Building and construction

The May 2025 seasonally adjusted estimate: 

• Total dwellings approved rose 3.2% to 15,212.
• Private sector houses rose 0.5% to 9,454 and private sector dwellings excluding houses rose 11.3%, to 5,571.
• The value of total residential building rose 3.6%, to $9.28b.
• The value of total non-residential building fell 22.4%, to $6.16b.

In the March quarter:

• Seasonally adjusted work done fell 1.7%.
• Seasonally adjusted work done for the private sector rose 0.3%.
• Value of work commenced fell 9.1% in original terms.
• Trend work done rose 0.4%.

In seasonally adjusted terms in the March quarter:

• Total construction work done was flat (0.0%) at $74,430.2m
• Building work done rose 0.9% to $39,069.1m
• Engineering work done fell 1.0% to $35,361.1m

The trend estimate for total construction work done rose 0.7% to $74,722.7m.

In seasonally adjusted terms:

• The total number of dwelling units commenced fell 4.4% to 41,911 dwellings.
• New private sector house commencements fell 6.1% to 26,136 dwellings.
• New private sector other residential commencements fell 5.6% to 14,196 dwellings.
• The value of total building work done fell 0.7% to $38.4b.

• Australia’s dwelling stock was 10,879,349 dwellings at 30 June 2022.

• The net quarterly growth was 38,535 dwellings (0.4%), comprising 45,522 dwelling additions and 6,987 dwelling removals.

• The net quarterly growth of houses, townhouses and apartments was 23,456 (0.3%), 6,713 (0.5%) and 8,361 (0.5%) respectively. 

• 80.6% of in-scope land parcels were zoned residential, with 600 - 800 square metres the most common size
• 59.5% of new dwellings in-scope were approved for land zoned residential, with 200 - 400 square metres the most common area per dwelling

Provides final estimates of value of construction work done, in chain volume measures