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Bookkeeping for Bendigo businesses

Health care and social assistance sits just behind construction in the industry chart for Bendigo businesses, with professional, scientific and technical services next. Practices and firms like these can hand us the monthly books and stay in their existing Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file. Further down, the page sets out the Victorian payroll tax and long service leave figures.

  • By Book Keeping Pros
  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Bendigo businesses in figures

Estimated resident population of the Bendigo Significant Urban Area, 30 June 2025 (preliminary)
106,493 peopleAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Growth in the estimated resident population of the Bendigo Significant Urban Area, 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025
0.8%Australian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Actively trading businesses whose main business address is in the Bendigo Significant Urban Area, June 2025
7,443 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

What we do for Bendigo businesses

  • Practitioner payments matched

    For clinics that pay contracted practitioners, each payment is matched to the practitioner's invoice or statement, so every amount paid out can be traced in the file.

  • Fees recorded as they're banked

    Patient and client fees are recorded as they reach the bank, whether they arrive through a card terminal, a payment platform or a direct transfer.

  • Overdue invoices listed

    Firms that bill after the work is done get an aged list each month showing which invoices are unpaid and for how long, so you can decide who to follow up.

Bendigo businesses by industry

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

  1. Construction1,581 businesses
  2. Health Care and Social Assistance878 businesses
  3. Professional, Scientific and Technical Services736 businesses
  4. Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services719 businesses
  5. Transport, Postal and Warehousing553 businesses
  6. Retail Trade495 businesses
  7. Other Services451 businesses
  8. Accommodation and Food Services404 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Bendigo businesses by number of employees

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

  1. Non-employing4,371 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees1,893 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees906 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees256 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 Victoria

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. Regional employer discounts and payroll tax surcharges may apply. See the detailed rules and confirm your position with the State Revenue Office or your accountant.

Annual payroll tax threshold in Victoria, 2026-27
$1,000,000Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Victoria. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Standard payroll tax rate in Victoria, 2026-27
4.85%Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Victoria. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Long service leave in Victoria: years of continuous employment before leave is due, or paid on leaving for any reason
7 yearsOffice of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Victoria. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

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What Bendigo business owners ask us

Our clinic pays several contracted practitioners. Can you keep those payments straight?
Yes. Each payment is matched to the invoice or statement it settles, and if your file already separates income by practitioner, we keep that split current. How the arrangements themselves are structured is a question for your accountant.
We're moving from another bookkeeper. What do you need?
Access to your Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file, statements for the months since the last reconciliation, and any notes your previous bookkeeper left. We check where the reconciliations stopped and carry on from that point.
Which area do the population and business counts describe?
They cover the ABS Significant Urban Area, which groups whole statistical areas around an urban centre or related centres. It can include surrounding rural land and is not a council boundary.
Can you send us reports each month?
Yes. When the month's accounts are reconciled, we send the profit and loss and balance sheet from your file, set beside earlier months so changes stand out. What to do about the figures is a conversation for you and your accountant.
How do you price a practice's bookkeeping?
We look at the number of practitioners and accounts, the volume of transactions and how current the file is, then quote before work starts.

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 Act 2007 (Vic), Authorised Version No. 041

    Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Victoria. Authorised Version No. 041, as at 1 May 2026, released 1 May 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    © State of Victoria (Government Printer) Licence: Victorian Legislation copyright notice: copyright, State of Victoria.

  4. Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic), Authorised Version No. 006

    Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Victoria. Authorised Version No. 006, as at 12 December 2025, released 12 December 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.

    © State of Victoria (Government Printer) Licence: Victorian Legislation copyright notice: copyright, State of Victoria.