Townsville City Council

Business trends

There were an estimated 13,510 total GST registered businesses in the Townsville City Council in the Sep-23 quarter. There were 253 new businesses and 436 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
Townsville City Council - All industries
QuarterNumber of registered businessesNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Sep-2023 13,510253436-183
Jun-2023 13,693312244+68
Mar-2023 13,625437242+195
Dec-2022 13,430354308+46
Sep-2022 13,384520449+71
Jun-2022 13,313383250+133
Mar-2022 13,180451224+227
Dec-2021 12,953327259+68
Sep-2021 12,885525401+124
Jun-2021 12,761354190+164
Mar-2021 12,597354213+141
Dec-2020 12,456305211+94
Sep-2020 12,362449256+193
Jun-2020 12,169272161+111
Mar-2020 12,058331173+158
Dec-2019 11,900302219+83
Sep-2019 11,817415311+104
Jun-2019 11,713291189+102
Mar-2019 11,611308135+173
Dec-2018 11,438238184+54
Sep-2018 11,384413304+109
Jun-2018 11,275289308-19
Mar-2018 11,294315165+150
Dec-2017 11,144260274-14
Sep-2017 11,158417378+39
Jun-2017 11,119299329-30
Mar-2017 11,149307166+141
Dec-2016 11,008247286-39
Sep-2016 11,047389501-112
Jun-2016 11,159268404-136
Mar-2016 11,295247228+19
Dec-2015 11,276256355-99
Sep-2015 11,375358487-129
Jun-2015 11,504286359-73
Mar-2015 11,577272362-90

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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