Sunshine Coast

Business trends

The number of GST registered businesses in the Sunshine Coast increased by 33 in the Dec-24 Quarter. There were 1,012 new GST registrations and 979 GST cancellations.

The Australian Government recently updated ABR data coding to align with the new Australian Statistical Geography. These changes were not communicated to ABR data users and caused anomalies in our published trend data due to previous processing methods. As a result, data for the last two quarters (Dec-23 and Mar-24) has been revised. More details are available here.

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 April 2025

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Sunshine Coast - All industries
QuarterNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Dec-2024 1,012979+33
Sep-2024 1,5511,307+244
Jun-2024 1,202875+327
Mar-2024 1,288818+470
Dec-2023 1,157919+238
Sep-2023 1,6691,359+310
Jun-2023 1,231777+454
Mar-2023 1,304770+534
Dec-2022 1,099972+127
Sep-2022 1,6721,364+308
Jun-2022 1,226715+511
Mar-2022 1,276720+556
Dec-2021 1,092809+283
Sep-2021 1,7241,257+467
Jun-2021 1,265648+617
Mar-2021 1,286701+585
Dec-2020 1,078639+439
Sep-2020 1,492887+605
Jun-2020 879526+353
Mar-2020 1,036619+417
Dec-2019 855710+145
Sep-2019 1,392914+478
Jun-2019 966601+365
Mar-2019 970541+429
Dec-2018 886552+334
Sep-2018 1,351863+488
Jun-2018 930945-15
Mar-2018 1,004514+490
Dec-2017 913709+204
Sep-2017 1,3651,097+268
Jun-2017 953966-13
Mar-2017 1,032468+564
Dec-2016 889680+209
Sep-2016 1,3221,242+80
Jun-2016 949955-6
Mar-2016 947572+375
Dec-2015 765799-34
Sep-2015 1,3041,172+132
Jun-2015 8081,001-193
Mar-2015 792747+45

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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