Cairns

Business trends

There were an estimated 14,691 total GST registered businesses in Cairns in the Dec-23 quarter. There were 164 new businesses and 313 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 May 2024

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Business trends by industry sector
Cairns - All industries
QuarterNumber of registered businessesNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Dec-2023 14,691164313-149
Sep-2023 14,840308500-192
Jun-2023 15,032342276+66
Mar-2023 14,966472288+184
Dec-2022 14,782440320+120
Sep-2022 14,662586505+81
Jun-2022 14,581483300+183
Mar-2022 14,398545271+274
Dec-2021 14,124417276+141
Sep-2021 13,983616438+178
Jun-2021 13,805451203+248
Mar-2021 13,557390283+107
Dec-2020 13,450329239+90
Sep-2020 13,360483292+191
Jun-2020 13,169290182+108
Mar-2020 13,061306249+57
Dec-2019 13,004306266+40
Sep-2019 12,964486339+147
Jun-2019 12,817367244+123
Mar-2019 12,694354180+174
Dec-2018 12,520294211+83
Sep-2018 12,437471260+211
Jun-2018 12,226336361-25
Mar-2018 12,251329168+161
Dec-2017 12,090332246+86
Sep-2017 12,004543371+172
Jun-2017 11,832378364+14
Mar-2017 11,818351174+177
Dec-2016 11,641273270+3
Sep-2016 11,638414452-38
Jun-2016 11,676325321+4
Mar-2016 11,672290214+76
Dec-2015 11,596288352-64
Sep-2015 11,660428461-33
Jun-2015 11,693247377-130
Mar-2015 11,823262346-84

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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