A breakdown of business and non-business personal insolvency statistics is published quarterly for bankrupts, debt agreement debtors and personal insolvency agreement debtors.
Download the data
This zip file contains the full set of business and non-business personal insolvency statistics we have published for the March quarter 2018. Associated commentary and charts are drawn exclusively from this data set. Individual links to all tables packaged in the file are provided on this page.
- Full data set:
Break in series – September quarter 2017
From the September quarter 2017, geographic coding of personal insolvency statistics follows a new method. This change is a break in series for our statistical publications.
There is also a minor change in the reporting date used for personal insolvency agreements from that quarter.
For further information, see the Guide to business and non-business personal insolvency statistics.
| State / territory | Number of bankrupts | Number of debt agreement debtors | Number of personal insolvency agreement debtors | Total debtors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSW | 241 | 75 | 6 | 322 |
| ACT | 9 | 6 | 0 | 15 |
| Vic | 185 | 47 | 0 | 232 |
| Qld | 332 | 72 | 6 | 410 |
| SA | 69 | 11 | 0 | 80 |
| NT | 14 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| WA | 163 | 35 | 3 | 201 |
| Tas | 13 | 5 | 0 | 18 |
| Other | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 1,031 | 252 | 15 | 1,298 |
| State / territory | Number of bankrupts | Number of debt agreement debtors | Number of personal insolvency agreement debtors | Total debtors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSW | 923 | 1,144 | 6 | 2,073 |
| ACT | 28 | 60 | 0 | 88 |
| Vic | 541 | 598 | 9 | 1,148 |
| Qld | 976 | 924 | 8 | 1,908 |
| SA | 211 | 194 | 2 | 407 |
| NT | 27 | 45 | 0 | 72 |
| WA | 411 | 437 | 0 | 848 |
| Tas | 110 | 67 | 0 | 177 |
| Other | 20 | 4 | 0 | 24 |
| Total | 3,247 | 3,473 | 25 | 6,745 |
Note 1: All the above figures refer to personal administrations under the Bankruptcy Act only (and not corporate insolvency).
Note 2: A business related bankruptcy is defined as being one in which an individual's bankruptcy is directly related to his or her proprietary interest in a business.
Note 3: State/territory "Other" includes records where no address is stated or where the stated address is not in the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).
Graph: Proportion of debtors with a business related personal insolvency in Australia*
* From the September quarter 2017, geographic coding of personal insolvency statistics follows a new method.
Commentary
Read more about debtors with a business related personal insolvency in the March quarter 2018: Commentary.
Reports
- Full report:
- Time series - in excel and csv formats
Note: We report the business and non-business personal insolvency statistics based on the number of debtors, not the number of administrations. We treat insolvency proceedings involving two or more partners as one administration. The business and non-business statistics will generally be higher than statistics based on administrations, the quarterly personal insolvency statistics.
Release schedule
We publish all statistics release dates in advance.
Further information
For further information about the statistics, see the Guide to business and non-business personal insolvency statistics.