How many Australian dog trainers are in this dataset?

439, drawn from 569,128 scanned records and measured on 2026-10-03. That is a census of the dog trainers in this directory rather than of every dog trainer in Australia, and it skews toward businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all.

How many Australian dog trainers publish an ABN you can check?

12.5% — 55 of 439. The national rate across all trades is 21.5%, so dog trainers sit 42% below it. An ABN is free and public, so a missing one is usually a business that never put it on their website rather than a business without one.

How many dog trainers list a phone number that doesn't match their website?

2.8% of the 290 we compared, or about 8 businesses. This counts only cases where a listed number directly contradicts the number on the business's own site — not businesses with no phone number and not ones the comparison has not run for. It is often a stale listing, and sometimes a lead-reselling service sitting between you and the person who does the work.

How many Google reviews does the median Australian dog trainer have?

38, against a national median of 39 across all trades. Half have fewer. Review counts track how often people hire a trade rather than how well it performs, so comparing a dog trainer against a trade people call more often tells you very little.

Which state has the best-documented dog trainers?

Western Australia leads on published ABNs at 16.7%, against 11.5% in Queensland. Only states with at least 40 businesses are compared, because percentages taken over a handful of businesses move too far on a single record to mean anything.

Research

Australian dog trainers, by the numbers

We checked what 439 Australian dog trainers publish about themselves, and how much of it holds up against an independent source.

Measured 2026-10-03 · free to reuse with attribution

12.5%

publish a checkable ABN

of all 439. 42% below the national rate of 21.5%.

50.3%

phone number confirmed against their own site

of 290 compared. 15% below the national rate of 59.2%.

2.8%

phone number contradicting their own site

of 290 compared. 64% below the national rate of 7.7%.

81.1%

have a website that loads

of 322 fetched. In line with the 81% national rate.

Google reviews for the median business

The national median is 39. Review counts track how often people hire a trade, not how well they do it — a trade you call once a decade will always sit lower.

What stands out

Dog Trainers publish a checkable ABN at 12.5%, 42% below the 21.5% national rate — the easiest identity check a customer can run is unavailable for more of this trade than for most.

8 dog trainers — 2.8% of the 290 we compared — list a phone number that contradicts the one on their own website, 64% below the national 7.7%. That is better than the national picture, which is a reasonable sign the trade keeps its listings current.

The median has 38 Google reviews against 39 nationally. That gap says more about how often households need dog trainers than about the standard of the work, which is why the ranking on this site weights review volume on a log scale rather than treating a 5.0 from four reviews as equal to a 4.6 from three hundred.

Dog Trainers by state

States with at least 40 dog trainers in the directory. Smaller groups are held back rather than published as percentages that move too far on a single record.

Verification coverage for Australian dog trainers, by state
State	Businesses	ABN	Phones checked	Phone confirmed	Phone mismatch	Sites checked	Site loads	Median reviews
New South Wales	139	12.2%	97	52.6%	1%	103	85.4%	37
Victoria	128	11.7%	84	50%	2.4%	94	77.7%	43
Queensland	87	11.5%	56	44.6%	7.1%	63	81%	37
Western Australia	42	16.7%	29	—	—	32	84.4%	45

Method, and what it can't tell you

439 Australian dog trainers. Every one of them gets the same four checks: an ABN lookup against the national register, a comparison of the listed phone number against the number on the business's own website, an HTTP request to that website, and a match against open mapping data maintained separately from Google.

Not all four have run everywhere yet, so the figures above are shares of what has been checked: 290 phone comparisons, 322 website fetches and 351 cross-source matches out of 439 businesses. A check that has not run counts in neither half of a percentage.

This is a census of a directory, not of the trade. It covers businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all, which if anything biases these figures upward — a business too small to appear here is less likely to publish an ABN, not more.

ABN registration is the one figure taken over every business in the group rather than over a checked subset, because an absent ABN is not a failed lookup — read it as a floor. Review counts and averages are held; individual reviews are not, so nothing here can tell you whether a business's reviews arrived steadily or all at once.

Full method and national figures: the state of Australian trade business data.

Common questions

How many Australian dog trainers are in this dataset?: 439, drawn from 569,128 scanned records and measured on 2026-10-03. That is a census of the dog trainers in this directory rather than of every dog trainer in Australia, and it skews toward businesses with enough of a public footprint to be found at all.
How many Australian dog trainers publish an ABN you can check?: 12.5% — 55 of 439. The national rate across all trades is 21.5%, so dog trainers sit 42% below it. An ABN is free and public, so a missing one is usually a business that never put it on their website rather than a business without one.
How many dog trainers list a phone number that doesn't match their website?: 2.8% of the 290 we compared, or about 8 businesses. This counts only cases where a listed number directly contradicts the number on the business's own site — not businesses with no phone number and not ones the comparison has not run for. It is often a stale listing, and sometimes a lead-reselling service sitting between you and the person who does the work.
How many Google reviews does the median Australian dog trainer have?: 38, against a national median of 39 across all trades. Half have fewer. Review counts track how often people hire a trade rather than how well it performs, so comparing a dog trainer against a trade people call more often tells you very little.
Which state has the best-documented dog trainers?: Western Australia leads on published ABNs at 16.7%, against 11.5% in Queensland. Only states with at least 40 businesses are compared, because percentages taken over a handful of businesses move too far on a single record to mean anything.

Using these numbers

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WhoToHire, “Australian dog trainer data 2026”, 2026-10-03. https://whotohire.com.au/research/trades/dog-trainers

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