9314.0 - Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, Jul 2014

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JULY KEY FIGURES

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

Trend	29 598	25 762	18 496	5 882	10 083	1 434	947	1 451	93 654
Seasonally Adjusted	29 546	25 817	18 385	5 841	9 988	1 480	924	1 497	93 479
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	0.4	1.2	-0.3	0.3	0.7	-1.1	0.4	0.9	0.5
Seasonally Adjusted	-1.3	-0.3	-1.7	-3.5	-1.8	-1.9	-6.2	1.6	-1.3
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	0.7	0.7	-4.3	1.8	-2.3	-11.6	-2.3	-0.5	-0.8
Seasonally Adjusted	1.7	1.7	-4.1	1.5	-3.7	-12.1	-9.6	5.9	-0.4

(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.

JULY KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

Trend estimates: The July 2014 trend estimate (93 654) has increased by 0.5% when compared with June 2014.
Seasonally adjusted estimates: The July 2014 seasonally adjusted estimate (93 479) has decreased by 1.3% when compared with June 2014.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

Trend estimates: When comparing national trend estimates for July 2014 with June 2014, sales of Sports utility and Other vehicles increased by 1.3% and 0.7% respectively. Over the same period, Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.1%.
Seasonally adjusted estimates: When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for June 2014 with July 2014, sales of Other vehicles decreased by 9.3% while Passenger vehicles decreased by 9 units. Over the same period, sales of Sports utility vehicles increased by 2.3%.

SALES BY STATE

Trend estimates: Six of the eight states and territories experienced an increase in new motor vehicle sales when comparing July 2014 with June 2014. Victoria recorded the largest percentage increase (1.2%), followed by the Australian Capital Territory (0.9%) and Western Australia (0.7%). Over the same period, Tasmania recorded a decrease of 1.1%.
Seasonally adjusted estimates: Seven of the eight states and territories experienced a decrease in new motor vehicle sales when comparing July 2014 with June 2014. The Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage decrease (6.2%) followed by South Australia (3.5%) and Tasmania (1.9%). The Australian Capital Territory was the only jurisdiction to record an increase (1.6%).

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for July 2014.

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SUMMARY COMMENTARY

Graph Image for New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - long term

Footnote(s): Break in time series for trend between June and July 2000. See paragraph 13 of the Expanatory Notes.

Source(s): New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - long term-graph_update_July_2014

Graph Image for New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - short_term

Source(s): New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - short_term-graph_update_July_2014

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

2013
	May	47 542	27 670	19 641	94 853	0.4	-	-1.5	-0.1
	June	47 675	27 606	19 359	94 640	0.3	-0.2	-1.4	-0.2
	July	47 662	27 601	19 182	94 445	-	-	-0.9	-0.2
	August	47 526	27 664	19 132	94 322	-0.3	0.2	-0.3	-0.1
	September	47 409	27 732	19 154	94 294	-0.2	0.2	0.1	-
	October	47 280	27 791	19 199	94 270	-0.3	0.2	0.2	-
	November	47 072	27 850	19 252	94 174	-0.4	0.2	0.3	-0.1
	December	46 754	27 922	19 235	93 911	-0.7	0.3	-0.1	-0.3
2014
	January	46 309	28 028	19 148	93 486	-1.0	0.4	-0.5	-0.5
	February	45 796	28 205	19 011	93 012	-1.1	0.6	-0.7	-0.5
	March	45 325	28 471	18 918	92 714	-1.0	0.9	-0.5	-0.3
	April	44 956	28 805	18 926	92 687	-0.8	1.2	-	-
	May	44 706	29 190	19 007	92 903	-0.6	1.3	0.4	0.2
	June	44 545	29 558	19 094	93 197	-0.4	1.3	0.5	0.3
	July	44 487	29 931	19 235	93 654	-0.1	1.3	0.7	0.5
Seasonally Adjusted

2013
	May	47 541	27 465	19 329	94 334	0.1	-0.4	1.4	0.3
	June	48 352	27 945	20 373	96 670	1.7	1.7	5.4	2.5
	July	47 014	27 301	19 549	93 864	-2.8	-2.3	-4.0	-2.9
	August	47 843	28 080	18 356	94 279	1.8	2.9	-6.1	0.4
	September	47 061	27 697	18 982	93 740	-1.6	-1.4	3.4	-0.6
	October	47 139	26 991	18 924	93 053	0.2	-2.6	-0.3	-0.7
	November	47 400	28 354	19 348	95 102	0.6	5.1	2.2	2.2
	December	47 107	28 835	20 372	96 315	-0.6	1.7	5.3	1.3
2014
	January	45 963	27 537	18 881	92 380	-2.4	-4.5	-7.3	-4.1
	February	46 274	27 399	18 758	92 430	0.7	-0.5	-0.6	0.1
	March	44 728	28 849	18 639	92 216	-3.3	5.3	-0.6	-0.2
	April	45 139	28 761	18 417	92 316	0.9	-0.3	-1.2	0.1
	May	44 122	29 368	19 125	92 614	-2.3	2.1	3.8	0.3
	June	44 812	29 520	20 361	94 693	1.6	0.5	6.5	2.2
	July	44 803	30 214	18 462	93 479	-	2.3	-9.3	-1.3
Original

2013
	May	46 774	29 152	20 862	96 788	9.2	19.6	16.6	13.7
	June	57 636	34 398	26 724	118 758	23.2	18.0	28.1	22.7
	July	46 318	25 568	18 349	90 235	-19.6	-25.7	-31.3	-24.0
	August	48 060	27 515	17 761	93 336	3.8	7.6	-3.2	3.4
	September	47 149	26 199	19 314	92 662	-1.9	-4.8	8.7	-0.7
	October	46 939	26 258	19 406	92 603	-0.4	0.2	0.5	-0.1
	November	49 089	28 889	18 946	96 924	4.6	10.0	-2.4	4.7
	December	47 686	28 543	20 527	96 756	-2.9	-1.2	8.3	-0.2
2014
	January	41 626	25 868	14 791	82 285	-12.7	-9.4	-27.9	-15.0
	February	43 651	25 867	17 300	86 818	4.9	-	17.0	5.5
	March	47 079	30 778	19 410	97 267	7.9	19.0	12.2	12.0
	April	39 027	25 350	16 333	80 710	-17.1	-17.6	-15.9	-17.0
	May	43 819	30 730	20 013	94 562	12.3	21.2	22.5	17.2
	June	53 844	36 846	27 619	118 309	22.9	19.9	38.0	25.1
	July	43 464	28 805	17 598	89 867	-19.3	-21.8	-36.3	-24.0

- 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.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend

2013
	May	29 291	25 501	19 537	5 791	10 634	1 643	965	1 491	94 853
	June	29 370	25 503	19 443	5 775	10 468	1 638	969	1 473	94 640
	July	29 397	25 573	19 320	5 780	10 324	1 623	969	1 458	94 445
	August	29 399	25 690	19 205	5 793	10 205	1 613	963	1 452	94 322
	September	29 443	25 777	19 138	5 809	10 102	1 611	953	1 461	94 294
	October	29 512	25 799	19 101	5 826	10 006	1 612	934	1 480	94 270
	November	29 578	25 712	19 092	5 842	9 924	1 609	918	1 500	94 174
	December	29 606	25 474	19 109	5 839	9 867	1 598	908	1 509	93 911
2014
	January	29 572	25 163	19 102	5 830	9 838	1 575	907	1 499	93 486
	February	29 482	24 909	19 028	5 823	9 839	1 541	914	1 475	93 012
	March	29 398	24 835	18 905	5 824	9 870	1 510	923	1 449	92 714
	April	29 361	24 955	18 761	5 834	9 922	1 488	931	1 433	92 687
	May	29 404	25 193	18 643	5 849	9 975	1 469	939	1 432	92 903
	June	29 478	25 460	18 543	5 867	10 017	1 450	943	1 438	93 197
	July	29 598	25 762	18 496	5 882	10 083	1 434	947	1 451	93 654
Seasonally Adjusted

2013
	May	29 043	25 536	19 340	5 731	10 511	1 671	994	1 509	94 334
	June	30 177	25 860	20 052	5 742	10 662	1 739	923	1 515	96 670
	July	29 051	25 391	19 173	5 755	10 375	1 683	1 022	1 414	93 864
	August	29 722	25 395	19 425	5 799	10 061	1 395	1 001	1 481	94 279
	September	29 203	25 598	19 024	5 815	10 079	1 717	902	1 401	93 740
	October	28 866	25 566	18 678	5 778	10 122	1 662	931	1 451	93 053
	November	29 667	26 677	18 873	6 014	9 748	1 660	931	1 531	95 102
	December	30 396	26 054	19 738	5 783	10 232	1 630	922	1 558	96 315
2014
	January	29 725	24 351	19 181	5 691	9 475	1 549	881	1 527	92 380
	February	29 184	24 532	19 006	5 899	9 918	1 508	909	1 474	92 430
	March	29 039	25 021	18 585	5 927	9 875	1 473	877	1 419	92 216
	April	29 328	24 458	18 911	5 757	9 898	1 520	1 052	1 393	92 316
	May	29 324	25 336	18 570	5 701	9 958	1 472	849	1 403	92 614
	June	29 925	25 889	18 695	6 051	10 168	1 508	985	1 473	94 693
	July	29 546	25 817	18 385	5 841	9 988	1 480	924	1 497	93 479
Original

2013
	May	29 707	26 226	20 221	5 761	10 610	1 597	1 132	1 534	96 788
	June	37 194	30 647	26 245	6 999	12 782	1 917	1 162	1 812	118 758
	July	27 789	24 584	18 618	5 485	9 848	1 466	1 049	1 396	90 235
	August	29 223	25 210	19 101	5 730	10 177	1 491	967	1 437	93 336
	September	28 702	25 430	18 498	5 847	10 153	1 835	852	1 345	92 662
	October	28 519	25 961	18 057	5 732	10 305	1 737	853	1 439	92 603
	November	30 496	27 547	18 381	6 216	9 815	1 984	904	1 581	96 924
	December	29 966	26 316	19 718	6 039	10 287	2 009	835	1 586	96 756
2014
	January	27 080	21 289	16 660	5 082	8 707	1 280	713	1 474	82 285
	February	27 585	23 411	17 367	5 567	9 427	1 263	791	1 407	86 818
	March	30 656	26 311	20 073	6 184	10 117	1 457	998	1 471	97 267
	April	25 625	21 108	17 041	4 897	8 604	1 182	1 070	1 183	80 710
	May	29 788	26 042	19 252	5 764	9 920	1 409	978	1 409	94 562
	June	37 575	31 327	24 643	7 531	12 440	1 743	1 258	1 792	118 309
	July	28 587	24 756	17 767	5 514	9 556	1 302	913	1 472	89 867

(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.