Bussell Highway at Dalyellup.
Industry around Bunbury centres on the port and mineral processing. The Port of Bunbury, run by Southern Ports, handles about 16.9 million tonnes of trade, including alumina, grain, spodumene, caustic soda, woodchips, mineral and silica sands, copper concentrate, coal, fertiliser and fuel, and Southern Ports calls it the world's largest lithium export port. Alumina from the Worsley refinery, majority-owned by South32, travels about 55 km to the port for shipping. The Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area, about 17 km north-east of the city in the Shire of Harvey, covers 7,510 hectares, with Albemarle's lithium hydroxide processing, Simcoa's silicon production and Tronox's Bunbury pigment operation among the businesses listed there. Sites like these buy in services, and the contractors who supply them are usually selling to a procurement officer, not a householder.
Tourism brings a different customer. The Dolphin Discovery Centre on Koombana Drive has a seasonal, free dolphin interaction zone, eco-cruises all year, swims with the dolphins from November to April and a 60-minute cruise past the working harbour. The Bunbury Geographe tourism region groups Bunbury with Capel's old tuart trees and long beaches, the trails of the Collie River Valley, the food and wine of the Ferguson Valley in Dardanup, and the farmland and produce of the Harvey region. Many visitors plan on their phones, some of them on the drive down from Perth, so a tour, café or accommodation site needs times, prices and a way to book near the top.
Edith Cowan University and South Regional TAFE both have Bunbury campuses, and Bunbury Airport is 8 km south-east of the centre. For trades, our pages on Bunbury tradie websites, plumbers and electricians go into licensing, Aqwest and bushfire paperwork; this page is the general one for every kind of business.
We're an Adelaide team and work with South West businesses by phone and email; we don't travel to Bunbury. We haven't built a site for a WA client yet, so the examples below come from Adelaide and regional New South Wales. For the capital, see web design in Perth, and for the coast north of Mandurah, our Rockingham page.