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 2024–25 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.
Dashboard 1: Young people under youth justice supervision, 2024–25
This data dashboard shows that there were 4,147 young people under youth justice supervision on an average day in Australia in 2024–25. A bar chart shows the number of young people under youth justice supervision on an average day by state and territory with:
- 1,557 in Queensland
- 1,035 in New South Wales
- 516 in Western Australia
- 545 in Victoria
- 243 in South Australia
- 163 in Tasmania
- 89 in the Australian Capital Territory
- n.a. in Northern Territory as this data was unavailable for 2024–25.
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 2024–25, there were:
- 142 young people aged 10–13 under youth justice supervision
- 3,035 young people aged 14–17 under youth justice supervision
- 970 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 5,362 in 2015–16 to 4,147 in 2024–25
- non-Indigenous young people decreased from 2,871 in 2015–16 to 1,927 in 2024–25
- First Nations young people decreased from 2,426 in 2015–16 to 2,183 in 2024–25.