SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
	Trend (no.)	33 570	28 291	19 505	6 058	8 280	1 663	936	1 546	99 850
	Seasonally Adjusted (no.)	33 813	27 813	18 830	5 937	8 318	1 800	871	1 499	98 882
Change from previous month
	Trend (%)	-	-0.4	-0.8	-0.7	0.8	1.5	-0.8	-0.9	-0.3
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	1.8	-1.4	-3.8	-1.6	-0.5	17.4	-8.2	-2.9	-0.5
Change from previous year
	Trend (%)	1.5	2.0	2.2	1.1	1.1	-4.0	6.4	1.0	1.7
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	1.0	-1.1	-1.8	-4.9	0.3	-1.2	-7.2	-4.7	-0.8
- 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.

SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS


SEPTEMBER TREND ESTIMATES KEY POINTS

• The September 2017 trend estimate (99,850) decreased by 0.3% when compared with August 2017.
• When comparing national trend estimates for September 2017 with August 2017, sales for Other vehicles increased by 0.7%. By contrast, Passenger vehicles and Sports utility vehicles decreased by 1.0% and 0.1% respectively.
• The largest upward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in Tasmania (1.5%), continuing an upward trend that began in April 2017.
• The largest downward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in the Australian Capital Territory (-0.9%).

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

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October 2017	15 November 2017
November 2017	18 December 2017
December 2017	16 January 2018

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for September 2017.


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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
2016
	July	40 289	36 818	20 735	97 842	-0.5	1.2	-0.3	0.2
	August	40 105	37 229	20 760	98 094	-0.5	1.1	0.1	0.3
	September	39 993	37 444	20 772	98 210	-0.3	0.6	0.1	0.1
	October	39 842	37 445	20 738	98 024	-0.4	-	-0.2	-0.2
	November	39 552	37 276	20 710	97 539	-0.7	-0.5	-0.1	-0.5
	December	39 155	37 044	20 793	96 992	-1.0	-0.6	0.4	-0.6
2017
	January	38 766	36 933	21 040	96 738	-1.0	-0.3	1.2	-0.3
	February	38 457	37 103	21 393	96 953	-0.8	0.5	1.7	0.2
	March	38 307	37 565	21 784	97 656	-0.4	1.2	1.8	0.7
	April	38 256	38 154	22 180	98 590	-0.1	1.6	1.8	1.0
	May	38 206	38 662	22 537	99 405	-0.1	1.3	1.6	0.8
	June	38 087	39 013	22 841	99 941	-0.3	0.9	1.3	0.5
	July	37 810	39 237	23 092	100 140	-0.7	0.6	1.1	0.2
	August	37 447	39 346	23 324	100 117	-1.0	0.3	1.0	-
	September	37 063	39 305	23 483	99 850	-1.0	-0.1	0.7	-0.3
Seasonally Adjusted
2016
	July	40 009	36 560	21 310	97 879	-4.7	1.8	3.3	-0.6
	August	39 815	37 455	20 552	97 822	-0.5	2.4	-3.6	-0.1
	September	40 319	38 373	20 961	99 653	1.3	2.5	2.0	1.9
	October	39 429	38 149	20 277	97 855	-2.2	-0.6	-3.3	-1.8
	November	38 996	36 761	21 036	96 793	-1.1	-3.6	3.7	-1.1
	December	40 536	35 612	21 227	97 375	3.9	-3.1	0.9	0.6
2017
	January	39 272	37 987	20 505	97 763	-3.1	6.7	-3.4	0.4
	February	37 675	36 828	20 728	95 231	-4.1	-3.1	1.1	-2.6
	March	36 956	37 890	22 023	96 869	-1.9	2.9	6.2	1.7
	April	38 104	37 125	22 907	98 136	3.1	-2.0	4.0	1.3
	May	39 467	38 544	22 673	100 684	3.6	3.8	-1.0	2.6
	June	38 809	40 406	22 707	101 922	-1.7	4.8	0.1	1.2
	July	37 741	39 564	22 255	99 560	-2.8	-2.1	-2.0	-2.3
	August	36 536	38 979	23 902	99 417	-3.2	-1.5	7.4	-0.1
	September	36 667	38 527	23 688	98 882	0.4	-1.2	-0.9	-0.5
Original
2016
	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
	February	34 740	35 497	18 788	89 025	-0.5	4.0	18.4	4.8
	March	38 972	41 484	24 954	105 410	12.2	16.9	32.8	18.4
	April	32 147	31 368	19 620	83 135	-17.5	-24.4	-21.4	-21.1
	May	38 842	39 629	24 430	102 901	20.8	26.3	24.5	23.8
	June	50 646	51 393	32 132	134 171	30.4	29.7	31.5	30.4
	July	35 792	36 979	19 983	92 754	-29.3	-28.0	-37.8	-30.9
	August	35 733	38 118	22 811	96 662	-0.2	3.1	14.2	4.2
	September	38 147	39 003	23 050	100 200	6.8	2.3	1.0	3.7
- 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
2016
	July	32 954	27 296	19 221	5 930	8 348	1 662	905	1 527	97 842
	August	32 994	27 555	19 175	5 967	8 285	1 705	892	1 520	98 094
	September	33 068	27 730	19 092	5 990	8 187	1 733	880	1 530	98 210
	October	33 068	27 752	18 998	5 987	8 069	1 735	867	1 549	98 024
	November	32 969	27 631	18 904	5 956	7 952	1 707	855	1 565	97 539
	December	32 856	27 439	18 832	5 915	7 874	1 659	847	1 568	96 992
2017
	January	32 818	27 326	18 830	5 885	7 857	1 612	848	1 563	96 738
	February	32 889	27 371	18 931	5 895	7 871	1 582	860	1 556	96 953
	March	33 043	27 602	19 156	5 950	7 898	1 568	885	1 554	97 656
	April	33 227	27 922	19 437	6 019	7 946	1 569	911	1 559	98 590
	May	33 375	28 200	19 671	6 079	8 003	1 579	933	1 567	99 405
	June	33 489	28 363	19 787	6 116	8 073	1 594	946	1 573	99 941
	July	33 549	28 423	19 769	6 119	8 147	1 614	949	1 570	100 140
	August	33 579	28 415	19 661	6 102	8 218	1 638	944	1 560	100 117
	September	33 570	28 291	19 505	6 058	8 280	1 663	936	1 546	99 850
Seasonally Adjusted
2016
	July	32 917	27 110	19 373	5 757	8 737	1 596	868	1 522	97 879
	August	32 971	27 606	18 914	6 076	8 153	1 727	909	1 465	97 822
	September	33 490	28 116	19 171	6 245	8 297	1 822	939	1 573	99 653
	October	33 303	27 960	18 762	5 720	8 011	1 777	813	1 510	97 855
	November	32 060	27 738	19 149	6 025	7 734	1 680	851	1 557	96 793
	December	33 684	26 340	19 083	6 033	8 063	1 650	849	1 672	97 375
2017
	January	32 841	28 751	18 503	5 881	7 797	1 591	856	1 542	97 763
	February	32 330	26 554	18 898	5 664	7 826	1 556	882	1 521	95 231
	March	32 685	27 163	19 134	6 010	7 951	1 565	828	1 533	96 869
	April	33 620	27 788	18 870	5 979	7 871	1 565	905	1 538	98 136
	May	33 696	28 530	19 975	6 154	8 211	1 614	941	1 564	100 684
	June	33 694	29 249	20 640	6 200	7 874	1 609	1 012	1 643	101 922
	July	33 285	28 192	19 704	6 193	8 083	1 582	944	1 578	99 560
	August	33 209	28 221	19 570	6 033	8 358	1 533	949	1 543	99 417
	September	33 813	27 813	18 830	5 937	8 318	1 800	871	1 499	98 882
Original
2016
	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
	February	30 221	24 917	17 474	5 354	7 526	1 334	760	1 439	89 025
	March	35 677	29 252	21 217	6 387	8 712	1 536	946	1 683	105 410
	April	28 565	23 292	16 312	4 951	6 634	1 214	910	1 257	83 135
	May	34 545	29 077	20 674	6 133	8 154	1 540	1 276	1 502	102 901
	June	44 341	37 255	28 768	8 213	10 161	1 953	1 333	2 147	134 171
	July	30 620	26 584	18 540	5 663	7 576	1 376	914	1 481	92 754
	August	32 137	27 569	18 695	5 790	8 487	1 538	904	1 542	96 662
	September	34 168	28 096	19 175	6 029	8 401	2 016	821	1 494	100 200
(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.