Round 2 key statistics

Round 2 of the EMDG program:

• opened on 6 July 2022
• closed on 17 August 2022.

There were 2,758 applications submitted. Average annual business turnover of applicants is $1.9m.

Figures below reflect the breakdown of applications at the time Round 2 closed.

Applications by tier breakdown

• 809 in Tier 1 (29.3%)
• 852 in Tier 2 (30.9%)
• 1,055 in Tier 3 (38.3%)
• 42 in Representative body (1.5%)

Average planned expenditure per year, by tier

• $60,232 in Tier 1
• $99,567 in Tier 2
• $201,450 in Tier 3
• $155,744 in Representative body

Applicants by type

• 1,728 (62.7%) of total applications were lodged by grant agents and 1,030 (37.3%) were self-lodged by applicants.
• 815 (41.0%) self-lodged applications were submitted by new applicants to EMDG.
• 25 applications were submitted by businesses indicating that they are Indigenous owned or controlled.
• Agent or self-lodged applications by businesses indicating that they are Indigenous owned or controlled:
  • 22 of these were new applicants to EMDG
  • 20 were self-lodged.

Applications by product category

Applications by state and territory

• 36 in the Australian Capital Territory (1.3%)
• 961 in New South Wales (34.8%)
• 8 in the Northern Territory (0.3%)
• 472 in Queensland (17.1%)
• 196 in South Australia (7.1%)
• 31 in Tasmania (1.1%)
• 820 in Victoria (29.7%)
• 234 in Western Australia (8.5%)

Agents' applications

191 agents submitted applications, 25 of which were agents new to EMDG. Of the 191 agents:

• 51 agents submitted one application (26.7%)
• 92 agents submitted between 2 to 9 applications (48.2%)
• 26 agents submitted between 10 to 19 applications (13.6%)
• 16 agents submitted 20 to 49 applications (8.4%)
• 6 agents submitted 50 or more applications (3.1%).

Top 10 markets

The figures for target markets indicated by EMDG Round 2 grantees are below. They include executed grant agreements only.

The percentages don’t add to 100%. This is because a grantee can target multiple markets.

Grant agreements

Out of the 2,760 submitted applications, 2,542 grant agreements were executed. This represents a 92% success rate. Figures are as at 31 December 2023.

The breakdown of agreements by tier is shown below: