The number of RVs built locally or imported is also a key indicator of the health of the industry. For 2025, that number of locally-built vans reached 23,963, a 4.9 per cent decrease on 2024, though still 12 per cent above the 2019 prepandemic levels. In that sense, the industry views these 2025 numbers as a‘ settling’ of the postcovid boom when local manufacturing reached in the order of 30,000-plus units per year.
RV registrations in 2025 increased four per cent on 2024, with 937,701 vans registered in Australia overall, and then there’ s the caravan parks. Economically, their performance improved by seven per cent, with total national revenue reaching $ 3.3 billion. New South Wales did particularly well, surpassing $ 1 billion in revenue for the first time.
Interestingly, 2025 showed a distinct preference for larger caravans. Overall, Australians preference towable units next to motorhomes – which has long been born out in the data – but who would’ ve thought that in a time of rising cost-of-living pressures that vans over 6m in length would reign supreme? Instinct tends to suggest the opposite – smaller, lighter vans are cheaper to buy( in general) and cheaper to tow( always). So what gives?
That’ s something the report doesn’ t go into, instead just providing the data, which showed that production of vans under 4m in length fell 27 per cent to just 305 units for the year. Vans from 4-5m in length also declined significantly, dropping 21 per cent to 2237 units.
But vans from 5-6m actually saw a one per cent increase on 2024 levels, as did vans over 6m. Both categories remain the dominant segment of the towable market.
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