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JANUARY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	27 034	23 333	16 346	5 393	9 310	1 634	867	1 333	85 252
Seasonally Adjusted	26 624	23 632	15 637	5 376	9 269	1 564	948	1 369	84 420
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	0.6	0.5	-1.3	-0.1	-0.9	0.6	0.8	-0.5	-
Seasonally Adjusted	-4.2	1.8	-5.6	-1.3	-	-6.6	18.2	2.8	-1.9
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	4.0	2.4	-8.5	-1.8	2.8	-1.0	2.8	1.7	0.3
Seasonally Adjusted	1.6	2.8	-14.5	-8.6	-2.6	-9.7	6.6	5.1	-2.8
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(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.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

• Trend - The January 2011 trend estimate (85 252) has remained steady for the third consecutive month.
• Seasonally Adjusted - The January 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (84 420) decreased by 1.9% when compared with December 2010.

• Trend - When comparing trend estimates for January 2011 with December 2010, sales of Passenger vehicles increased by 0.8%, while sales of Sports utility vehicles decreased by 2.1%. Over the same period sales of Other vehicles increased by 0.2%.
• Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for January 2011 with December 2010, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 3.9%, while sales of Sports utility vehicles increased by 2.9%. Over the same period sales of Other vehicles decreased by 1.3%.

• Trend - Four of the eight states and territories have experienced an increase in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing January 2011 with December 2010. The Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage increase with 0.8%, followed by New South Wales (0.6%) and Tasmania (0.6%). Queensland recorded a percentage decrease of 1.3% over the same period. This was the largest percentage recorded for any state or territory.
• Seasonally Adjusted -In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in four of the eight states and territories for January 2011 when compared with December 2010. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease of 6.6%, followed by Queensland (5.6%) and New South Wales (4.2%). The largest percentage increase for new motor vehicle sales occurred in the Northern Territory (18.2%).

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

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
2009
	November	47 597	17 613	17 445	82 655	0.8	4.6	2.3	1.9
	December	48 050	18 275	17 645	83 970	1.0	3.8	1.1	1.6
2010
	January	48 648	18 708	17 653	85 009	1.2	2.4	-	1.2
	February	49 295	18 922	17 562	85 780	1.3	1.1	-0.5	0.9
	March	49 779	19 009	17 493	86 281	1.0	0.5	-0.4	0.6
	April	49 930	19 106	17 482	86 518	0.3	0.5	-0.1	0.3
	May	49 697	19 321	17 482	86 500	-0.5	1.1	-	-
	June	49 124	19 685	17 423	86 232	-1.2	1.9	-0.3	-0.3
	July	48 495	20 062	17 317	85 875	-1.3	1.9	-0.6	-0.4
	August	48 114	20 270	17 181	85 565	-0.8	1.0	-0.8	-0.4
	September	48 070	20 250	17 040	85 360	-0.1	-0.1	-0.8	-0.2
	October	48 333	20 032	16 943	85 308	0.5	-1.1	-0.6	-0.1
	November	48 707	19 688	16 897	85 292	0.8	-1.7	-0.3	-
	December	49 075	19 293	16 884	85 252	0.8	-2.0	-0.1	-
2011
	January	49 454	18 879	16 918	85 252	0.8	-2.1	0.2	-
Seasonally Adjusted
2009
	November	47 924	17 997	20 375	86 296	0.8	10.2	9.0	4.5
	December	46 435	19 536	22 926	88 897	-3.1	8.5	12.5	3.0
2010
	January	49 348	18 688	18 785	86 821	6.3	-4.3	-18.1	-2.3
	February	49 101	18 635	17 491	85 227	-0.5	-0.3	-6.9	-1.8
	March	49 544	18 647	17 195	85 386	0.9	0.1	-1.7	0.2
	April	53 714	20 694	17 417	91 825	8.4	11.0	1.3	7.5
	May	51 353	19 640	17 585	88 578	-4.4	-5.1	1.0	-3.5
	June	49 429	19 504	17 770	86 703	-3.7	-0.7	1.1	-2.1
	July	47 537	20 280	16 930	84 746	-3.8	4.0	-4.7	-2.3
	August	47 489	19 789	17 629	84 908	-0.1	-2.4	4.1	0.2
	September	48 381	20 803	16 815	85 998	1.9	5.1	-4.6	1.3
	October	47 737	20 614	16 751	85 102	-1.3	-0.9	-0.4	-1.0
	November	48 436	20 094	16 708	85 238	1.5	-2.5	-0.3	0.2
	December	50 759	18 146	17 185	86 090	4.8	-9.7	2.9	1.0
2011
	January	48 780	18 674	16 966	84 420	-3.9	2.9	-1.3	-1.9
Original
2009
	November	47 059	18 360	20 414	85 833	1.1	16.6	10.2	6.2
	December	46 623	19 616	22 469	88 708	-0.9	6.8	10.1	3.3
2010
	January	43 580	16 900	14 384	74 864	-6.5	-13.8	-36.0	-15.6
	February	47 829	18 073	16 317	82 219	9.7	6.9	13.4	9.8
	March	53 717	21 643	19 384	94 744	12.3	19.8	18.8	15.2
	April	47 156	18 067	16 178	81 401	-12.2	-16.5	-16.5	-14.1
	May	50 450	20 065	18 703	89 218	7.0	11.1	15.6	9.6
	June	60 820	24 597	23 305	108 722	20.6	22.6	24.6	21.9
	July	47 591	19 032	15 753	82 376	-21.8	-22.6	-32.4	-24.2
	August	46 504	18 515	17 103	82 122	-2.3	-2.7	8.6	-0.3
	September	48 763	19 684	16 607	85 054	4.9	6.3	-2.9	3.6
	October	45 268	19 348	16 309	80 925	-7.2	-1.7	-1.8	-4.9
	November	49 405	20 806	17 131	87 342	9.1	7.5	5.0	7.9
	December	51 039	18 555	16 993	86 587	3.3	-10.8	-0.8	-0.9
2011
	January	43 539	17 032	13 013	73 584	-14.7	-8.2	-23.4	-15.0
- 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
2009
	November	25 527	21 964	17 584	5 399	8 524	1 551	823	1 285	82 655
	December	25 803	22 402	17 765	5 455	8 807	1 605	835	1 298	83 970
2010
	January	25 989	22 797	17 867	5 490	9 060	1 651	844	1 311	85 009
	February	26 122	23 145	17 890	5 518	9 253	1 677	849	1 328	85 780
	March	26 216	23 437	17 822	5 546	9 388	1 672	853	1 347	86 281
	April	26 280	23 634	17 676	5 579	9 486	1 639	858	1 366	86 518
	May	26 313	23 691	17 490	5 604	9 559	1 594	866	1 384	86 500
	June	26 281	23 593	17 311	5 605	9 622	1 553	872	1 395	86 232
	July	26 231	23 386	17 197	5 583	9 678	1 534	871	1 395	85 875
	August	26 229	23 190	17 121	5 538	9 698	1 539	864	1 386	85 565
	September	26 318	23 075	17 036	5 487	9 654	1 561	856	1 373	85 360
	October	26 489	23 063	16 932	5 449	9 575	1 588	852	1 360	85 308
	November	26 684	23 120	16 770	5 421	9 486	1 610	854	1 348	85 292
	December	26 862	23 209	16 559	5 400	9 398	1 624	860	1 340	85 252
2011
	January	27 034	23 333	16 346	5 393	9 310	1 634	867	1 333	85 252
Seasonally Adjusted
2009
	November	26 396	23 611	18 173	5 710	8 754	1 450	864	1 338	86 296
	December	27 749	22 940	19 288	5 912	9 133	1 762	820	1 293	88 897
2010
	January	26 216	22 997	18 285	5 881	9 517	1 732	889	1 303	86 821
	February	26 086	22 754	17 771	5 419	9 437	1 634	796	1 328	85 227
	March	25 873	23 743	17 270	5 432	9 157	1 714	854	1 343	85 386
	April	26 663	25 803	18 048	5 662	11 767	1 646	862	1 374	91 825
	May	26 436	23 965	17 867	5 603	10 818	1 600	879	1 411	88 578
	June	26 509	23 823	17 310	5 728	9 571	1 542	848	1 371	86 703
	July	25 758	23 139	16 656	5 513	9 884	1 495	906	1 395	84 746
	August	26 282	23 063	16 770	5 483	9 620	1 455	853	1 382	84 908
	September	26 360	22 815	17 430	5 624	9 835	1 656	874	1 405	85 998
	October	26 251	23 309	17 166	5 274	9 340	1 552	828	1 382	85 102
	November	26 413	22 882	17 014	5 456	9 697	1 641	853	1 282	85 238
	December	27 786	23 218	16 566	5 449	9 265	1 674	802	1 331	86 090
2011
	January	26 624	23 632	15 637	5 376	9 269	1 564	948	1 369	84 420
Original
2009
	November	26 559	23 417	17 719	5 698	8 702	1 619	810	1 309	85 833
	December	26 848	23 398	18 995	6 213	8 967	2 242	737	1 308	88 708
2010
	January	22 820	19 746	15 253	5 151	8 521	1 487	716	1 170	74 864
	February	25 708	21 924	16 744	5 242	9 048	1 474	742	1 337	82 219
	March	29 083	26 380	19 480	5 950	9 636	1 711	1 038	1 466	94 744
	April	23 616	22 660	16 326	4 944	10 331	1 406	872	1 246	81 401
	May	26 531	23 994	18 370	5 798	10 604	1 527	997	1 397	89 218
	June	33 240	29 192	22 956	7 109	11 647	1 779	1 133	1 666	108 722
	July	25 050	22 499	16 516	5 208	9 572	1 292	881	1 358	82 376
	August	25 287	22 312	15 966	5 233	9 753	1 407	819	1 345	82 122
	September	26 079	22 511	16 939	5 548	10 121	1 715	785	1 356	85 054
	October	24 451	22 847	15 904	4 974	9 244	1 477	717	1 311	80 925
	November	27 422	23 491	17 025	5 651	9 738	1 902	809	1 304	87 342
	December	27 195	23 873	16 422	5 636	9 238	2 181	714	1 328	86 587
2011
	January	23 560	20 323	13 300	4 792	8 289	1 309	772	1 239	73 584
(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.