MAY KEY FIGURES

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales
	Trend (no.)	33 237	26 368	19 033	5 937	8 321	1 553	938	1 591	96 978
	Seasonally Adjusted (no.)	32 667	26 036	19 031	6 000	8 061	1 558	935	1 567	95 855
Change from previous month
	Trend (%)	-	-0.5	-0.8	-0.2	-1.5	-	1.6	1.5	-0.4
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	-1.4	-2.3	1.0	4.2	-4.8	-1.0	4.8	-1.9	-1.1
Change from previous year
	Trend (%)	5.8	1.1	-2.4	4.4	-5.9	-2.9	3.0	7.1	1.5
	Seasonally Adjusted (%)	3.9	2.1	-	6.8	-7.5	2.1	0.1	8.1	1.7
- 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.

MAY TREND ESTIMATES KEY POINTS

• The May 2016 trend estimate (96 978) decreased by 0.4% when compared with April 2016.
• When comparing national trend estimates for May 2016 with April 2016, sales for Passenger vehicles, Sports utility vehicles and Other vehicles decreased by 0.6%, 0.2% and 0.2% respectively.
• The largest upward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in the Northern Territory (1.6%).
• The largest downward movement across all states and territories, on a trend basis, was in Western Australia (-1.5%), continuing a downward trend which commenced in December 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
	March	42 911	32 423	19 348	94 682	-0.2	1.7	-0.1	0.5
	April	42 871	32 917	19 309	95 097	-0.1	1.5	-0.2	0.4
	May	42 892	33 419	19 208	95 519	-	1.5	-0.5	0.4
	June	42 901	33 998	19 103	96 002	-	1.7	-0.5	0.5
	July	42 926	34 588	19 018	96 532	0.1	1.7	-0.4	0.6
	August	42 902	35 141	18 979	97 022	-0.1	1.6	-0.2	0.5
	September	42 699	35 616	19 068	97 383	-0.5	1.4	0.5	0.4
	October	42 316	35 946	19 336	97 598	-0.9	0.9	1.4	0.2
	November	41 866	36 129	19 768	97 763	-1.1	0.5	2.2	0.2
	December	41 487	36 131	20 250	97 868	-0.9	-	2.4	0.1
2016
	January	41 136	36 088	20 654	97 878	-0.8	-0.1	2.0	-
	February	40 799	36 050	20 908	97 757	-0.8	-0.1	1.2	-0.1
	March	40 524	36 015	21 039	97 578	-0.7	-0.1	0.6	-0.2
	April	40 313	35 954	21 085	97 352	-0.5	-0.2	0.2	-0.2
	May	40 054	35 886	21 038	96 978	-0.6	-0.2	-0.2	-0.4
Seasonally Adjusted
2015
	March	45 055	31 635	19 242	95 932	3.8	-4.2	0.7	0.4
	April	40 761	34 719	19 357	94 837	-9.5	9.7	0.6	-1.1
	May	42 409	32 405	19 399	94 213	4.0	-6.7	0.2	-0.7
	June	44 711	33 556	19 199	97 467	5.4	3.6	-1.0	3.5
	July	42 828	34 346	19 374	96 548	-4.2	2.4	0.9	-0.9
	August	41 714	34 804	18 579	95 096	-2.6	1.3	-4.1	-1.5
	September	44 398	37 556	18 563	100 517	6.4	7.9	-0.1	5.7
	October	41 091	36 246	19 238	96 575	-7.4	-3.5	3.6	-3.9
	November	41 689	35 453	20 552	97 694	1.5	-2.2	6.8	1.2
	December	42 957	34 950	19 559	97 466	3.0	-1.4	-4.8	-0.2
2016
	January	39 933	36 918	20 981	97 832	-7.0	5.6	7.3	0.4
	February	40 544	36 535	20 791	97 870	1.5	-1.0	-0.9	-
	March	41 593	36 215	21 904	99 712	2.6	-0.9	5.4	1.9
	April	40 821	35 270	20 829	96 920	-1.9	-2.6	-4.9	-2.8
	May	39 607	35 775	20 473	95 855	-3.0	1.4	-1.7	-1.1
Original
2015
	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
	May	38 222	36 230	22 220	96 672	4.2	14.0	16.2	10.4
- 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
	March	30 676	25 926	19 332	5 805	8 928	1 600	938	1 476	94 682
	April	31 003	25 986	19 449	5 762	8 885	1 604	928	1 480	95 097
	May	31 410	26 090	19 492	5 689	8 842	1 599	911	1 486	95 519
	June	31 834	26 222	19 542	5 615	8 806	1 594	889	1 500	96 002
	July	32 211	26 362	19 619	5 576	8 785	1 595	865	1 520	96 532
	August	32 455	26 497	19 706	5 599	8 781	1 604	841	1 538	97 022
	September	32 555	26 617	19 773	5 674	8 788	1 610	825	1 542	97 383
	October	32 573	26 699	19 805	5 776	8 791	1 609	817	1 528	97 598
	November	32 615	26 739	19 802	5 881	8 794	1 601	823	1 508	97 763
	December	32 730	26 730	19 742	5 957	8 785	1 589	839	1 495	97 868
2016
	January	32 879	26 701	19 630	5 989	8 743	1 577	861	1 498	97 878
	February	33 028	26 640	19 479	5 982	8 663	1 564	884	1 516	97 757
	March	33 155	26 565	19 329	5 967	8 559	1 557	905	1 542	97 578
	April	33 232	26 490	19 191	5 951	8 444	1 553	923	1 568	97 352
	May	33 237	26 368	19 033	5 937	8 321	1 553	938	1 591	96 978
Seasonally Adjusted
2015
	March	30 804	25 984	20 303	5 741	9 117	1 582	897	1 505	95 932
	April	30 350	26 482	19 544	5 767	8 699	1 594	951	1 449	94 837
	May	31 439	25 507	19 024	5 616	8 718	1 526	934	1 449	94 213
	June	32 554	26 180	20 057	5 676	8 969	1 646	881	1 504	97 467
	July	31 931	26 754	19 486	5 653	8 738	1 611	856	1 519	96 548
	August	31 945	25 837	19 253	5 287	8 736	1 708	825	1 505	95 096
	September	33 587	27 563	20 323	5 742	8 920	1 930	823	1 628	100 517
	October	32 367	26 185	19 460	5 876	8 657	1 623	855	1 552	96 575
	November	32 350	26 627	20 261	5 826	8 789	1 545	794	1 501	97 694
	December	32 494	26 991	19 243	6 016	8 790	1 667	824	1 441	97 466
2016
	January	32 530	26 611	19 926	6 082	8 827	1 564	829	1 462	97 832
	February	33 333	26 623	19 400	5 928	8 666	1 513	927	1 480	97 870
	March	33 834	26 638	20 416	6 059	8 647	1 558	941	1 617	99 712
	April	33 142	26 652	18 834	5 759	8 470	1 574	892	1 597	96 920
	May	32 667	26 036	19 031	6 000	8 061	1 558	935	1 567	95 855
Original
2015
	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
	May	32 867	26 125	19 565	5 949	7 935	1 503	1 180	1 548	96 672
(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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