Ballina Shire

Business trends

The number of GST registered businesses in the Ballina Shire increased by 4 in the Mar-25 Quarter. There were 105 new GST registrations and 101 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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Ballina Shire - All industries
QuarterNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Mar-2025 105101+4
Dec-2024 101103-2
Sep-2024 157164-7
Jun-2024 14997+52
Mar-2024 14495+49
Dec-2023 123121+2
Sep-2023 224196+28
Jun-2023 146107+39
Mar-2023 142123+19
Dec-2022 108119-11
Sep-2022 1781780
Jun-2022 13767+70
Mar-2022 12466+58
Dec-2021 12177+44
Sep-2021 225148+77
Jun-2021 14470+74
Mar-2021 14578+67
Dec-2020 11666+50
Sep-2020 19896+102
Jun-2020 11249+63
Mar-2020 10875+33
Dec-2019 11169+42
Sep-2019 166138+28
Jun-2019 9872+26
Mar-2019 11936+83
Dec-2018 9559+36
Sep-2018 17097+73
Jun-2018 127110+17
Mar-2018 10751+56
Dec-2017 10370+33
Sep-2017 180112+68
Jun-2017 109131-22
Mar-2017 11848+70
Dec-2016 9264+28
Sep-2016 154134+20
Jun-2016 94126-32
Mar-2016 10454+50
Dec-2015 8295-13
Sep-2015 128113+15
Jun-2015 93126-33
Mar-2015 89106-17

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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