City of Adelaide

Business trends

The number of GST registered businesses in the the City of Adelaide increased by 49 in the Jun-24 Quarter. There were 251 new GST registrations and 202 GST cancellations.

The Australian Government recently updated ABR data coding to align with the new Australian Statistical Geography. These changes were not communicated to ABR data users and caused anomalies in our published trend data due to previous processing methods. As a result, data for the last two quarters (Dec-23 and Mar-24) has been revised. More details are available here.

The Australian Business Register (ABR) is a register of all business entities and sole traders in Australia, based on Australian Business Numbers (ABNs), maintained by the Australian Taxation Office.

While ABR business data does not pick up all operations in a region (some companies are not registered at the location where they undertake commercial operations), the time-series data can be quite insightful. It can give you an indication of the short-term impacts of macro-events, and can also offer a sign as to how favourable local conditions are to establishing new businesses during normal times.

Changes in business counts by industry can show structural shifts within the economy and identify growth and declining industries. For example, growth industries will have high entry and exit rates due to the high failure rates of first movers and smaller high growth enterprises. Declining sectors will have low entry and high exit rates.

The raw business register dataset contains large numbers of ABNs which are not relevant to local government planning, including trusts, superannuation funds, non-active businesses and micro businesses not registered for GST. These have been filtered out of the data presented here, to provide a more meaningful dataset for Local Government Decision making.

Data are presented as aggregates of ABNs at the Local Government level for each of the time period. The graph of the number of GST registered businesses, the number of new GST registered businesses, and the number of cancelled GST registerations can be selected at the 1-digit ANZSIC classification level. For more information, including actual business locations and name and address details, LGAs are entitled to access the raw ABR unit record dataset directly from the ATO.

Data source

Australian Business Register - filtered counts - Current at November 2024

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City of Adelaide - All industries
QuarterNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Jun-2024 251202+49
Mar-2024 267204+63
Dec-2023 304200+104
Sep-2023 433296+137
Jun-2023 322194+128
Mar-2023 342195+147
Dec-2022 333241+92
Sep-2022 423296+127
Jun-2022 306176+130
Mar-2022 314164+150
Dec-2021 356198+158
Sep-2021 429298+131
Jun-2021 325185+140
Mar-2021 303178+125
Dec-2020 246180+66
Sep-2020 389250+139
Jun-2020 210117+93
Mar-2020 285129+156
Dec-2019 251169+82
Sep-2019 371204+167
Jun-2019 312166+146
Mar-2019 282133+149
Dec-2018 235139+96
Sep-2018 381333+48
Jun-2018 235253-18
Mar-2018 256116+140
Dec-2017 253188+65
Sep-2017 396277+119
Jun-2017 271237+34
Mar-2017 258119+139
Dec-2016 222175+47
Sep-2016 382271+111
Jun-2016 235215+20
Mar-2016 220145+75
Dec-2015 177181-4
Sep-2015 327254+73
Jun-2015 217295-78
Mar-2015 208202+6

Source: Australian Business Register. ©2024 Compiled and presented in economy.id by .id (informed decisions).

Please refer to specific data notes for more information

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