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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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
Prison statistics from the Department of Corrections provides quarterly prison statistics for each prison and breakdowns of the prison population.
Community sentences and orders statistics from the Department of Corrections provides quarterly statistics on sentences and orders being served in the community, and the offender population.
Australian and New Zealand standard offence classification (ANZSOC) 2011 describes classifications used for our Prison (sentence, remand, and post-prison), community-sentence, and completed community work offender population statistics releases.
Next release
Prison (sentence, remand, and post-prison), community-sentence, and completed community work offender population statistics: 2026 calendar year is scheduled for release in April 2027.
