Prison statistics

Remand and sentenced snapshot

Quarterly prison statistics for each prison and breakdowns of the prison population are shown below.

Prison statistics - September 2026

Prison statistics - June 2026

Prison facts and statistics - March 2026

Prison facts and statistics - December 2025

Prison facts and statistics - September 2025

Prison facts and statistics - June 2025

Prison facts and statistics - March 2025

Prison facts and statistics - December 2024

Prison facts and statistics - September 2024

Prison facts and statistics - June 2024

Prison facts and statistics - March 2024

Prison facts and statistics - December 2023

Prison facts and statistics - September 2023

Prison facts and statistics - June 2023

Prison facts and statistics - March 2023

Prison facts and statistics - December 2022

Prison facts and statistics - September 2022

Prison facts and statistics - June 2022

Prison facts and statistics - March 2022

Prison facts and statistics - December 2021

Prison facts and statistics - September 2021

Prison facts and statistics - June 2021

Prison facts and statistics - March 2021

Prison facts and statistics - December 2020

Prison facts and statistics - September 2020

Prison facts and statistics - June 2020

Prison facts and statistics - March 2020

Prison facts and statistics - December 2019

Prison facts and statistics - September 2019

Prison facts and statistics - June 2019

Prison facts and statistics - March 2019

Prison facts and statistics - December 2018

Prison facts and statistics - September 2018

Prison facts and statistics - June 2018

Prison facts and statistics - March 2018

Previous years' prison statistics

Remand and sentenced throughput

Prison remand and sentenced throughput data can be viewed, filtered and downloaded from the Statistics New Zealand website:

  1. Annual sentenced prison throughput:
    1. The number of prison sentences started each year.
  2. Annual remand prison throughput:
    1. The number of remand periods ending each year.

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