First Nations young people in detention
About 3 in 5 (453, or 62%) of the young people aged 10–17 in detention on an average day in 2024–25 were First Nations young people (Table S74a).
In 2024-25, the rate of First Nations young people aged 10–17 in detention on an average day was 26 per 10,000. The rate of non-Indigenous young people aged 10–17 in detention on an average day was 1.1 per 10,000 (Table S75a).
This means that First Nations young people aged 10–17 were about 23 times as likely as their non-Indigenous counterparts to be in detention on an average day (Table S75a).
The level of First Nations over-representation (as measured by the rate ratio – see Appendix A) was higher for those in detention than for those under community-based supervision (about 19 times as likely) (Tables 3.1 and S37a).