APRIL KEY FIGURES

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
	Trend (no.)	33 729	26 845	19 243	5 939	8 676	1 554	910	1 563	98 460
	Seasonally Adjusted (no.)	33 497	26 849	18 843	5 783	8 596	1 576	874	1 586	97 604
Change from previous month
	Trend (%)	0.9	0.3	-0.5	-0.4	-0.3	-0.1	1.3	1.8	0.3
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	-1.5	0.1	-7.7	-4.5	-1.3	0.9	-6.7	-1.8	-2.5
Change from previous year
	Trend (%)	8.8	3.2	-1.0	3.0	-2.4	-3.2	-2.2	6.0	3.5
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	9.8	0.8	-3.7	0.1	-2.7	-1.4	-7.4	10.1	2.4
(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.

APRIL TREND ESTIMATES KEY POINTS

• The April 2016 trend estimate (98 460) increased by 0.3% when compared with March 2016.
• When comparing national trend estimates for April 2016 with March 2016, sales of Passenger vehicles, Sports utility vehicles and Other vehicles increased by 0.1%, 0.1% and 0.8% respectively.
• The largest upward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in the Australian Capital Territory (1.8%).
• The largest downward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in Queensland (-0.5%), continuing a downward trend which commenced in November 2015.

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
	February	43 093	31 918	19 396	94 407	-0.1	1.9	-0.2	0.5
	March	42 974	32 446	19 364	94 784	-0.3	1.7	-0.2	0.4
	April	42 882	32 926	19 304	95 112	-0.2	1.5	-0.3	0.3
	May	42 850	33 415	19 187	95 452	-0.1	1.5	-0.6	0.4
	June	42 821	33 983	19 073	95 878	-0.1	1.7	-0.6	0.4
	July	42 831	34 567	18 989	96 387	-	1.7	-0.4	0.5
	August	42 818	35 121	18 958	96 896	-	1.6	-0.2	0.5
	September	42 643	35 599	19 056	97 298	-0.4	1.4	0.5	0.4
	October	42 290	35 932	19 333	97 555	-0.8	0.9	1.5	0.3
	November	41 856	36 097	19 758	97 712	-1.0	0.5	2.2	0.2
	December	41 508	36 104	20 236	97 849	-0.8	-	2.4	0.1
2016
	January	41 212	36 104	20 674	97 990	-0.7	-	2.2	0.1
	February	40 982	36 119	21 023	98 124	-0.6	-	1.7	0.1
	March	40 812	36 095	21 293	98 200	-0.4	-0.1	1.3	0.1
	April	40 871	36 131	21 458	98 460	0.1	0.1	0.8	0.3
Seasonally Adjusted
2015
	February	43 487	33 047	19 154	95 687	-1.6	10.0	0.2	2.5
	March	45 120	31 668	19 256	96 044	3.8	-4.2	0.5	0.4
	April	41 022	34 871	19 414	95 306	-9.1	10.1	0.8	-0.8
	May	42 137	32 278	19 266	93 681	2.7	-7.4	-0.8	-1.7
	June	44 534	33 487	19 168	97 188	5.7	3.7	-0.5	3.7
	July	42 796	34 370	19 392	96 558	-3.9	2.6	1.2	-0.6
	August	41 604	34 763	18 541	94 908	-2.8	1.1	-4.4	-1.7
	September	44 447	37 619	18 573	100 640	6.8	8.2	0.2	6.0
	October	41 075	36 226	19 250	96 551	-7.6	-3.7	3.6	-4.1
	November	41 606	35 358	20 510	97 474	1.3	-2.4	6.5	1.0
	December	42 966	35 009	19 583	97 558	3.3	-1.0	-4.5	0.1
2016
	January	40 128	36 918	21 031	98 078	-6.6	5.5	7.4	0.5
	February	40 589	36 532	20 854	97 975	1.1	-1.0	-0.8	-0.1
	March	41 766	36 375	21 980	100 121	2.9	-0.4	5.4	2.2
	April	41 256	35 416	20 933	97 604	-1.2	-2.6	-4.8	-2.5
Original
2015
	February	40 775	32 039	17 610	90 424	2.5	15.8	20.3	10.1
	March	48 185	35 503	21 366	105 054	18.2	10.8	21.3	16.2
	April	35 015	29 664	16 977	81 656	-27.3	-16.4	-20.5	-22.3
	May	40 592	32 530	20 205	93 327	15.9	9.7	19.0	14.3
	June	56 386	42 256	27 208	125 850	38.9	29.9	34.7	34.8
	July	41 420	32 679	18 209	92 308	-26.5	-22.7	-33.1	-26.7
	August	40 673	32 900	17 132	90 705	-1.8	0.7	-5.9	-1.7
	September	46 084	36 968	18 340	101 392	13.3	12.4	7.1	11.8
	October	40 856	34 744	18 721	94 321	-11.3	-6.0	2.1	-7.0
	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
- 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
	February	30 533	25 933	19 141	5 801	9 010	1 583	939	1 467	94 407
	March	30 724	25 967	19 329	5 806	8 944	1 602	938	1 472	94 784
	April	31 006	26 002	19 443	5 765	8 886	1 606	930	1 474	95 112
	May	31 372	26 079	19 485	5 692	8 830	1 601	913	1 481	95 452
	June	31 769	26 188	19 535	5 617	8 784	1 596	890	1 498	95 878
	July	32 136	26 318	19 613	5 576	8 762	1 596	866	1 521	96 387
	August	32 387	26 455	19 704	5 599	8 763	1 604	842	1 542	96 896
	September	32 505	26 586	19 778	5 672	8 777	1 610	824	1 547	97 298
	October	32 544	26 680	19 815	5 773	8 786	1 608	817	1 533	97 555
	November	32 595	26 715	19 805	5 877	8 783	1 599	825	1 512	97 712
	December	32 735	26 718	19 743	5 952	8 774	1 588	841	1 499	97 849
2016
	January	32 944	26 736	19 632	5 985	8 757	1 576	861	1 500	97 990
	February	33 198	26 756	19 494	5 985	8 730	1 565	881	1 515	98 124
	March	33 439	26 764	19 344	5 965	8 698	1 556	898	1 535	98 200
	April	33 729	26 845	19 243	5 939	8 676	1 554	910	1 563	98 460
Seasonally Adjusted
2015
	February	30 648	25 740	19 739	6 179	9 177	1 670	1 006	1 529	95 687
	March	30 839	26 082	20 295	5 735	9 103	1 587	899	1 504	96 044
	April	30 509	26 638	19 563	5 780	8 835	1 598	944	1 440	95 306
	May	31 243	25 337	19 002	5 624	8 581	1 523	945	1 425	93 681
	June	32 425	26 086	20 039	5 672	8 918	1 650	884	1 513	97 188
	July	31 889	26 774	19 489	5 659	8 758	1 613	852	1 524	96 558
	August	31 844	25 787	19 228	5 277	8 724	1 710	831	1 508	94 908
	September	33 702	27 548	20 366	5 742	8 902	1 931	814	1 634	100 640
	October	32 313	26 195	19 454	5 880	8 683	1 617	855	1 555	96 551
	November	32 198	26 586	20 250	5 820	8 768	1 546	801	1 505	97 474
	December	32 529	26 999	19 297	6 014	8 789	1 664	823	1 443	97 558
2016
	January	32 748	26 642	19 920	6 083	8 842	1 558	823	1 462	98 078
	February	33 355	26 671	19 393	5 917	8 700	1 519	934	1 487	97 975
	March	34 017	26 814	20 411	6 055	8 711	1 562	937	1 615	100 121
	April	33 497	26 849	18 843	5 783	8 596	1 576	874	1 586	97 604
Original
2015
	February	28 975	24 742	18 212	5 915	8 851	1 409	877	1 443	90 424
	March	33 773	28 536	22 499	6 173	9 823	1 560	1 064	1 626	105 054
	April	26 264	22 160	17 335	4 843	7 609	1 280	948	1 217	81 656
	May	30 996	25 231	19 312	5 429	8 353	1 440	1 144	1 422	93 327
	June	42 105	32 615	27 270	7 286	11 503	1 989	1 189	1 893	125 850
	July	30 332	25 902	18 700	5 256	8 341	1 445	836	1 496	92 308
	August	30 529	24 608	18 183	5 088	8 371	1 710	767	1 449	90 705
	September	33 983	27 675	20 387	5 859	9 009	2 090	785	1 604	101 392
	October	31 196	26 503	18 246	5 825	8 534	1 719	785	1 513	94 321
	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
(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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