A free directory of businesses in Mackay, from the northern beaches and the city to Sarina, Mirani and Calen. As of October 2026 it lists 2,210 businesses in 274 categories across 70 suburbs and towns.
Mackay is a working city that grows with the mines, the cane and the port: 129,253 people at June 2025, up 9% in 10 years (ABS Regional population 2024-25), and projected to add another 15,000-plus residents in the years ahead (Queensland Government projections, 2025 edition).
The region sits inside a regional Queensland that is drawing people out of the capitals at a record rate (Regional Australia Institute, Regional Movers Index, March quarter 2026).
Stage 1 of the Mackay Base Hospital expansion is funded for at least 128 new overnight beds, a bigger emergency department and a new birth centre, with main construction from 2027 and completion by 2030, and the state has funded infrastructure for 2,977 new homes across Mackay and the Whitsundays (Queensland Government statements, 2025 and 2026).
Workers arrive on contract and families arrive for good; either way, the first calls once they settle in are a GP, a mechanic and a hairdresser. This guide is for them, and for the business owners who have been here all along.
This guide covers Mackay Regional Council: the city and harbour, the northern beaches from Blacks Beach to Eimeo and Bucasia, Sarina to the south, and the Pioneer Valley towns of Marian, Mirani and Finch Hatton up to Calen.
The Whitsundays and the Isaac mining towns are separate councils and are not included yet, but may be included in future local guide releases.
Agriculture leads with 2,028 businesses at June 2025, construction follows at 1,720, and a large other-services group of 1,288 covers the repair, maintenance and personal-service trades that keep a mining and cane town running (ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025). That is 11,184 businesses, most of them small.
The Bucasia bakery, the Sarina mechanic, the city physio: the website and business behind every listing is scanned again every day. A website that loads slowly, blocks automated visitors or times out is not a reason to remove a listing.
A listing is removed when the business is confirmed as no longer operating, or when its owner tells us it has closed. Builders and trades show their QBCC licence number, matched to the Queensland register each week. Claimed pages go first, and the order cannot be bought.
On contract here or relocating long term? New to Mackay has the first-week list: the GP, the dentist, the mechanic and a harbour cafe, suburb by suburb.
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.