December key figures
| Dec 19 | Nov 19 to Dec 19 | Dec 18 to Dec 19 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| no. | % | % | ||
| TREND | ||||
| Total dwelling units approved | 14 423 | 2.1 | -5.9 | |
| Private sector houses | 8 368 | 0.3 | -10.0 | |
| Private sector dwellings excluding houses | 5 889 | 4.9 | 0.2 | |
| SEASONALLY ADJUSTED | ||||
| Total dwelling units approved | 14 752 | -0.2 | 2.7 | |
| Private sector houses | 8 486 | -0.1 | -7.1 | |
| Private sector dwellings excluding houses | 6 087 | -0.1 | 19.4 | |
December key points
Total dwelling units
- The trend estimate for total dwellings approved rose 2.1% in December.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved fell 0.2% in December.
Private sector houses
- The trend estimate for private sector houses approved rose 0.3% in December.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses fell 0.1% in December.
Private sector dwellings excluding houses
- The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 4.9% in December.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 0.1% in December.
Value of building approved
- The trend estimate of the value of total building approved fell 0.6% in December and has fallen for six months. The value of residential building rose 1.1% and has risen for four months. The value of non-residential building fell 2.7% and has fallen for five months.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 13.4% in December. The value of residential building rose 2.6%, while the value of non-residential building rose 30.9%.
Data notes
In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2018 to November 2019. Further information about potential sources of revisions can be found in the feature article released with the January 2016 8731.0 publication - "Revisions to Building Approval Statistics".
Small area data cubes and CSV files will be made available in an “Additional Information” release five business days after the main publication. These will be for Statistical Area Level 2 and Local Government Areas. Release dates are published under the “Forthcoming Issues” section of the publication and in ABS Release Advice.
A number of time series spreadsheets contain ‘np’ (not available for publication) annotations. This is due to confidential data being contained in these series.
Bushfires in December
Bushfires resulted in minor disruption to data collection activities during December 2019 in New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory. Quality assurance undertaken by the ABS confirmed that these disruptions did not result in any impacts to Building Approval statistics. Whilst it is expected that bushfire rebuilding and recovery activity will have some impact on future Building Approvals estimates this activity is not yet present in the December estimates.
Revisions this month
Revisions to the total number of dwelling units approved in the December 2019 issue are:
| Dwellings | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
|---|---|---|
| NSW | -307 | 105 |
| Vic. | - | 89 |
| Qld | -20 | 101 |
| SA | -2 | - |
| WA | - | 2 |
| Tas. | 8 | 1 |
| NT | - | - |
| ACT | - | - |
| Total | -321 | 298 |