Central Coast Council area

Business trends

The number of GST registered businesses in the Central Coast Council area increased by 152 in the Mar-25 Quarter. There were 816 new GST registrations and 664 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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Central Coast Council area - All industries
QuarterNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Mar-2025 816664+152
Dec-2024 740688+52
Sep-2024 1,074965+109
Jun-2024 835630+205
Mar-2024 881557+324
Dec-2023 763651+112
Sep-2023 1,148989+159
Jun-2023 893588+305
Mar-2023 874553+321
Dec-2022 793672+121
Sep-2022 1,151945+206
Jun-2022 843509+334
Mar-2022 871525+346
Dec-2021 826479+347
Sep-2021 1,163803+360
Jun-2021 862467+395
Mar-2021 773454+319
Dec-2020 673392+281
Sep-2020 1,095540+555
Jun-2020 682348+334
Mar-2020 691384+307
Dec-2019 618533+85
Sep-2019 1,017755+262
Jun-2019 686396+290
Mar-2019 724335+389
Dec-2018 670347+323
Sep-2018 1,013621+392
Jun-2018 729693+36
Mar-2018 704319+385
Dec-2017 595483+112
Sep-2017 1,020756+264
Jun-2017 655652+3
Mar-2017 747329+418
Dec-2016 573466+107
Sep-2016 1,034884+150
Jun-2016 604714-110
Mar-2016 630333+297
Dec-2015 546635-89
Sep-2015 878910-32
Jun-2015 528648-120
Mar-2015 502586-84

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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