Data dashboard
This data dashboard (Figure 1) shows the number of young people under youth justice supervision on an average day and during the year in Australia. It includes data for 2023–24 and each state and territory. Additionally, it presents the proportion of young people under youth justice supervision by Indigenous status, sex, age and over time.
Figure 1: Young people under youth justice supervision, 2023–24
See following for extended description.
This data dashboard shows that there were 4,227 young people under youth justice supervision on an average day in Australia in 2023–24. A bar chart shows the number of young people under youth justice supervision on an average day by state and territory with:
- 1,598 in Queensland
- 1,007 in New South Wales
- 599 in Western Australia
- 514 in Victoria
- 292 in South Australia
- 123 in Tasmania
- 93 in the Australian Capital Territory
- n.a. in Northern Territory as this data was unavailable for 2023–24.
Of young people aged 10 and over under youth justice supervision on an average day in Australia:
- 53% were First Nations
- 80% were male.
On an average day in Australia in 2023–24, there were:
- 162 young people aged 10–13 under youth justice supervision
- 3,102 young people aged 14–17 under youth justice supervision
- 963 young people aged 18 and over under youth justice supervision.
Under youth justice supervision in Australia* on an average day, the number of:
- young people decreased from 5,738 in 2014–15 to 4,557 in 2022–23
- non-Indigenous young people decreased from 3,071 in 2014–15 to 2,054 in 2022–23
- First Nations young people decreased from 2,562 in 2014–15 to 2,451 in 2022–23.
*To ensure a consistent timeseries, these trends do not include 2023–24 because Northern Territory average day data was not available this year.