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Financial and Insurance Services: ABS business counts by industry class

ANZSIC division K.

Actively trading businesses in Financial and Insurance Services (ANZSIC division K) across Australia, June 2025
133,743 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8, June 2025.
Actively trading non-employing businesses in Financial and Insurance Services (ANZSIC division K) across Australia, June 2025
95,341 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8, June 2025.
Actively trading businesses in Financial and Insurance Services (ANZSIC division K) with 1 to 4 employees across Australia, June 2025
30,770 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8, June 2025.

About these figures

  • These ABS figures count actively trading businesses, not workers, sites or venues, each in its main state or territory.
  • Each state's figure adds up the ABS counts for the small areas in it. The ABS adjusts those counts slightly to protect confidentiality, so the sums are approximate.

Summary of the ABS division definition

The Financial and Insurance Services Division includes businesses mainly engaged in financial transactions involving the creation, liquidation, or change in ownership of financial assets, and/or in facilitating financial transactions.

The ABS page for division K gives the full definition.

By employment size

Financial and Insurance Services businesses across Australia by employment size
BusinessesCount
All businesses133,743 businesses
Non-employing95,341 businesses
1 to 4 employees30,770 businesses
5 to 19 employees5,853 businesses
20 to 199 employees1,564 businesses
200 or more employees215 businesses

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8, June 2025. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

By main state or territory

Financial and Insurance Services businesses by main state or territory
BusinessesCount
New South Wales51,494 businesses
Victoria37,212 businesses
Queensland22,066 businesses
Western Australia12,550 businesses
South Australia7,121 businesses
Tasmania1,288 businesses
Australian Capital Territory1,450 businesses
Northern Territory517 businesses

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8, June 2025. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Sources

  1. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8: Businesses by industry division by Statistical Area Level 2 by employment size ranges (8165DC08.xlsx). Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2021 to June 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 16 December 2025, checked 15 October 2026.

  2. Correspondence, GCCSA 2021 to GCCSA 2026 (CG_GCCSA_2021_GCCSA_2026.csv). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 22 July 2026, checked 15 October 2026.

  3. Greater Capital City Statistical Areas digital boundary file, 2026 (GCCSA_2026_AUST_SHP_GDA2020.zip). Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 22 July 2026, checked 15 October 2026.

  4. Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (Revision 2.0): the detailed classification. Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (Revision 2.0), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Released 26 June 2013, checked 16 October 2026.

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