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Consultancies and landlords lead the way in the industry chart below, tallied across the SA2s that each figure names, with professional, scientific and technical services ahead of rental, hiring and real estate services, and between them their books mix fees billed by project stage with rent from property. Your ledger stays yours in MYOB, Xero or QuickBooks, and month end shows which client invoices are still open and, where your software tracks property, what each property earned.

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  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Actively trading businesses whose main business address is in the Chatswood - East and Chatswood (West) - Lane Cove North SA2s (2021 boundaries), June 2025

7,806 businesses

Estimated resident population of the Chatswood - East and Chatswood (West) - Lane Cove North SA2s (2021 boundaries), 30 June 2025 (preliminary)
45,264 people
Growth in the estimated resident population of the Chatswood - East and Chatswood (West) - Lane Cove North SA2s (2021 boundaries), 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025
1.3%
The ABS counts businesses and people by Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2), not by suburb. These SA2s take in land outside the suburb, and part of the suburb lies in other SA2s.

How we serve Chatswood businesses

  • Rent and outgoings by property

    Where you hold investment or commercial property, rent received and outgoings like strata levies, council rates and repairs are tagged property by property, if your software can track property.

  • Fee invoices tracked to payment

    Stage bills from your job software go into the ledger as they're issued, and when a client pays only part of a bill, the balance stays visible as owing.

  • Every account reconciled monthly

    Your everyday account, savings account, cards and loans are reconciled against their statements monthly, and differences we can't trace from your records come back as a short list of questions.

Businesses by industry in these SA2s

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

  1. Professional, Scientific and Technical Services1,635 businesses
  2. Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services1,246 businesses
  3. Financial and Insurance Services752 businesses
  4. Construction722 businesses
  5. Health Care and Social Assistance692 businesses
  6. Wholesale Trade437 businesses
  7. Retail Trade420 businesses
  8. Accommodation and Food Services356 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Businesses by number of employees in these SA2s

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

  1. Non-employing4,778 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees2,098 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees699 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees211 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees12 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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What Chatswood business owners ask

Whose figures are these, and which area do they cover?
The ABS supplies them, counting businesses and estimating population across Statistical Areas Level 2 and leaving suburbs out of it. Every figure is captioned with its SA2s, and the page's card shows how those SA2s relate to the suburb.
We hold investment property alongside the business. Can you track it separately?
Yes, whether it sits in the business file or in a file of its own. Rent received and costs such as repairs, strata levies and property manager fees are coded per property, using tracking where your software offers it. How each item is treated is up to your accountant, and we record it that way.
Our consultancy invoices by project stage. How do you handle that?
Your project or practice system keeps track of billable work. We enter the stage invoices it produces, apply receipts against them and send an aged list of what remains unpaid at month end.
Does it matter if our books are in MYOB rather than Xero?
No. MYOB, Xero and QuickBooks all work for us, and we stay in the file you already hold, so your accounts, contacts and past transactions carry on unchanged.
We'd like a quote. What should we send?
On the contact page, jot down your software, a tally of the accounts and cards in use and the point your books are entered up to. The quote comes back before any work begins.

Sources

  1. Population estimates by SA2 and above, 2001 to 2025 (32180DS0003_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.