City of Brimbank

Business trends

There were an estimated 22,810 total GST registered businesses in the City of Brimbank in the Sep-23 quarter. There were 457 new businesses and 697 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.

COVID-19 pandemic is producing business conditions substantially different from normal. Using the Business Trends page will allow users to monitor the impact of COVID-19 locally and particularly how each industry is being affected. This dataset should be viewed in conjunction with COVID-19 Economic Outlook page to understand the magnitude and the direction of the impact of COVID-19 on economic value and employment.

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 22nd of May 2023

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Business trends by industry sector
City of Brimbank - All industries
QuarterNumber of registered businessesNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Sep-2023 22,810457697-240
Jun-2023 23,050580472+108
Mar-2023 22,942773455+318
Dec-2022 22,624776542+234
Sep-2022 22,3901,0391,112-73
Jun-2022 22,463740812-72
Mar-2022 22,535932444+488
Dec-2021 22,047882361+521
Sep-2021 21,5261,903527+1,376
Jun-2021 20,1501,157330+827
Mar-2021 19,323974313+661
Dec-2020 18,662638227+411
Sep-2020 18,251881359+522
Jun-2020 17,729552222+330
Mar-2020 17,399737336+401
Dec-2019 16,998645318+327
Sep-2019 16,671993352+641
Jun-2019 16,030630309+321
Mar-2019 15,709690237+453
Dec-2018 15,256552267+285
Sep-2018 14,971826360+466
Jun-2018 14,505564419+145
Mar-2018 14,360609174+435
Dec-2017 13,925532345+187
Sep-2017 13,738919513+406
Jun-2017 13,332505477+28
Mar-2017 13,304577181+396
Dec-2016 12,908541251+290
Sep-2016 12,618802582+220
Jun-2016 12,398413375+38
Mar-2016 12,360445201+244
Dec-2015 12,116433386+47
Sep-2015 12,069672591+81
Jun-2015 11,988339397-58
Mar-2015 12,046305366-61

Source: Australian Business Register. ©2020 Compiled and presented in economy.id by .id (informed decisions).

Please refer to specific data notes for more information

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