Monthly personal insolvency statistics

Get the latest insights on personal insolvencies in Australia with AFSA's provisional monthly statistics, including statistics on bankruptcies, debt agreements and personal insolvency agreements.

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About the October 2025 statistics

AFSA's monthly statistics provide a snapshot of new personal insolvencies across Australia for October 2025. They help track short-term changes and identify emerging trends.

These statistics are provisional and may be revised as new information becomes available. They cover personal insolvencies only and do not include corporate insolvencies. All data is correct as at 31 October 2025.

Read our commentary in the media release: Personal insolvencies decreased in October 2025.

Personal insolvencies by state and territory

This map shows provisional monthly data on reported personal insolvencies across each Australian state and territory.

Note: 31 cases are classified as 'Other'. These are new personal insolvencies that report an address that is overseas, part of Australia's other territories, incompatible with Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) or is unable to be published.

Personal insolvencies by type

This chart shows the share of each personal insolvency type. It breaks total personal insolvencies into bankruptcies, debt agreements, personal insolvency agreements and deceased estates.

Business-related personal insolvencies

This chart shows the proportion of people entering different personal insolvency types who have reported involvement in a business within the last 2 to 5 years.

Personal insolvencies by employment industry

This table highlights notable industries where people entering personal insolvency are employed and shows how they changed from the same month in the previous year.

Download the data

Access detailed Australian personal insolvency data from 2019 onwards via our downloadable workbooks.

Monthly statistics time series

Available in 2 formats (XLSX and CSV), these workbooks include monthly records of personal insolvencies – including location, type of insolvency, and the industry they worked in (where it could be identified).

Temporary debt protections – Time series data

This workbook includes monthly records of temporary debt protections.