Building Activity, Australia

Latest release

Provides estimates of value of building work and number of dwellings commenced, completed, under construction and in the pipeline

Reference period

March 2023

Released

12/07/2023

Key statistics

In seasonally adjusted terms:

Total dwelling commencements rose 14.0% to 46,546 dwellings.
New private sector house commencements fell 5.5% to 26,026 dwellings.
New private sector other residential commencements rose 57.2% to 19,344 dwellings.
The value of total building work done fell 0.4% to $30.7b.

Number of dwellings commenced

Number of dwellings commenced, seasonally adjusted
	Mar qtr 23 no.	Dec qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change	Mar qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change
New private sector houses	26,026	-5.5	-15.8
New private sector other residential building	19,344	57.2	11.8
Total dwelling units commenced	46,546	14.0	-6.6

Number of dwellings commenced, trend
	Mar qtr 23 no.	Dec qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change	Mar qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change
New private sector houses	26,144	-5.0	-17.0
New private sector other residential building	16,479	9.8	-6.3
Total dwelling units commenced	43,701	0.4	-13.4

Dwellings commenced
	Trend	Seasonally adjusted
Mar-15	55,404	55,439
Jun-15	56,328	57,340
Sep-15	57,826	57,215
Dec-15	58,985	57,598
Mar-16	59,340	62,108
Jun-16	58,960	57,557
Sep-16	57,433	56,488
Dec-16	55,565	58,170
Mar-17	54,466	52,072
Jun-17	53,885	54,252
Sep-17	54,340	55,152
Dec-17	55,513	54,723
Mar-18	56,607	62,385
Jun-18	56,750	57,350
Sep-18	54,325	55,930
Dec-18	50,345	48,702
Mar-19	46,536	45,952
Jun-19	44,051	45,764
Sep-19	42,894	41,269
Dec-19	42,431	42,717
Mar-20	41,968	47,023
Jun-20	42,452	42,412
Sep-20	44,717	41,855
Dec-20	48,867	51,394
Mar-21	53,318	53,108
Jun-21	55,795	67,306
Sep-21	55,510	57,223
Dec-21	53,563	52,825
Mar-22	50,445	49,861
Jun-22	46,805	47,722
Sep-22	44,509	44,483
Dec-22	43,534	40,837
Mar-23	43,701	46,546

Dwellings commenced

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Private dwellings commenced, seasonally adjusted
	New other residential	New houses
Mar-15	24,942	29,249
Jun-15	27,287	28,104
Sep-15	26,328	28,902
Dec-15	28,265	28,107
Mar-16	32,712	28,077
Jun-16	25,971	29,761
Sep-16	25,862	29,561
Dec-16	27,900	28,846
Mar-17	24,609	26,241
Jun-17	24,356	28,658
Sep-17	25,096	28,850
Dec-17	23,412	30,016
Mar-18	30,555	30,668
Jun-18	26,149	30,581
Sep-18	25,471	29,550
Dec-18	19,909	27,597
Mar-19	17,426	27,921
Jun-19	18,864	25,965
Sep-19	15,246	25,087
Dec-19	17,168	24,858
Mar-20	20,739	25,500
Jun-20	15,690	25,665
Sep-20	14,008	26,869
Dec-20	16,499	33,700
Mar-21	16,072	35,858
Jun-21	23,405	42,697
Sep-21	20,515	35,571
Dec-21	18,259	33,346
Mar-22	17,307	30,916
Jun-22	16,234	30,371
Sep-22	14,671	28,890
Dec-22	12,302	27,547
Mar-23	19,344	26,026

Private dwellings commenced, seasonally adjusted

["","New other residential","New houses"]

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The total number of dwelling units commenced in Australia rose 14.0% to 46,546 dwellings in the March quarter, in seasonally adjusted terms. Private sector other residential buildings drove the increase, rising 57.2% to 19,344 dwellings and are 11.8% higher for the year. Private sector house commencements fell 5.5% to 26,026 dwellings, following a fall of 4.6% in the December quarter and are down 15.8% for the year.

Dwellings under construction, original
	Total dwellings
Mar-15	184,084
Jun-15	189,852
Sep-15	197,674
Dec-15	202,850
Mar-16	221,442
Jun-16	219,563
Sep-16	225,469
Dec-16	220,100
Mar-17	219,357
Jun-17	217,966
Sep-17	221,207
Dec-17	220,111
Mar-18	230,841
Jun-18	229,690
Sep-18	228,772
Dec-18	218,489
Mar-19	216,194
Jun-19	207,739
Sep-19	201,359
Dec-19	188,436
Mar-20	190,802
Jun-20	185,286
Sep-20	183,709
Dec-20	186,334
Mar-21	195,201
Jun-21	214,310
Sep-21	227,507
Dec-21	233,274
Mar-22	240,156
Jun-22	243,078
Sep-22	243,456
Dec-22	237,684
Mar-23	240,813

Dwellings under construction, original

["","Total dwellings"]

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Dwellings under construction increased 1.3% to 240,813 dwellings in the March quarter. New houses accounted for 103,778 of the dwellings under construction.

Value of work done

Value of work done, seasonally adjusted chain volume measures (a)
	Mar qtr 23 $m	Dec qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change	Mar qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change
New residential building	15,425.6	-2.0	-4.7
Alterations and additions to residential building	2,678.5	2.1	-6.2
Non-residential building	12,613.8	1.2	2.8
Total value of work done	30,718.0	-0.4	-1.9

Value of work done, trend chain volume measures (a)
	Mar qtr 23 $m	Dec qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change	Mar qtr 22 to Mar qtr 23 % change
New residential building	15,625.8	0.5	-0.9
Alterations and additions to residential building	2,640.2	-0.6	-7.1
Non-residential building	12,611.6	0.2	2.8
Total value of work done	30,880.0	0.3	0.0

(a) Reference year for Chain Volume Measures is 2020-2021

Value of work done, total building
	Trend ($m)	Seasonally adjusted ($m)
Mar-15	28,119.9	28,713.5
Jun-15	28,558	28,204.4
Sep-15	28,959.2	28,918.9
Dec-15	29,601.2	29,674.3
Mar-16	30,206	30,058.8
Jun-16	30,437.3	30,977.9
Sep-16	30,460	29,859
Dec-16	30,442.6	30,741.3
Mar-17	30,523.8	30,509.1
Jun-17	30,778	30,668.4
Sep-17	31,087.8	31,100.1
Dec-17	31,654.1	31,687.9
Mar-18	32,198.1	32,067
Jun-18	32,549.4	32,825.2
Sep-18	32,741.1	32,517.6
Dec-18	32,579.5	32,613.5
Mar-19	32,204.4	32,567.8
Jun-19	31,746.1	31,159.8
Sep-19	31,377.5	31,789.1
Dec-19	31,159	30,856.9
Mar-20	30,836.7	31,159.2
Jun-20	30,372.3	30,313.9
Sep-20	30,136.5	29,936.5
Dec-20	30,293.8	30,317.8
Mar-21	30,797.2	30,730.8
Jun-21	31,141.9	31,420.9
Sep-21	31,278.2	31,142.2
Dec-21	31,132.5	31,019.7
Mar-22	30,885.7	31,306
Jun-22	30,753.1	30,185
Sep-22	30,734	30,998.5
Dec-22	30,787.3	30,838.8
Mar-23	30,880	30,718

Value of work done, total building

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Value of work done, seasonally adjusted chain volume measures
	New residential ($m)	Non-residential ($m)
Mar-15	16,212.3	10,168.3
Jun-15	15,818.3	10,015.2
Sep-15	16,516.6	10,040.8
Dec-15	17,135.6	10,208.7
Mar-16	17,818.3	9,937.5
Jun-16	18,152.5	10,411.8
Sep-16	17,903.1	9,555.3
Dec-16	18,451.7	9,799.3
Mar-17	17,731.4	10,438.2
Jun-17	17,646.5	10,560.3
Sep-17	17,905	10,967
Dec-17	17,892	11,513.4
Mar-18	18,275.1	11,392
Jun-18	18,958.4	11,450.5
Sep-18	18,713.2	11,303.9
Dec-18	18,546.5	11,626.5
Mar-19	17,984.2	12,231.8
Jun-19	17,313	11,524.1
Sep-19	17,013.5	12,407.8
Dec-19	16,166.7	12,298.3
Mar-20	15,970.8	12,722.5
Jun-20	15,510.8	12,482.7
Sep-20	15,398.8	12,032
Dec-20	15,928.6	11,762.1
Mar-21	16,142.5	11,712.1
Jun-21	16,458.4	12,157.7
Sep-21	16,218.5	11,964.8
Dec-21	15,925.6	12,249.1
Mar-22	16,179.7	12,271.6
Jun-22	15,123.1	12,281.1
Sep-22	15,588.5	12,727.6
Dec-22	15,746.3	12,469.1
Mar-23	15,425.6	12,613.8

Value of work done, seasonally adjusted chain volume measures

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The value of total building work done fell 0.4% to $30.7b in March quarter, in seasonally adjusted terms. The fall was driven by new residential building work done, which fell 2.0% to $15.4b and follows an increase of 1.0% in the December quarter. Work done on non-residential building rose 1.2% to $12.6b and is 2.8% higher for the year. Work done on alterations and additions to residential buildings rose 2.1% to $2.7b.

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TABLE 01. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 02. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 03. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 04. Value of Residential Building Work Done, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 05. Value of Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 06. Value of Building Work Commenced by Sector, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 07. Value of Residential Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 09. Value of Building Work Done, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures
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TABLE 10. Value of Building Work Done, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures: Original
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TABLE 12. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Australia
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TABLE 13. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, New South Wales
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TABLE 14. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Victoria
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TABLE 16. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, South Australia
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TABLE 17. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Western Australia
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TABLE 18. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Tasmania
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TABLE 19. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Northern Territory
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TABLE 20. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Australian Capital Territory
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TABLE 21. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Australia
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TABLE 22. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, New South Wales
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TABLE 23. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Victoria
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TABLE 24. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Queensland
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TABLE 25. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, South Australia
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TABLE 27. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Tasmania
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TABLE 28. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Northern Territory
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TABLE 29. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Australian Capital Territory
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TABLE 30. Value of Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia
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TABLE 31. Value of Residential Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia
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TABLE 32. Value of Total Building Work Done, States and Territories
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TABLE 33. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements by Sector, Australia
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TABLE 34. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements by Sector, States and Territories
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TABLE 35. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements, States and Territories
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TABLE 36. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements by Sector, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 37. Number of Dwelling Unit Completions by Sector, Australia
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TABLE 38. Number of Dwelling Unit Completions by Sector, States and Territories
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TABLE 39. Number of Dwelling Unit Completions by Sector, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 40. Value of Building Work by Sector, Australia: Original
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TABLE 41. Value of Building Work by Sector, New South Wales: Original
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TABLE 42. Value of Building Work by Sector, Victoria: Original
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TABLE 43. Value of Building Work by Sector, Queensland: Original
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TABLE 44. Value of Building Work by Sector, South Australia: Original
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TABLE 45. Value of Building Work by Sector, Western Australia: Original
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TABLE 46. Value of Building Work by Sector, Tasmania: Original
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TABLE 47. Value of Building Work by Sector, Northern Territory: Original
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TABLE 48. Value of Building Work by Sector, Australian Capital Territory: Original
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TABLE 49. Value of Building Work Under Construction, by Sector, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 50. Value of Building Work Yet to be Done, by Sector, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 51. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Australia: Original
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TABLE 52. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, New South Wales: Original
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TABLE 53. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Victoria: Original
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TABLE 54. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Queensland: Original
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TABLE 55. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, South Australia: Original
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TABLE 56. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Western Australia: Original
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TABLE 57. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Tasmania: Original
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TABLE 58. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Northern Territory: Original
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TABLE 59. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Australian Capital Territory: Original
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TABLE 60. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Australia: Original
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TABLE 61. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, New South Wales: Original
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TABLE 62. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Victoria: Original
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TABLE 63. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Queensland: Original
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TABLE 64. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, South Australia: Original
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TABLE 65. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Western Australia: Original
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TABLE 66. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Tasmania: Original
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TABLE 67. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Northern Territory: Original
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TABLE 68. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Australian Capital Territory: Original
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TABLE 69. Value of Non-residential Building Work Under Construction, by Sector, Australia: Original
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TABLE 70. Value of Non-residential Building Work Under Construction, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 71. Value of Non-residential Building Work Completed, by Sector, Australia: Original
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TABLE 72. Value of Non-residential Building Work Completed, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 73. Value of Non-residential Building Work Yet to be Done, by Sector, Australia: Original
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TABLE 74. Value of Non-residential Building Work Yet to be Done, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 75. Value of Building Work Completed by Sector, Australia
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TABLE 76. Number of Dwelling Units Under Construction, by Sector, Australia: Original
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TABLE 77. Number of Dwelling Units Under Construction, by Sector, States and Territories: Original
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TABLE 78. Value of Work in the Pipeline, Current Prices, Original, Australia
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TABLE 79. Value of Work in the Pipeline, States and Territories, Current Prices, Original
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TABLE 80. Number of Dwellings Approved but Not Yet Commenced at End of Quarter, States and Territories, Original
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File contents

The Building Activity: Australia data cube contains original current price data at finer levels of building type than is available in the time series spreadsheets.

The Building Activity: Australia pivot table contains the following data items
Data item	Classification
State/Territory	All States and Territories
Reference quarter	Quarterly (September 2001 to current)
Sector of ownership	Private, Public, Total
Type of building	Houses
	Semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses - One storey
	Semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses - Two or more storeys
	Semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses - Total
	Apartments - In a one or two storey block
	Apartments - In a three storey block
	Apartments - In a four to eight storey block
	Apartments - Nine or more storeys
	Apartments - Total including those attached to a house
	Total other residential
	Total residential
	Retail and wholesale trade buildings
	Transport buildings
	Offices
	Commercial buildings n.e.c
	Commercial buildings - Total
	Factories and other secondary production buildings
	Warehouses
	Agricultural and aquacultural buildings
	Other industrial buildings n.e.c.
	Industrial buildings - Total
	Education buildings
	Religious buildings
	Aged care facilities
	Health buildings
	Entertainment and recreation buildings
	Short term accommodation buildings
	Other non-residential n.e.c.
	Other non-residential - Total
	Total non-residential
	Dwellings excluding new residential
	Dwellings excluding houses
	Total
Type of work	New
	Total alterations and additions (incl. refurbishment and conversion)
	Total
Data items	Value of work done during quarter ($m)
	Value of work yet to be done ($m)
	Value of work in pipeline ($m)
	Value of work not yet commenced ($m)
	Value of work commenced ($m)
	Value of work completed ($m)
	Value of work under construction ($m)
	Dwelling units not yet commenced (no.)
	Dwelling units commenced (no.)
	Dwelling units completed (no.)
	Dwelling units under construction (no.)

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Data files

Relative standard errors, value by sector, stage and type of construction; state and Australia
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Relative standard errors, dwellings by sector, stage and type of construction; state and Australia
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Relative standard errors; non-residential building by sector and stage of construction, state and Australia
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Relative standard errors; value of work in pipeline; state and Australia
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Building activity: validation table for data cube
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Data items available by Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS)
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Building activity: Australia
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Data Explorer datasets

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Building Activity by state - value of building work and number of dwellings commenced, completed, under construction and in the pipeline.

About this issue

This publication updates the preliminary estimates released in Construction Work Done, Australia. The data in this publication are based on a response rate of approximately 85% of the value of building work done during the quarter. This is lower than the average response rate due to difficulties collecting data as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data are subject to revision when returns from the following quarter are processed. Final data for the March 2023 quarter will be released in the next release of this publication, Building Activity, Australia on 18 October 2023.

Several time series spreadsheets contain 'np' (not available for publication) annotations from the September quarter 2012 onwards. This is due to confidential data being contained in these series.

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Changes this release

Revisions

Compared to the estimate published in Building Activity, Australia December 2022 released on 12 April 2023:

the total value of work done in Australia during the December 2022 quarter has been revised upwards by $175.2m or 0.5% (original, current price).
the total value of work commenced in Australia during the December 2022 quarter has been revised upwards $809.1m or 2.3% (original, current price). This was driven by an upwards revision to total non-residential commencements of $879.1m or 6.3%. Total residential commencements were revised downwards by $70m (-0.3%).
the number of dwelling unit commencements in the December 2022 quarter has been revised downwards by 443 dwellings or -1.0% (original).

For the March Building Activity release each year, the ABS publishes revisions that have been made to Building Activity data prior to the December quarter. In this release, revisions have been provided back to March quarter 2017. Refer to the methodology for more information about revisions.

Article archive

The following data cubes provide additional insights into Building Activity and are updated annually. Refer to the Data Downloads section of the relevant Building Activity release.

June quarter:

Building Activity Average Dwelling Commencement Times
Building Activity Average Dwelling Completion times
Building Activity Abandonment Rates for New Dwellings

December quarter:

Building Activity Average Cost
Building Activity Average Floor Area

Building a New Home: Construction Cost Changes, June quarter 2020

Small Area Dwelling Completions, June quarter 2020

Telling storeys - Apartment building heights, December quarter 2019

Characteristics of new residential dwellings - A 15 year summary, December quarter 2019

Abandonment rates for new dwellings, June quarter 2019

Average dwelling commencement times, June quarter 2019

Average dwelling completion times, June quarter 2019

Revisions to building activity statistics, December quarter 2015

Average floor area of new residential dwellings, June quarter 2013

A twenty year history of the cost of building a new house, December quarter 2008

Additional Building and Construction feature articles can be found in Feature Articles by Catalogue Number

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 8752.0.

Methodology

Building Activity, Australia methodology, March 2023

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Key statistics

Number of dwellings commenced

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Data downloads

Time series spreadsheets

TABLE 01. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 02. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 03. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 04. Value of Residential Building Work Done, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 05. Value of Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 06. Value of Building Work Commenced by Sector, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 07. Value of Residential Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 08. Value of Residential Building Work Commenced, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 09. Value of Building Work Done, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures

TABLE 10. Value of Building Work Done, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures: Original

TABLE 11. Value of Building Work Commenced, States and Territories - Chain Volume Measures: Original

TABLE 12. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Australia

TABLE 13. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, New South Wales

TABLE 14. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Victoria

TABLE 15. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Queensland

TABLE 16. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, South Australia

TABLE 17. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Western Australia

TABLE 18. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Tasmania

TABLE 19. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Northern Territory

TABLE 20. Value of Building Work Done by Sector, Australian Capital Territory

TABLE 21. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Australia

TABLE 22. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, New South Wales

TABLE 23. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Victoria

TABLE 24. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Queensland

TABLE 25. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, South Australia

TABLE 26. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Western Australia

TABLE 27. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Tasmania

TABLE 28. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Northern Territory

TABLE 29. Value of Residential Building Work Done by Sector, Australian Capital Territory

TABLE 30. Value of Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia

TABLE 31. Value of Residential Building Work Commenced by Sector, Australia

TABLE 32. Value of Total Building Work Done, States and Territories

TABLE 33. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements by Sector, Australia

TABLE 34. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements by Sector, States and Territories

TABLE 35. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements, States and Territories

TABLE 36. Number of Dwelling Unit Commencements by Sector, States and Territories: Original

TABLE 37. Number of Dwelling Unit Completions by Sector, Australia

TABLE 38. Number of Dwelling Unit Completions by Sector, States and Territories

TABLE 39. Number of Dwelling Unit Completions by Sector, States and Territories: Original

TABLE 40. Value of Building Work by Sector, Australia: Original

TABLE 41. Value of Building Work by Sector, New South Wales: Original

TABLE 42. Value of Building Work by Sector, Victoria: Original

TABLE 43. Value of Building Work by Sector, Queensland: Original

TABLE 44. Value of Building Work by Sector, South Australia: Original

TABLE 45. Value of Building Work by Sector, Western Australia: Original

TABLE 46. Value of Building Work by Sector, Tasmania: Original

TABLE 47. Value of Building Work by Sector, Northern Territory: Original

TABLE 48. Value of Building Work by Sector, Australian Capital Territory: Original

TABLE 49. Value of Building Work Under Construction, by Sector, States and Territories: Original

TABLE 50. Value of Building Work Yet to be Done, by Sector, States and Territories: Original

TABLE 51. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Australia: Original

TABLE 52. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, New South Wales: Original

TABLE 53. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Victoria: Original

TABLE 54. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Queensland: Original

TABLE 55. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, South Australia: Original

TABLE 56. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Western Australia: Original

TABLE 57. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Tasmania: Original

TABLE 58. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Northern Territory: Original

TABLE 59. Value of Non-residential Building Work Done, by Sector, Australian Capital Territory: Original

TABLE 60. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Australia: Original

TABLE 61. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, New South Wales: Original

TABLE 62. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Victoria: Original

TABLE 63. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Queensland: Original

TABLE 64. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, South Australia: Original

TABLE 65. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Western Australia: Original

TABLE 66. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Tasmania: Original

TABLE 67. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Northern Territory: Original

TABLE 68. Value of Non-residential Building Work Commenced, by Sector, Australian Capital Territory: Original

TABLE 69. Value of Non-residential Building Work Under Construction, by Sector, Australia: Original

TABLE 70. Value of Non-residential Building Work Under Construction, States and Territories: Original

TABLE 71. Value of Non-residential Building Work Completed, by Sector, Australia: Original

TABLE 72. Value of Non-residential Building Work Completed, States and Territories: Original