- Actively trading businesses in Meat Processing (ANZSIC class 1111) across Australia, June 2025
- 633 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- Actively trading non-employing businesses in Meat Processing (ANZSIC class 1111) across Australia, June 2025
- 324 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- ABS business entries in Meat Processing (ANZSIC class 1111) across Australia: counted at June 2025 but not June 2024
- 92 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25.
- ABS business exits in Meat Processing (ANZSIC class 1111) across Australia: counted at June 2024 but not June 2025
- 79 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 mainly engaged in slaughtering animals (except poultry), boning, freezing, preserving or packing meat (except poultry) or canning meat (except poultry, seafood, bacon, ham and corned meat). Businesses mainly engaged in manufacturing meat from abattoir by-products (except from products of poultry slaughtering) and rendering lard or tallow are also included.
Examples the ABS lists:
- Abattoir operation (except poultry)
- Animal meat packing and freezing
- Animal oil or fat, unrefined, manufacturing
- Lard or tallow rendering
- Meat extract or essence manufacturing
- Meat manufacturing (except bacon, ham and poultry)
- Meat or bone meal manufacturing (except fish or poultry meal)
- Meat packing (except poultry)
- Meat, canned, manufacturing (except poultry, bacon, ham and corned meat)
- Meat, dehydrated, manufacturing (except poultry)
The ABS counts businesses mainly engaged in this related work in other classes:
- slaughtering, dressing, processing and packing poultry are included in Class 1112 Poultry Processing
- manufacturing or canning cured meats are included in Class 1113 Cured Meat and Smallgoods Manufacturing
- manufacturing refined animal oils or fats are included in Class 1150 Oil and Fat Manufacturing
The ABS page for class 1111 gives the full definition and what the class leaves out.
By employment size
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| All businesses | 633 businesses |
| Non-employing | 324 businesses |
| 1 to 4 employees | 107 businesses |
| 5 to 19 employees | 87 businesses |
| 20 to 199 employees | 71 businesses |
| 200 or more employees | 44 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 | 115 businesses |
| $50k to less than $200k | 161 businesses |
| $200k to less than $2m | 159 businesses |
| $2m to less than $5m | 52 businesses |
| $5m to less than $10m | 29 businesses |
| $10m or more | 117 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 | 620 businesses |
| ABS business entries | 92 businesses |
| ABS business exits | 79 businesses |
| At the end of the year | 633 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 | 181 businesses |
| Victoria | 163 businesses |
| Queensland | 132 businesses |
| Western Australia | 65 businesses |
| South Australia | 63 businesses |
| Tasmania | 22 businesses |
| Australian Capital Territory | 3 businesses |
| Northern Territory | 4 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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