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SA Gaming Machine Statistics

Statewide trends

Revenue, tax and machines across sixteen years

Every month CBS reports how much players lost on gaming machines in South Australian hotels and clubs, how much of that went to the state as gaming tax, and how many machines and venues were operating. This page puts the monthly releases on one timeline.

FY 2024/25 at a glance

Net gambling revenue, FY 2024/25

$1,008.5m

+5.5% on the year before

Gaming tax

$453.7m

45.0% of NGR

Machines, June 2025

11,735

12,744 in June 2010

NGR per machine

$85,858

$57,305 in FY 2009/10

Net gambling revenue, by financial year

Net gambling revenue is what players lost on gaming machines in hotels and clubs: money wagered minus prizes paid out.
Measure
Period
Dollars
  • Net gambling revenue
  • FY 2014/15 total from the LGA release

Source: CBS Gaming Statistics (Statewide), transcribed in the original workbook. Shaded: FY 2014/15 (no statewide release archived) and the COVID-19 venue closures of 2020.

FY 2014/15 is missing from the statewide series

The archive has no CBS statewide release for FY 2014/15, so there are no monthly figures for that year. The hollow marker on the annual NGR chart is the year’s total from the separate LGA release ($725.91m). In every year where both exist, the LGA total matches the statewide total to within monthly rounding (see the reconciliation).

COVID-19 closures in FY 2019/20

Gaming rooms closed in late March 2020. CBS reported zero machines for March to June 2020 and almost no NGR for April to June, so FY 2019/20 NGR ($511.5m) and the year’s mean machine count are not comparable with other years. NGR per machine is left blank for the year: March and June still carry NGR against zero machines.

What the figures cover

The statewide releases cover hotels and clubs. CBS notes that the machine counts exclude the Adelaide Casino, and that the venue count includes every venue that operated at any time during the month.

Real terms

Switch to real dollars to remove inflation. FY 2009/10 NGR of $729.4m is about $1,090.7m in FY 2024/25 dollars. Each month is deflated by its quarter’s Adelaide CPI (ABS Consumer Price Index, Australia (CPI 1.1.0)).

Table

Annual figures

Revenue and tax are the sum of twelve monthly figures. Machines and venues are counts at a point in time, so a year is summarised by their monthly mean and by the June figure, never by adding months together.

Financial yearNGRChangeGaming taxTax / NGRVenue shareMachines (mean)Machines (June)Venues (mean)NGR per machine
FY 2009/10$729.35m–$282.66m38.8%$446.70m12,72712,744563$57,305
FY 2010/11$745.47m+2.2%$291.58m39.1%$453.88m12,75112,726563$58,463
FY 2011/12$742.79m−0.4%$290.96m39.2%$451.83m12,71412,688560$58,425
FY 2012/13$730.58m−1.6%$285.94m39.1%$444.68m12,61412,613553$57,919
FY 2013/14$731.01m+0.1%$288.24m39.4%$442.76m12,57212,561545$58,144
FY 2014/15No statewide release archived. Total NGR from the LGA release: $725.91m.
FY 2015/16$718.61m–$283.83m39.5%$434.80m12,35112,337530$58,181
FY 2016/17$680.29m−5.3%$264.87m38.9%$415.41m12,27412,210521$55,424
FY 2017/18$682.24m+0.3%$267.58m39.2%$414.67m12,19112,142510$55,962
FY 2018/19$681.64m−0.1%$268.92m39.5%$412.73m12,13312,130503$56,179
FY 2019/20COVID-19$511.48m−25.0%$200.26m39.2%$311.21m8,0510497–
FY 2020/21$769.87m+50.5%$320.45m41.6%$449.43m11,46111,698491$67,171
FY 2021/22$831.13m+8.0%$356.21m42.9%$474.89m11,68111,618486$71,150
FY 2022/23$917.52m+10.4%$404.57m44.1%$512.97m11,67511,691481$78,591
FY 2023/24$955.79m+4.2%$424.87m44.5%$530.92m11,70411,706471$81,664
FY 2024/25$1,008.46m+5.5%$453.73m45.0%$554.74m11,74611,735468$85,858

Download these figures from Downloads. Change is against the previous financial year and is left blank after the missing year. NGR per machine is left blank for FY 2019/20, when CBS reported zero machines for March to June 2020.