Prison and community-sentence population tables give breakdowns by age, sex, ethnicity, and offence; and duration of remand, sentence, or order.
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Annual remand prisoner population for the latest calendar years
Annual sentenced prisoner population for the latest calendar years
Annual community-sentence offender population for the latest calendar years
Annual post-prison offender population for the latest calendar years
Annual completed community work offender population for the latest calendar years
Definitions and metadata
Prison (sentence, remand and post-prison), community-sentence and completed community work offender population statistics: fiscal and calendar year - DataInfo+ gives the general methodology used to produce these statistics, and related metadata.
Prison and community-sentence population concepts - DataInfo+ gives definitions used in these statistics.
About these tables
The datasets come from administrative data on remand and sentenced prisoners in custody, and on community sentences and post-prison offender populations. This data is collected by the Department of Corrections.
We have applied random rounding to the figures in the tables to protect confidentiality.
More information
Corrections volumes report provides analysis and trends about the offender population.
Offence categories explains how an offender's most serious offence is determined in the criminal conviction and sentencing tables, and gives the ANZSOC divisions for classifying offences.
Australian and New Zealand standard offence classification (ANZSOC) 2011 describes classifications used for our crime and justice statistics.
Next release
Prison (sentence, remand, and post-prison), community-sentence, and completed community work offender population statistics: June 2024 fiscal year - NZ.Stat tables will be released November 2024.
