Youth crime dashboard
How New Zealand’s 10–19 crime picture actually looks
A public-interest view of police proceedings involving teenagers: volume, crime mix, ethnicity versus population share, and how many files stay unsolved. Figures are compiled from official releases. See Methodology for how ethnicity is recorded.
Compiled from NZ Police proceedings, Stats NZ population, and Ministry of Justice youth-court tables. Not official statistics. Unique ethnicity (Police) is not the same as total-response ethnicity (Census).
Youth proceedings, 2025
14,910
People aged 10–19 proceeded against by Police (compiled).
Share still uncleared
68%
Youth-related recorded crime remaining unsolved, latest year.
Māori vs population
2.5×
51.8% of youth proceedings · 20.4% of 10–19 population.
Change since 2016
-19%
Long decline through 2021, then a retail-crime rebound, then a modest fall.
Youth proceeded against
Unique young people, 10–19, New Zealand
Population share vs crime share
Latest year · Police unique ethnicity
Crime mix, 2025
Proceedings by offence group