- Actively trading businesses in Non-Store Retailing (ANZSIC class 4310) across Australia, June 2025
- 24,869 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- Actively trading non-employing businesses in Non-Store Retailing (ANZSIC class 4310) across Australia, June 2025
- 17,968 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, June 2025.
- ABS business entries in Non-Store Retailing (ANZSIC class 4310) across Australia: counted at June 2025 but not June 2024
- 5,882 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2, 2024-25.
- ABS business exits in Non-Store Retailing (ANZSIC class 4310) across Australia: counted at June 2024 but not June 2025
- 5,446 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 retailing goods without the use of a shopfront or physical store presence, including milk vendors, sole e-commerce retailers and direct shopping businesses.
Examples the ABS lists:
- Direct mail retailing
- Direct selling of books
- Direct selling of cosmetics
- Direct selling of goods n.e.c.
- Internet retailing
- Milk vending
- Mobile food retailing (except takeaway food)
- Vending machine operation (except leasing)
The ABS counts businesses mainly engaged in this related work in other classes:
- the retailing of goods through means of a shopfront or physical store presence are included in the appropriate classes of subdivisions within the Retail Trade Division
- providing mobile food services such as ice cream vending from a van are included in Class 4512 Takeaway Food Services
The ABS page for class 4310 gives the full definition and what the class leaves out.
By employment size
| Businesses | Count |
|---|---|
| All businesses | 24,869 businesses |
| Non-employing | 17,968 businesses |
| 1 to 4 employees | 5,330 businesses |
| 5 to 19 employees | 1,298 businesses |
| 20 to 199 employees | 258 businesses |
| 200 or more employees | 15 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 | 8,063 businesses |
| $50k to less than $200k | 8,705 businesses |
| $200k to less than $2m | 6,535 businesses |
| $2m to less than $5m | 929 businesses |
| $5m to less than $10m | 301 businesses |
| $10m or more | 336 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 | 24,433 businesses |
| ABS business entries | 5,882 businesses |
| ABS business exits | 5,446 businesses |
| At the end of the year | 24,869 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 | 8,863 businesses |
| Victoria | 6,612 businesses |
| Queensland | 5,290 businesses |
| Western Australia | 2,029 businesses |
| South Australia | 1,266 businesses |
| Tasmania | 307 businesses |
| Australian Capital Territory | 285 businesses |
| Northern Territory | 95 businesses |
| Other Territories or Currently Unknown | 122 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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