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A smart place for business

As Australian businesses look outside major cities to establish, relocate or expand, Queensland’s Sunshine Coast is firmly in the spotlight.

The Sunshine Coast offers opportunities in a diverse range of growth industries, an emerging city centre which is already becoming a vibrant commercial and leisure precinct and a local government that supports new and existing businesses to establish and grow.

Over the past 15 years, economic growth on the Sunshine Coast has outperformed almost every other regional economy in Australia, sparking a wave of new residential, office and retail development.

The booming economy is being propelled forward by a highly educated, highly motivated workforce and a uniquely entrepreneurial culture.

GRP

$20.96

billion1

8.1%

Annual GRP growth

(to end June 2022)1

$19.5 billion

Infrastructure projects underway or recently completed

356,000+

people

35,500+

businesses

$6.49

billion

exports

2.8%

unemployment rate (March 2023)

↓ 26%

decrease (YOY)

$20.96 billion

GRP

+8.1%

growth

$19.5 billion

public and private investment planned/underway

$6.48 billion

exports of goods and services produced in region

35,500+

businesses

2.8%

unemployment rate

-26%

decrease in unemployment

+7.3%

annual change in local jobs

Source: economy.id, Sunshine Coast Region, for the financial year ending June 2022

Future focused

Be perfectly positioned to tackle bold new ways of working and embrace new opportunities emerging from a changing world.

Fast facts

Connections

Proposed Maroochdore City Centre
Image: Artists impression of the new Maroochydore City Centre

Regional Economic Development Strategy

The Regional Economic Development Strategy (REDS) was developed in 2013 to provide a 20-year vision and blueprint for sustainable economic growth in the region.

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