Canberra trumps other cities to become Australia’s online microbusiness capital

Canberra is Australia’s online microbusiness capital according to recent data by domain registrar and hosting provider GoDaddy, with the city beating out some of Australia’s largest cities, including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, to nab the top spot.

Australia’s capital city even towered over the figures coming in from the cities of London and Westminster in the United Kingdom.

Venture Forward, an international research initiative launched by GoDaddy in 2018 to examine and analyse the performance of more than a million global online microbusinesses in their local economies and communities, combed through data from more than 300,000 Australian online microbusinesses and gave every Level 3 Statistical Area in Australia a microbusiness density score.

According to the data, Canberra leads the way when it comes to microbusiness density, with approximately 32 online microbusinesses per 100 residents as of December 2023, rounding up from the 31.9