JANUARY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	32 581	26 749	19 855	6 076	8 824	1 612	813	1 463	97 973
Seasonally Adjusted	32 560	26 642	20 005	6 115	8 874	1 587	817	1 455	98 055
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	0.1	-	0.2	1.5	0.2	0.2	-	-1.6	0.2
Seasonally Adjusted	-0.3	-1.2	4.1	1.3	0.8	-4.9	-0.1	1.7	0.5
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	7.2	3.5	5.0	5.3	-2.7	3.9	-13.1	1.0	4.3
Seasonally Adjusted	8.2	3.9	5.5	7.7	-1.1	-2.8	-3.5	0.6	5.1
- 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 2016 trend estimate (97 973) has increased by 0.2% when compared with December 2015.
• When comparing national trend estimates for January 2016 with December 2015, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.6% and Sports utility and Other vehicles increased by 0.2% and 1.6% respectively.
• The largest upward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in South Australia (1.5%) which has been trending upwards since August 2015.
• The only jurisdiction to record a downward movement in trend data was the Australian Capital Territory (1.6%), continuing a downward trend which commenced in October 2015.

SUMMARY COMMENTARY

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
2014
	November	43 196	30 468	19 383	93 047	-0.2	1.0	0.2	0.3
	December	43 130	30 911	19 424	93 465	-0.2	1.5	0.2	0.4
2015
	January	43 071	31 430	19 429	93 931	-0.1	1.7	-	0.5
	February	43 037	31 961	19 410	94 409	-0.1	1.7	-0.1	0.5
	March	42 960	32 417	19 396	94 773	-0.2	1.4	-0.1	0.4
	April	42 911	32 834	19 345	95 089	-0.1	1.3	-0.3	0.3
	May	42 911	33 286	19 218	95 416	-	1.4	-0.7	0.3
	June	42 896	33 854	19 083	95 832	-	1.7	-0.7	0.4
	July	42 895	34 471	18 978	96 344	-	1.8	-0.6	0.5
	August	42 840	35 072	18 953	96 865	-0.1	1.7	-0.1	0.5
	September	42 625	35 582	19 090	97 297	-0.5	1.5	0.7	0.4
	October	42 267	35 936	19 360	97 563	-0.8	1.0	1.4	0.3
	November	41 891	36 143	19 697	97 731	-0.9	0.6	1.7	0.2
	December	41 518	36 267	20 039	97 824	-0.9	0.3	1.7	0.1
2016
	January	41 274	36 341	20 358	97 973	-0.6	0.2	1.6	0.2
Seasonally Adjusted
2014
	November	43 026	30 642	18 648	92 317	-1.5	2.5	-3.1	-0.6
	December	43 649	31 049	20 598	95 296	1.4	1.3	10.5	3.2
2015
	January	44 129	30 107	19 034	93 270	1.1	-3.0	-7.6	-2.1
	February	43 250	33 252	19 127	95 630	-2.0	10.4	0.5	2.5
	March	45 132	31 764	19 485	96 382	4.4	-4.5	1.9	0.8
	April	41 183	34 421	19 421	95 025	-8.8	8.4	-0.3	-1.4
	May	42 260	32 160	19 225	93 646	2.6	-6.6	-1.0	-1.5
	June	44 567	33 388	19 216	97 172	5.5	3.8	-	3.8
	July	42 793	34 356	19 347	96 497	-4.0	2.9	0.7	-0.7
	August	41 615	34 777	18 556	94 949	-2.8	1.2	-4.1	-1.6
	September	44 557	37 535	18 480	100 572	7.1	7.9	-0.4	5.9
	October	41 075	36 220	19 203	96 498	-7.8	-3.5	3.9	-4.1
	November	41 526	35 559	20 609	97 693	1.1	-1.8	7.3	1.2
	December	42 924	35 165	19 491	97 580	3.4	-1.1	-5.4	-0.1
2016
	January	40 086	37 116	20 853	98 055	-6.6	5.5	7.0	0.5
Original
2014
	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
2015
	January	39 799	27 679	14 638	82 116	-11.7	-9.7	-30.6	-15.2
	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
- 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
2014
	November	30 238	25 586	18 413	5 750	9 252	1 469	913	1 425	93 047
	December	30 317	25 736	18 641	5 750	9 152	1 512	923	1 434	93 465
2015
	January	30 398	25 854	18 901	5 770	9 071	1 551	936	1 449	93 931
	February	30 542	25 932	19 150	5 793	9 001	1 581	944	1 465	94 409
	March	30 740	25 959	19 328	5 795	8 933	1 598	946	1 474	94 773
	April	31 023	25 988	19 430	5 753	8 876	1 602	937	1 480	95 089
	May	31 384	26 060	19 462	5 683	8 822	1 598	918	1 488	95 416
	June	31 768	26 172	19 509	5 613	8 780	1 594	892	1 504	95 832
	July	32 122	26 308	19 593	5 575	8 761	1 595	864	1 525	96 344
	August	32 371	26 450	19 691	5 602	8 765	1 602	840	1 543	96 865
	September	32 507	26 583	19 767	5 679	8 779	1 607	827	1 548	97 297
	October	32 548	26 679	19 807	5 779	8 787	1 609	819	1 535	97 563
	November	32 560	26 727	19 826	5 886	8 794	1 610	815	1 513	97 731
	December	32 556	26 746	19 825	5 986	8 802	1 609	813	1 487	97 824
2016
	January	32 581	26 749	19 855	6 076	8 824	1 612	813	1 463	97 973
Seasonally Adjusted
2014
	November	29 864	25 784	17 960	5 797	9 133	1 446	907	1 425	92 317
	December	30 607	26 001	20 330	5 529	9 047	1 418	970	1 395	95 296
2015
	January	30 092	25 650	18 954	5 676	8 972	1 632	847	1 447	93 270
	February	30 704	25 738	19 723	6 133	9 177	1 654	1 006	1 495	95 630
	March	30 982	26 129	20 400	5 747	9 078	1 575	930	1 541	96 382
	April	30 443	26 554	19 461	5 757	8 817	1 595	952	1 446	95 025
	May	31 234	25 324	18 965	5 625	8 596	1 530	940	1 433	93 646
	June	32 427	26 095	20 018	5 668	8 914	1 647	887	1 516	97 172
	July	31 910	26 742	19 460	5 651	8 751	1 610	848	1 526	96 497
	August	31 820	25 792	19 300	5 276	8 720	1 704	829	1 507	94 949
	September	33 673	27 546	20 283	5 770	8 917	1 939	808	1 636	100 572
	October	32 222	26 224	19 477	5 868	8 682	1 620	849	1 557	96 498
	November	32 203	26 620	20 406	5 832	8 785	1 547	798	1 502	97 693
	December	32 652	26 957	19 216	6 038	8 800	1 668	818	1 431	97 580
2016
	January	32 560	26 642	20 005	6 115	8 874	1 587	817	1 455	98 055
Original
2014
	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
2015
	January	26 796	22 211	16 570	5 039	8 101	1 364	662	1 373	82 116
	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
(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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