Northern Beaches Council area

Business trends

There were an estimated 37,850 total GST registered businesses in the Northern Beaches Council area in the Mar-24 quarter. There were 869 new businesses and 589 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
Northern Beaches Council area - All industries
QuarterNumber of registered businessesNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Mar-2024 37,850869589+280
Dec-2023 37,570762729+33
Sep-2023 37,5371,1731,082+91
Jun-2023 37,446893622+271
Mar-2023 37,175871582+289
Dec-2022 36,886743746-3
Sep-2022 36,8891,1281,019+109
Jun-2022 36,780743489+254
Mar-2022 36,526753546+207
Dec-2021 36,319783599+184
Sep-2021 36,1351,328982+346
Jun-2021 35,789921511+410
Mar-2021 35,379844521+323
Dec-2020 35,056801601+200
Sep-2020 34,8561,183795+388
Jun-2020 34,468701402+299
Mar-2020 34,169828556+272
Dec-2019 33,897748567+181
Sep-2019 33,7161,143755+388
Jun-2019 33,328748574+174
Mar-2019 33,154824472+352
Dec-2018 32,802804495+309
Sep-2018 32,4931,222763+459
Jun-2018 32,034836814+22
Mar-2018 32,012841398+443
Dec-2017 31,569768603+165
Sep-2017 31,4041,2391,044+195
Jun-2017 31,209822819+3
Mar-2017 31,206890369+521
Dec-2016 30,685707499+208
Sep-2016 30,4771,1951,109+86
Jun-2016 30,391669755-86
Mar-2016 30,477755459+296
Dec-2015 30,181667733-66
Sep-2015 30,2471,0191,110-91
Jun-2015 30,338662872-210
Mar-2015 30,548640721-81

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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