Rates of youth detention
This figure shows that there were 2.6 per 10,000 young people aged 10–17 in Australia that were in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2020. The Northern Territory had the highest rate of young people in detention on an average night, while South Australia had the lowest (7.9 compared with 1.8 young people). The trend figure shows that since the Northern Territory has the highest rate of young people aged 10–17 in detention on an average night, but that this has been steadily decreasing since the September quarter 2018 where the rate was 15.8 per 10,000.
