Key findings
On an average night in the June quarter 2024:
- about 2 in 3 (65%) young people aged 10–17 in detention were First Nations, while First Nations people in this age group make up 6.6% of the general population
- of First Nations young people aged 10–17, 27 per 10,000 were in detention
- First Nations young people aged 10–17 were 27 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people aged 10–17 to be in detention.
On an average night over the 4-year period from June quarter 2020 to June quarter 2024:
- the rate and number of First Nations young people aged 10–17 in detention have been increasing since the September quarter 2020
- the rate and number of non-Indigenous young people aged 10–17 in detention have been decreasing since the June quarter 2020.