City of Adelaide

Business trends

There were an estimated 13,539 total GST registered businesses in the City of Adelaide in the Mar-24 quarter. There were 264 new businesses and 201 business GST cancellations in the same quarter.

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 August 2024

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Business trends by industry sector
City of Adelaide - All industries
QuarterNumber of registered businessesNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Mar-2024 13,539264201+63
Dec-2023 13,476299198+101
Sep-2023 13,375431298+133
Jun-2023 13,242315193+122
Mar-2023 13,120342198+144
Dec-2022 12,976331242+89
Sep-2022 12,887420296+124
Jun-2022 12,763302176+126
Mar-2022 12,637315164+151
Dec-2021 12,486348197+151
Sep-2021 12,335425300+125
Jun-2021 12,210328188+140
Mar-2021 12,070305177+128
Dec-2020 11,942247181+66
Sep-2020 11,876389253+136
Jun-2020 11,740210118+92
Mar-2020 11,648286129+157
Dec-2019 11,491254172+82
Sep-2019 11,409367205+162
Jun-2019 11,247311166+145
Mar-2019 11,102284133+151
Dec-2018 10,951239140+99
Sep-2018 10,852385334+51
Jun-2018 10,801236252-16
Mar-2018 10,817254118+136
Dec-2017 10,681254187+67
Sep-2017 10,614400277+123
Jun-2017 10,491270237+33
Mar-2017 10,458254119+135
Dec-2016 10,323226174+52
Sep-2016 10,271384274+110
Jun-2016 10,161236215+21
Mar-2016 10,140221146+75
Dec-2015 10,065178181-3
Sep-2015 10,068331254+77
Jun-2015 9,991220294-74
Mar-2015 10,065207203+4

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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