9314.0 - Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, Dec 2014

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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)

Trend	30 256	25 776	18 105	5 657	9 104	1 404	917	1 399	92 618
Seasonally Adjusted	30 342	26 049	20 105	5 569	9 121	1 383	952	1 381	94 903
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	0.2	0.3	-0.2	-1.1	-1.3	-0.4	0.3	-1.2	-0.1
Seasonally Adjusted	1.5	0.8	12.8	-2.9	0.6	-1.5	5.3	-2.7	3.0
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	2.3	1.2	-5.3	-3.5	-8.1	-12.4	1.0	-7.5	-1.4
Seasonally Adjusted	-0.1	0.9	3.3	-4.5	-11.0	-16.2	4.1	-11.2	-1.0

(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.

DECEMBER KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

Trend estimates: The December 2014 trend estimate (92 618) has decreased by 0.1% when compared with November 2014. The trend estimate has now decreased by 0.1% for five consecutive months.
Seasonally adjusted estimates: The December 2014 seasonally adjusted estimate (94 903) has increased by 3.0% when compared with November 2014.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

Trend estimates: When comparing national trend estimates for December 2014 with November 2014, sales of Sports utility and Other vehicles both increased by 0.5% respectively. Over the same period, Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.8%.
Seasonally adjusted estimates: When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for December 2014 with November 2014, all vehicle categories recorded an increase in sales. Other vehicles recorded the largest increase (6.5%) while sales for Passenger and Sports utility vehicles increased by 2.8% and 1.2% respectively.

SALES BY STATE

Trend estimates: Five of the eight states and territories experienced a decrease in new motor vehicle sales when comparing December 2014 with November 2014. Western Australia recorded the largest percentage decrease (1.3%), followed by the Australian Capital Territory (1.2%) and South Australia (1.1%). Over the same period, both Victoria and the Northern Territory recorded the largest increase in sales of 0.3%.
Seasonally adjusted estimates: Five of the states and territories experienced an increase in new motor vehicle sales when comparing December 2014 with November 2014. Queensland recorded the largest percentage increase (12.8%) followed by the Northern Territory (5.3%) and New South Wales (1.5%). South Australia recorded the largest decrease in sales of 2.9%.

SUMMARY COMMENTARY

Graph Image for New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - long term

Footnote(s): Break in time series for trend between June and July 2000. See paragraph 13 of the Expanatory Notes.

Source(s): New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - long term-graph_update

Graph Image for New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - short term

Source(s): New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - short term-graph_update

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month

		Passenger vehicles	Sports utility vehicles	Other vehicles	Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend

2013
	October	47 328	27 860	19 219	94 407	-0.2	0.2	-	-
	November	47 163	27 907	19 208	94 279	-0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.1
	December	46 866	27 953	19 138	93 957	-0.6	0.2	-0.4	-0.3
2014
	January	46 418	28 020	19 025	93 462	-1.0	0.2	-0.6	-0.5
	February	45 879	28 168	18 904	92 951	-1.2	0.5	-0.6	-0.5
	March	45 355	28 390	18 857	92 601	-1.1	0.8	-0.2	-0.4
	April	44 906	28 676	18 913	92 495	-1.0	1.0	0.3	-0.1
	May	44 595	29 037	19 039	92 670	-0.7	1.3	0.7	0.2
	June	44 389	29 418	19 143	92 950	-0.5	1.3	0.5	0.3
	July	44 190	29 730	19 176	93 096	-0.4	1.1	0.2	0.2
	August	43 936	29 961	19 149	93 046	-0.6	0.8	-0.1	-0.1
	September	43 605	30 186	19 129	92 920	-0.8	0.7	-0.1	-0.1
	October	43 235	30 406	19 165	92 806	-0.8	0.7	0.2	-0.1
	November	42 879	30 601	19 248	92 728	-0.8	0.6	0.4	-0.1
	December	42 519	30 761	19 337	92 618	-0.8	0.5	0.5	-0.1
Seasonally Adjusted

2013
	October	46 973	27 056	19 072	93 101	-0.1	-2.0	0.1	-0.6
	November	47 689	28 321	19 591	95 602	1.5	4.7	2.7	2.7
	December	47 289	28 895	19 682	95 865	-0.8	2.0	0.5	0.3
2014
	January	46 070	27 723	18 854	92 647	-2.6	-4.1	-4.2	-3.4
	February	46 234	27 294	18 747	92 275	0.4	-1.5	-0.6	-0.4
	March	44 793	28 625	18 645	92 063	-3.1	4.9	-0.5	-0.2
	April	45 142	28 688	18 329	92 160	0.8	0.2	-1.7	0.1
	May	44 036	29 241	19 135	92 412	-2.5	1.9	4.4	0.3
	June	44 688	29 495	20 531	94 714	1.5	0.9	7.3	2.5
	July	44 482	30 072	18 528	93 083	-0.5	2.0	-9.8	-1.7
	August	43 689	29 155	18 892	91 736	-1.8	-3.1	2.0	-1.4
	September	43 838	31 148	19 168	94 154	0.3	6.8	1.5	2.6
	October	43 345	30 073	19 188	92 606	-1.1	-3.5	0.1	-1.6
	November	42 719	30 549	18 830	92 098	-1.4	1.6	-1.9	-0.5
	December	43 930	30 915	20 059	94 903	2.8	1.2	6.5	3.0
Original

2013
	October	46 939	26 258	19 406	92 603	-0.4	0.2	0.5	-0.1
	November	49 089	28 889	18 946	96 924	4.6	10.0	-2.4	4.7
	December	47 686	28 543	20 527	96 756	-2.9	-1.2	8.3	-0.2
2014
	January	41 626	25 868	14 791	82 285	-12.7	-9.4	-27.9	-15.0
	February	43 651	25 867	17 300	86 818	4.9	-	17.0	5.5
	March	47 079	30 778	19 410	97 267	7.9	19.0	12.2	12.0
	April	39 027	25 350	16 333	80 710	-17.1	-17.6	-15.9	-17.0
	May	43 819	30 730	20 013	94 562	12.3	21.2	22.5	17.2
	June	53 844	36 846	27 619	118 309	22.9	19.9	38.0	25.1
	July	43 464	28 805	17 598	89 867	-19.3	-21.8	-36.3	-24.0
	August	42 658	27 543	17 956	88 157	-1.9	-4.4	2.0	-1.9
	September	45 194	30 027	19 757	94 978	5.9	9.0	10.0	7.7
	October	43 126	28 835	19 275	91 236	-4.6	-4.0	-2.4	-3.9
	November	43 063	31 032	18 137	92 232	-0.1	7.6	-5.9	1.1
	December	45 051	30 666	21 092	96 809	4.6	-1.2	16.3	5.0

- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

New motor vehicle sales by state/territory of registration

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend

2013
	October	29 478	25 867	19 153	5 826	10 051	1 610	936	1 486	94 407
	November	29 540	25 749	19 128	5 854	9 973	1 610	919	1 506	94 279
	December	29 575	25 469	19 122	5 861	9 907	1 602	908	1 513	93 957
2014
	January	29 555	25 119	19 086	5 855	9 861	1 580	907	1 500	93 462
	February	29 478	24 844	18 999	5 843	9 851	1 547	915	1 474	92 951
	March	29 399	24 755	18 866	5 833	9 866	1 511	925	1 446	92 601
	April	29 356	24 864	18 710	5 833	9 890	1 481	932	1 429	92 495
	May	29 425	25 094	18 584	5 843	9 903	1 459	933	1 429	92 670
	June	29 591	25 324	18 489	5 859	9 878	1 444	926	1 441	92 950
	July	29 776	25 455	18 410	5 862	9 792	1 432	914	1 453	93 096
	August	29 919	25 508	18 330	5 850	9 655	1 424	904	1 457	93 046
	September	30 031	25 549	18 252	5 819	9 503	1 418	901	1 448	92 920
	October	30 128	25 610	18 189	5 771	9 354	1 414	906	1 433	92 806
	November	30 210	25 692	18 146	5 719	9 221	1 409	915	1 417	92 728
	December	30 256	25 776	18 105	5 657	9 104	1 404	917	1 399	92 618
Seasonally Adjusted

2013
	October	28 733	25 639	18 861	5 789	10 038	1 649	932	1 459	93 101
	November	29 780	26 731	19 062	6 004	9 895	1 653	939	1 538	95 602
	December	30 373	25 822	19 462	5 833	10 253	1 652	915	1 555	95 865
2014
	January	29 661	24 496	19 236	5 747	9 534	1 559	880	1 534	92 647
	February	29 142	24 494	18 980	5 899	9 879	1 502	910	1 468	92 275
	March	29 093	24 820	18 605	5 921	9 842	1 491	875	1 416	92 063
	April	29 356	24 420	18 823	5 755	9 857	1 502	1 055	1 392	92 160
	May	29 383	25 269	18 425	5 697	9 914	1 471	849	1 404	92 412
	June	29 942	25 889	18 804	6 033	10 094	1 507	982	1 462	94 714
	July	29 664	25 637	18 255	5 817	9 850	1 456	911	1 492	93 083
	August	29 668	25 201	17 990	5 845	9 328	1 389	865	1 450	91 736
	September	30 215	25 453	18 854	5 891	9 770	1 600	898	1 473	94 154
	October	30 413	25 401	17 961	5 753	9 343	1 416	912	1 407	92 606
	November	29 898	25 846	17 828	5 733	9 065	1 405	904	1 420	92 098
	December	30 342	26 049	20 105	5 569	9 121	1 383	952	1 381	94 903
Original

2013
	October	28 519	25 961	18 057	5 732	10 305	1 737	853	1 439	92 603
	November	30 496	27 547	18 381	6 216	9 815	1 984	904	1 581	96 924
	December	29 966	26 316	19 718	6 039	10 287	2 009	835	1 586	96 756
2014
	January	27 080	21 289	16 660	5 082	8 707	1 280	713	1 474	82 285
	February	27 585	23 411	17 367	5 567	9 427	1 263	791	1 407	86 818
	March	30 656	26 311	20 073	6 184	10 117	1 457	998	1 471	97 267
	April	25 625	21 108	17 041	4 897	8 604	1 182	1 070	1 183	80 710
	May	29 788	26 042	19 252	5 764	9 920	1 409	978	1 409	94 562
	June	37 575	31 327	24 643	7 531	12 440	1 743	1 258	1 792	118 309
	July	28 587	24 756	17 767	5 514	9 556	1 302	913	1 472	89 867
	August	28 404	24 184	17 169	5 618	9 137	1 418	807	1 420	88 157
	September	30 388	25 670	18 890	6 099	9 882	1 734	904	1 411	94 978
	October	29 839	25 559	16 990	5 628	9 534	1 488	826	1 372	91 236
	November	30 419	26 282	16 814	5 888	8 876	1 650	841	1 462	92 232
	December	30 257	26 783	20 853	5 830	9 143	1 645	894	1 404	96 809

(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.

NOTES

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