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Community sentences and orders snapshot

Quarterly statistics on sentences and orders being served in the community, and the offender population are shown below. We are making changes to this section to add more detailed reporting on ethnicities to the quarterly data we proactively publish in future.

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2025

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2025

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2025

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2025

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2024

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2024

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2024

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2024

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2023

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2023

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2023

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2023

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2022

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2022

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2022

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2022

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2021

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2021

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2021

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2021

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2020

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2020

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2020

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2020

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2019

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2019

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2019

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2019

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - December 2018

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - September 2018

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - June 2018

Community-based sentence and order facts and statistics - March 2018

Previous years' community statistics

Community sentences and orders throughput

Community sentence and order throughput data can be viewed, filtered and downloaded from the Statistics New Zealand website:

  1. Annual community sentence throughout:
    1. The number of community sentences started each year. If a person starts two sentences of the same type on the same day, they will only be counted as one.
      1. Community Detention
      2. Community Service
      3. Community Work
      4. Home Detention
      5. Intensive Supervision
      6. Period Detention
      7. Supervision
  2. Annual post-prison order throughput:
    1. The number of orders started each year:
      1. Extended Supervision
      2. Home Detention
      3. Parole
      4. Released on Conditions
      5. Post Detention Condition
      6. Returning Offender Order
  1. Annual completed community work offender population:
    1. The number of Community Work sentences successfully completed each year.

Data can be broken down by Lead offence, Gender, Ethnicity, Imposed length, Age group.