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Bookkeeping for Orange businesses

Construction and health care head the industry chart below. Orange businesses in both groups have income that needs careful matching, from variations on a building contract to room fees paid by practitioners, and we do that matching in their own Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file.

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  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Orange businesses in figures

Estimated resident population of the Orange Significant Urban Area, 30 June 2025 (preliminary)
43,213 peopleAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Growth in the estimated resident population of the Orange Significant Urban Area, 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025
0.4%Australian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Actively trading businesses whose main business address is in the Orange Significant Urban Area, June 2025
3,546 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

How we serve Orange businesses

  • Room fees from practitioners

    Practices that rent rooms to other practitioners get those fees recorded and matched to each payment, so an unpaid room fee stands out.

  • Variations on building jobs

    Extra work agreed during a job is often invoiced separately. Variation invoices are matched to their payments alongside the main contract invoices.

  • A calmer year end

    By the end of the financial year, the file has been reconciled month by month, so your accountant isn't starting from a backlog.

Orange businesses by industry

The ABS may perturb small counts to protect confidentiality, so the figures need not add up exactly.

  1. Construction668 businesses
  2. Health Care and Social Assistance412 businesses
  3. Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services377 businesses
  4. Professional, Scientific and Technical Services340 businesses
  5. Other Services237 businesses
  6. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing220 businesses
  7. Transport, Postal and Warehousing219 businesses
  8. Retail Trade214 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Orange businesses by number of employees

The ABS may perturb small counts to protect confidentiality, so the figures need not add up exactly.

  1. Non-employing2,021 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees985 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees415 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees110 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees6 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Payroll tax and long service leave in New South Wales

Each state and territory sets its own payroll tax and long service leave rules. The payroll tax figures are for the 2026-27 financial year.

Annual payroll tax threshold in New South Wales, 2026-27
$1,200,000Revenue NSW. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Payroll tax rate in New South Wales, 2026-27
5.45%Revenue NSW. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Long service leave in New South Wales: years of service for the full entitlement
10 yearsNSW Industrial Relations. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

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Questions Orange business owners ask

We rent rooms to other practitioners. How is that recorded?
As income for the practice, set out the way your agreements describe, and matched to each practitioner's payment. Any shared costs you pass on can be recorded the same way.
Can you work out what a variation should cost?
No. Pricing a variation is between you and your client. We record the invoices you raise for it and match the payments, so the job's total stays accurate in the file.
Do the figures cover just the city?
Not necessarily. They describe an ABS Significant Urban Area, which groups whole statistical areas around an urban centre or related centres and can include surrounding rural land.
Is there a package you'd steer us towards?
We work in Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks equally. If you're choosing between them, your accountant's preference is a sensible tiebreaker, since they'll be working in the file too.
What would we pay?
It depends on how busy the file is and how much catching up it needs. We quote after looking at your books, and work begins when you accept.

Sources

  1. Population estimates by LGA, Significant Urban Area, Remoteness Area and electoral division, 2001 to 2025 (32180DS0004_2001-25.xlsx)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. Estimated resident population at 30 June, 2001 to 2025 (2022 to 2024 revised, 2025 preliminary), released 31 March 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, 2024-25 financial year, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  2. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8: Businesses by industry division by Statistical Area Level 2 by employment size ranges (8165DC08.xlsx)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. Actively trading businesses at 30 June 2025, released 16 December 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.

    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 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  3. Payroll tax thresholds and rates

    Revenue NSW. 2025-26 and 2026-27, released 1 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    © State of New South Wales through Revenue NSW Licence: Revenue NSW terms of use: copyright, State of New South Wales.

  4. Long Service Leave Guide (NSW), March 2026

    NSW Industrial Relations. First published March 2026, released 2 March 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    © State of New South Wales 2026 Licence: All rights reserved, State of New South Wales.