DWELLING UNITS APPROVED BY TYPE OF DWELLING 2009–10


STATES AND TERRITORIES

The number of dwelling units approved in the States and Territories during 2009-10 is shown in the table below for each type of dwelling category.

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
New houses		17 048	39 058	22 767	10 012	20 375	2 562	760	2 208	114 790
New semidetached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc of:
	One storey	3 521	3 027	1 677	1 279	2 647	484	296	369	13 300
	Two or more storeys	2 509	3 806	2 465	834	644	66	25	463	10 812
	Total	6 030	6 833	4 142	2 113	3 291	550	321	832	24 112
New flats, units, apartments in a building of:
	One or two storeys	3 517	1 578	2 580	286	528	126	72	308	8 995
	Three storeys	1 058	1 056	1 060	108	127	-	-	426	3 835
	Four or more storeys	5 152	7 590	3 111	73	1 000	-	156	763	17 845
	Total	9 727	10 224	6 751	467	1 655	126	228	1 497	30 675
Total new other residential building		15 757	17 057	10 893	2 580	4 946	676	549	2 329	54 787
Other
	Alterations and additions to residential building	94	84	35	4	14	4	15	-	250
	Conversion	242	98	11	7	3	4	10	-	375
	Non-residential building	63	83	11	7	31	1	10	2	208
Total building		33 204	56 380	33 717	12 610	25 369	3 247	1 344	4 539	170 410
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

SUMMARY COMMENT

The estimated number of dwelling units approved in Australia rose from 133,088 in 2008-09 to 170,410 in 2009-10, a rise of 28.0%. Of the estimate of total dwelling units approved in 2009-10, 114,790 (67.4%) were new houses whereas in 2008-09 houses accounted for 70.5% of dwelling units approved. The proportion of total new other residential building rose from 28.7% in 2008-09 to 32.2% in 2009-10, driven by rising proportions in New South Wales and Victoria, which rose from 42.2% to 47.5% and 26.3% to 30.3% respectively.