9314.0 - Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, Sep 2011

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ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/10/2011

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SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

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

Trend	26 587	22 904	18 061	5 695	9 237	1 475	872	1 344	86 174
Seasonally Adjusted	26 641	22 944	18 333	5 830	9 347	1 439	980	1 357	86 872
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	1.4	2.0	1.6	3.1	1.0	2.0	2.5	1.8	1.7
Seasonally Adjusted	-2.9	-2.3	-0.7	4.9	-1.7	-9.4	21.1	1.9	-1.5
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	1.7	-0.3	6.7	4.8	-4.3	-5.5	2.1	-1.7	1.5
Seasonally Adjusted	1.4	0.4	5.4	4.7	-4.6	-13.3	11.9	-2.6	1.3

(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.

SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

The September 2011 trend estimate (86 174) has increased by 1.7% when compared with August 2011.
Seasonally Adjusted - The September 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (86 872) decreased by 1.5% when compared with August 2011.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

Trend - When comparing national trend estimates for September 2011 with August 2011, sales of Passenger, Sports utility and Other vehicles increased by 0.8%, 4.1% and 1.5% respectively.
Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for September 2011 with August 2011, sales of Passenger and Sports utility vehicles decreased by 0.9% and 5.6% respectively. Over the same period Other vehicles increased by 2.3%.

SALES BY STATE

All eight states and territories have experienced an increase in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing September 2011 with August 2011. South Australia recorded the largest percentage increase (3.1%), followed by the Northern Territory (2.5%), Victoria and Tasmania (both 2.0%).
In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in five of the eight states and territories when comparing September 2011 with August 2011. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease of 9.4%, followed by New South Wales (2.9%) and Victoria (2.3%). Over the same period the Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage increase of 21.1%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

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October 2011	15 November 2011
November 2011	15 December 2011
December 2011	18 January 2012
January 2012	15 February 2012
February 2012	15 March 2012
March 2012	17 April 2012

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for September 2011.

DATA NOTES

The earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan on 11 March 2011 may have affected new motor vehicle sales in Australia due to associated delays in delivery of Japanese manufactured vehicles. Although the quality of the estimates in this publication are not affected, impacts from the earthquake and tsunami could continue to disrupt supply of new motor vehicles to Australia.

Widespread flooding in the eastern states, particularly Queensland, and other natural disasters in early 2011 have not adversely affected the quality of estimates in this release. These events may have had an impact on the number of new vehicles sales since February 2011. However, as new motor vehicle sales are influenced by a range of factors, it is not possible to quantify the specific impact of these events.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.

SUMMARY COMMENTARY

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term
Graph: New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles—Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term
Graph: 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

2010
	July	48 693	20 112	17 368	86 173	-1.5	1.5	-0.8	-0.7
	August	48 129	20 227	17 162	85 518	-1.2	0.6	-1.2	-0.8
	September	47 835	20 145	16 939	84 918	-0.6	-0.4	-1.3	-0.7
	October	47 804	19 893	16 826	84 523	-0.1	-1.2	-0.7	-0.5
	November	47 973	19 591	16 904	84 469	0.4	-1.5	0.5	-0.1
	December	48 076	19 306	17 132	84 515	0.2	-1.5	1.3	0.1
2011
	January	47 866	18 976	17 341	84 182	-0.4	-1.7	1.2	-0.4
	February	47 319	18 588	17 409	83 316	-1.1	-2.0	0.4	-1.0
	March	46 647	18 293	17 314	82 254	-1.4	-1.6	-0.5	-1.3
	April	46 094	18 285	17 122	81 501	-1.2	-	-1.1	-0.9
	May	45 828	18 598	16 975	81 401	-0.6	1.7	-0.9	-0.1
	June	45 884	19 189	16 969	82 042	0.1	3.2	-	0.8
	July	46 139	20 001	17 111	83 251	0.6	4.2	0.8	1.5
	August	46 491	20 882	17 339	84 712	0.8	4.4	1.3	1.8
	September	46 844	21 737	17 594	86 174	0.8	4.1	1.5	1.7
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	July	47 396	20 033	16 874	84 303	-5.3	1.1	-6.2	-4.1
	August	47 145	19 652	17 522	84 319	-0.5	-1.9	3.8	-
	September	48 300	20 728	16 769	85 797	2.4	5.5	-4.3	1.8
	October	47 462	20 427	16 621	84 510	-1.7	-1.5	-0.9	-1.5
	November	48 180	20 036	16 710	84 927	1.5	-1.9	0.5	0.5
	December	50 940	17 988	17 243	86 171	5.7	-10.2	3.2	1.5
2011
	January	47 880	18 564	16 984	83 428	-6.0	3.2	-1.5	-3.2
	February	46 964	19 352	17 657	83 973	-1.9	4.2	4.0	0.7
	March	47 332	21 325	18 360	87 017	0.8	10.2	4.0	3.6
	April	47 124	19 097	17 146	83 367	-0.4	-10.4	-6.6	-4.2
	May	43 654	16 919	16 364	76 936	-7.4	-11.4	-4.6	-7.7
	June	44 954	17 188	15 820	77 962	3.0	1.6	-3.3	1.3
	July	46 859	20 861	17 570	85 290	4.2	21.4	11.1	9.4
	August	47 504	22 958	17 731	88 192	1.4	10.1	0.9	3.4
	September	47 055	21 679	18 137	86 872	-0.9	-5.6	2.3	-1.5
Original

2010
	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
	February	45 455	18 916	16 525	80 896	4.4	11.1	27.0	9.9
	March	50 228	23 066	20 690	93 984	10.5	21.9	25.2	16.2
	April	41 565	17 054	15 595	74 214	-17.2	-26.1	-24.6	-21.0
	May	r42 577	17 121	17 703	r77 401	2.4	0.4	13.5	4.3
	June	54 322	21 518	20 317	96 157	27.6	25.7	14.8	24.2
	July	45 701	19 383	15 907	80 991	-15.9	-9.9	-21.7	-15.8
	August	48 423	22 111	17 548	88 082	6.0	14.1	10.3	8.8
	September	47 700	20 778	18 341	86 819	-1.5	-6.0	4.5	-1.4

- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
r revised

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

2010
	July	26 368	23 483	17 212	5 595	9 694	1 546	872	1 402	86 173
	August	26 240	23 182	17 080	5 512	9 706	1 545	867	1 387	85 518
	September	26 136	22 984	16 930	5 435	9 650	1 561	854	1 367	84 918
	October	26 071	22 938	16 808	5 387	9 548	1 581	838	1 351	84 523
	November	26 081	23 033	16 785	5 372	9 444	1 590	822	1 342	84 469
	December	26 107	23 123	16 846	5 354	9 361	1 576	812	1 336	84 515
2011
	January	26 028	22 998	16 910	5 294	9 287	1 534	808	1 324	84 182
	February	25 793	22 602	16 947	5 193	9 197	1 471	807	1 306	83 316
	March	25 509	22 082	16 984	5 089	9 090	1 410	804	1 285	82 254
	April	25 309	21 663	17 044	5 035	9 005	1 374	802	1 269	81 501
	May	25 289	21 505	17 136	5 067	8 968	1 368	803	1 265	81 401
	June	25 471	21 648	17 280	5 184	8 987	1 386	811	1 275	82 042
	July	25 805	22 006	17 503	5 348	9 050	1 415	828	1 295	83 251
	August	26 210	22 444	17 776	5 523	9 142	1 446	850	1 320	84 712
	September	26 587	22 904	18 061	5 695	9 237	1 475	872	1 344	86 174
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	July	25 603	23 035	16 485	5 459	9 945	1 490	902	1 385	84 303
	August	26 153	22 857	16 627	5 439	9 588	1 429	849	1 378	84 319
	September	26 270	22 846	17 387	5 566	9 800	1 659	877	1 393	85 797
	October	26 120	23 128	17 027	5 196	9 298	1 550	817	1 373	84 510
	November	26 206	22 822	17 162	5 391	9 616	1 622	838	1 270	84 927
	December	28 068	23 009	16 635	5 395	9 291	1 647	791	1 333	86 171
2011
	January	26 000	23 294	15 743	5 324	9 242	1 516	954	1 354	83 428
	February	25 643	23 086	17 274	5 340	9 122	1 426	754	1 327	83 973
	March	27 138	23 273	18 574	5 145	9 279	1 442	853	1 315	87 017
	April	25 750	22 249	17 668	5 028	9 182	1 391	821	1 278	83 367
	May	24 344	19 466	16 362	4 646	8 839	1 305	805	1 169	76 936
	June	24 031	20 928	16 120	5 028	8 569	1 287	775	1 225	77 962
	July	26 337	22 763	17 887	5 679	8 998	1 441	805	1 378	85 290
	August	27 432	23 495	18 469	5 555	9 513	1 588	810	1 331	88 192
	September	26 641	22 944	18 333	5 830	9 347	1 439	980	1 357	86 872
Original

2010
	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
	February	25 048	22 446	16 283	5 128	8 686	1 273	680	1 352	80 896
	March	29 750	24 808	20 395	5 360	9 718	1 520	995	1 438	93 984
	April	22 570	19 535	16 403	4 467	8 101	1 124	862	1 152	74 214
	May	24 470	r19 570	16 519	4 782	8 703	1 268	942	1 147	r77 401
	June	29 685	25 091	21 062	6 057	10 424	1 443	985	1 410	96 157
	July	24 893	21 743	17 341	5 255	8 433	1 196	800	1 330	80 991
	August	27 274	23 436	18 298	5 446	9 903	1 581	802	1 342	88 082
	September	26 661	22 845	18 040	5 853	9 731	1 494	881	1 314	86 819

r revised
(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.