Optometry and Optical Dispensing: ABS business counts
ANZSIC class 8532, in the Health Care and Social Assistance division.
- Actively trading businesses in Optometry and Optical Dispensing (ANZSIC class 8532) across Australia, June 2025
- 3,341 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- Actively trading non-employing businesses in Optometry and Optical Dispensing (ANZSIC class 8532) across Australia, June 2025
- 1,314 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- ABS business entries in Optometry and Optical Dispensing (ANZSIC class 8532) across Australia: counted at June 2025 but not June 2024
- 248 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25.
- ABS business exits in Optometry and Optical Dispensing (ANZSIC class 8532) across Australia: counted at June 2024 but not June 2025
- 291 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25.
About these figures
- These ABS figures count actively trading businesses, not workers, sites or venues, each in its main state or territory.
- Entries and exits compare two 30 June counts. They are not counts of openings and closures.
- The ABS adjusts its counts slightly to protect confidentiality, so a small number or a zero is approximate, not proof that no such business exists.
Summary of the ABS class definition
In this class, the ABS counts businesses of registered optometrists mainly engaged in testing sight, diagnosing sight defects or in prescribing or dispensing spectacles or contact lenses on prescription.
Examples the ABS lists:
- Contact lens dispensing
- Eye testing (optometrist)
- Optical dispensing
- Optician service
- Orthoptic service
- Spectacles dispensing
The ABS counts businesses mainly engaged in this related work in other classes:
- manufacturing ophthalmic articles or spectacle frames or in grinding spectacle lenses are included in Class 2411 Photographic, Optical and Ophthalmic Equipment Manufacturing
- providing ophthalmic specialist services are included in Class 8512 Specialist Medical Services
The ABS page for class 8532 gives the full definition and what the class leaves out.
By employment size
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| All businesses | 3,341 businesses |
| Non-employing | 1,314 businesses |
| 1 to 4 employees | 1,040 businesses |
| 5 to 19 employees | 806 businesses |
| 20 to 199 employees | 174 businesses |
| 200 or more employees | 7 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
By turnover
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| Zero to less than $50k | 535 businesses |
| $50k to less than $200k | 861 businesses |
| $200k to less than $2m | 1,439 businesses |
| $2m to less than $5m | 388 businesses |
| $5m to less than $10m | 96 businesses |
| $10m or more | 22 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 3, June 2025. Checked 16 Oct 2026.
Entries and exits, 2024-25
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| At the start of the year | 3,384 businesses |
| ABS business entries | 248 businesses |
| ABS business exits | 291 businesses |
| At the end of the year | 3,341 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
By main state or territory
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| New South Wales | 1,272 businesses |
| Victoria | 907 businesses |
| Queensland | 613 businesses |
| Western Australia | 285 businesses |
| South Australia | 162 businesses |
| Tasmania | 42 businesses |
| Australian Capital Territory | 43 businesses |
| Northern Territory | 17 businesses |
| Other Territories or Currently Unknown | 0 businesses |
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Sources
Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 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.
Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 3: Businesses by main state by industry class by turnover size ranges (8165DC03.xlsx). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 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 16 October 2026.
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.
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.
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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