Georges River Council area

Business trends

The number of GST registered businesses in the Georges River Council area increased by 165 in the Mar-25 Quarter. There were 510 new GST registrations and 345 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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Georges River Council area - All industries
QuarterNew GST RegistrationCancelled GST RegistrationNet change
Mar-2025 510345+165
Dec-2024 498331+167
Sep-2024 718498+220
Jun-2024 530371+159
Mar-2024 578290+288
Dec-2023 501330+171
Sep-2023 750522+228
Jun-2023 562280+282
Mar-2023 569325+244
Dec-2022 486399+87
Sep-2022 727568+159
Jun-2022 484303+181
Mar-2022 518283+235
Dec-2021 488305+183
Sep-2021 676513+163
Jun-2021 532227+305
Mar-2021 530258+272
Dec-2020 448282+166
Sep-2020 638430+208
Jun-2020 372237+135
Mar-2020 515296+219
Dec-2019 447283+164
Sep-2019 688414+274
Jun-2019 459260+199
Mar-2019 490245+245
Dec-2018 447274+173
Sep-2018 678385+293
Jun-2018 517416+101
Mar-2018 498215+283
Dec-2017 427378+49
Sep-2017 707547+160
Jun-2017 500414+86
Mar-2017 492172+320
Dec-2016 449293+156
Sep-2016 697628+69
Jun-2016 470405+65
Mar-2016 450193+257
Dec-2015 418349+69
Sep-2015 655518+137
Jun-2015 394410-16
Mar-2015 392319+73

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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