JANUARY KEY FIGURES

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
	Trend (no.)	33 035	27 676	18 677	5 959	7 771	1 673	842	1 597	97 231
	Seasonally Adjusted (no.)	33 056	28 490	18 379	5 891	7 799	1 615	859	1 547	97 636
Change from previous month
	Trend (%)	-	0.1	-0.3	-0.1	-1.1	-1.8	-0.5	1.0	-0.2
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	-1.2	7.8	-2.9	-2.5	-2.2	-3.3	2.5	-7.6	0.6
Change from previous year
	Trend (%)	0.5	3.7	-5.2	-0.6	-11.7	5.7	-3.0	6.1	-0.8
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	0.7	7.3	-9.0	-4.1	-12.4	2.3	2.6	4.6	-0.9
- 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.

JANUARY TREND ESTIMATES KEY POINTS

• The January 2017 trend estimate (97,231) decreased by 0.2% when compared with December 2016.
• When comparing national trend estimates for January 2017 with December 2016, sales for Sports utility and Other vehicles decreased by 0.7% and and 0.4% respectively. By contrast, sales for Passenger vehicles increased by 0.4%.
• The largest downward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in Tasmania (-1.8%).
• The largest upward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in the Australian Capital Territory (1.0%), continuing an upward trend which commenced in September 2016.

SUMMARY COMMENTARY

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month
		Count Passenger vehicles	Count Sports utility vehicles	Count Other vehicles	Count Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2015
	November	41 894	36 086	19 720	97 701	-1.1	0.8	2.2	0.3
	December	41 473	36 221	20 220	97 915	-1.0	0.4	2.5	0.2
2016
	January	41 115	36 248	20 663	98 026	-0.9	0.1	2.2	0.1
	February	40 878	36 177	20 955	98 009	-0.6	-0.2	1.4	-
	March	40 785	36 061	21 068	97 914	-0.2	-0.3	0.5	-0.1
	April	40 779	36 003	21 070	97 852	-	-0.2	-	-0.1
	May	40 745	36 106	21 000	97 851	-0.1	0.3	-0.3	-
	June	40 629	36 475	20 883	97 986	-0.3	1.0	-0.6	0.1
	July	40 382	36 981	20 797	98 161	-0.6	1.4	-0.4	0.2
	August	40 071	37 420	20 788	98 278	-0.8	1.2	-	0.1
	September	39 826	37 604	20 794	98 224	-0.6	0.5	-	-0.1
	October	39 692	37 524	20 766	97 982	-0.3	-0.2	-0.1	-0.2
	November	39 661	37 310	20 707	97 678	-0.1	-0.6	-0.3	-0.3
	December	39 675	37 072	20 641	97 388	-	-0.6	-0.3	-0.3
2017
	January	39 837	36 831	20 563	97 231	0.4	-0.7	-0.4	-0.2
Seasonally Adjusted
2015
	November	41 992	35 595	20 403	97 990	1.8	-0.8	4.4	1.3
	December	42 341	35 436	19 140	96 916	0.8	-0.4	-6.2	-1.1
2016
	January	40 357	37 000	21 148	98 505	-4.7	4.4	10.5	1.6
	February	40 676	36 570	20 908	98 154	0.8	-1.2	-1.1	-0.4
	March	41 574	36 404	21 975	99 953	2.2	-0.5	5.1	1.8
	April	40 984	35 322	20 743	97 049	-1.4	-3.0	-5.6	-2.9
	May	39 969	35 821	20 536	96 325	-2.5	1.4	-1.0	-0.7
	June	42 399	36 142	20 704	99 245	6.1	0.9	0.8	3.0
	July	40 109	36 767	21 128	98 004	-5.4	1.7	2.0	-1.3
	August	39 395	37 644	20 778	97 817	-1.8	2.4	-1.7	-0.2
	September	40 193	38 665	21 040	99 898	2.0	2.7	1.3	2.1
	October	39 374	38 196	20 117	97 687	-2.0	-1.2	-4.4	-2.2
	November	39 070	36 837	21 020	96 927	-0.8	-3.6	4.5	-0.8
	December	40 529	35 422	21 062	97 012	3.7	-3.8	0.2	0.1
2017
	January	39 822	37 667	20 146	97 636	-1.7	6.3	-4.3	0.6
Original
2015
	November	41 726	36 070	20 843	98 639	2.1	3.8	11.3	4.6
	December	44 172	35 439	20 005	99 616	5.9	-1.7	-4.0	1.0
2016
	January	35 214	33 073	16 086	84 373	-20.3	-6.7	-19.6	-15.3
	February	39 558	36 865	20 020	96 443	12.3	11.5	24.5	14.3
	March	43 652	38 437	22 423	104 512	10.3	4.3	12.0	8.4
	April	36 671	31 783	19 117	87 571	-16.0	-17.3	-14.7	-16.2
	May	38 222	36 230	22 220	96 672	4.2	14.0	16.2	10.4
	June	53 832	46 011	28 726	128 569	40.8	27.0	29.3	33.0
	July	38 033	33 817	19 481	91 331	-29.3	-26.5	-32.2	-29.0
	August	38 945	36 396	19 568	94 909	2.4	7.6	0.4	3.9
	September	42 076	39 497	21 123	102 696	8.0	8.5	7.9	8.2
	October	37 817	36 442	19 098	93 357	-10.1	-7.7	-9.6	-9.1
	November	39 852	37 536	21 549	98 937	5.4	3.0	12.8	6.0
	December	42 385	34 936	21 442	98 763	6.4	-6.9	-0.5	-0.2
2017
	January	34 920	34 127	15 863	84 910	-17.6	-2.3	-26.0	-14.0
- 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.
Trend
2015
	November	32 547	26 674	19 829	5 881	8 836	1 594	831	1 509	97 701
	December	32 684	26 694	19 798	5 956	8 848	1 589	847	1 499	97 915
2016
	January	32 879	26 692	19 702	5 995	8 802	1 583	868	1 505	98 026
	February	33 066	26 679	19 580	5 995	8 704	1 570	891	1 525	98 009
	March	33 187	26 680	19 482	5 965	8 590	1 554	909	1 547	97 914
	April	33 203	26 752	19 431	5 942	8 491	1 549	921	1 562	97 852
	May	33 144	26 896	19 399	5 931	8 431	1 563	925	1 562	97 851
	June	33 074	27 152	19 362	5 931	8 400	1 602	920	1 546	97 986
	July	33 033	27 412	19 307	5 948	8 370	1 655	909	1 527	98 161
	August	33 051	27 598	19 231	5 968	8 316	1 702	895	1 519	98 278
	September	33 090	27 688	19 108	5 978	8 222	1 732	880	1 526	98 224
	October	33 094	27 697	18 968	5 976	8 097	1 741	866	1 544	97 982
	November	33 070	27 675	18 847	5 971	7 970	1 728	854	1 563	97 678
	December	33 045	27 650	18 737	5 965	7 860	1 704	846	1 581	97 388
2017
	January	33 035	27 676	18 677	5 959	7 771	1 673	842	1 597	97 231
Seasonally Adjusted
2015
	November	32 539	26 582	20 263	5 831	8 894	1 562	803	1 516	97 990
	December	32 012	27 010	19 199	5 912	8 823	1 690	833	1 437	96 916
2016
	January	32 811	26 558	20 197	6 143	8 903	1 578	837	1 479	98 505
	February	33 300	26 687	19 572	5 952	8 722	1 493	935	1 493	98 154
	March	33 987	26 743	20 365	6 042	8 702	1 568	932	1 613	99 953
	April	33 043	26 867	18 867	5 753	8 448	1 587	893	1 591	97 049
	May	32 769	26 214	19 197	6 018	8 054	1 582	934	1 557	96 325
	June	33 014	27 618	20 054	5 955	8 388	1 541	936	1 739	99 245
	July	32 895	27 183	19 450	5 806	8 713	1 567	872	1 518	98 004
	August	32 906	27 665	18 853	6 012	8 289	1 718	916	1 459	97 817
	September	33 695	28 060	19 206	6 241	8 336	1 875	918	1 566	99 898
	October	33 351	27 876	18 678	5 696	7 998	1 775	816	1 496	97 687
	November	32 118	27 775	19 129	6 026	7 771	1 690	857	1 561	96 927
	December	33 457	26 427	18 931	6 043	7 972	1 670	838	1 674	97 012
2017
	January	33 056	28 490	18 379	5 891	7 799	1 615	859	1 547	97 636
Original
2015
	November	33 176	27 421	19 249	6 019	8 724	1 764	734	1 552	98 639
	December	32 740	27 785	19 711	6 315	8 969	1 913	733	1 450	99 616
2016
	January	28 392	22 426	17 193	5 208	7 861	1 298	626	1 369	84 373
	February	32 633	26 782	18 711	5 988	8 725	1 319	851	1 434	96 443
	March	35 963	27 716	21 470	6 087	9 054	1 515	1 023	1 684	104 512
	April	29 391	23 963	17 753	5 174	7 601	1 313	969	1 407	87 571
	May	32 867	26 125	19 565	5 949	7 935	1 503	1 180	1 548	96 672
	June	43 449	34 262	27 270	7 613	10 749	1 853	1 240	2 133	128 569
	July	30 219	25 517	18 445	5 210	8 234	1 389	831	1 486	91 331
	August	31 788	27 096	18 062	5 785	8 144	1 743	881	1 410	94 909
	September	34 424	28 766	19 702	6 551	8 668	2 074	880	1 631	102 696
	October	31 850	27 546	16 870	5 450	7 580	1 937	713	1 411	93 357
	November	32 955	28 991	18 733	6 259	7 657	1 903	808	1 631	98 937
	December	33 632	27 065	19 252	6 464	8 026	1 918	734	1 672	98 763
2017
	January	29 068	24 535	15 709	5 134	7 037	1 337	652	1 438	84 910
(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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