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NSW Department of Communities and Justice open data
Department of Communities and Justice lists 8 datasets on data.nsw.gov.au. 8 of them have an open licence and a file or API we can read.
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8 datasetsThese are the datasets Department of Communities and Justice lists on data.nsw.gov.au. A vote asks us to serialise one. Only the licence can stop us, so a dataset without an open licence cannot take a vote.
| Dataset | Formats | Licence | Updated | Votes |
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| Average wait time for households in urgent needHouseholds on the NSW Housing Register include both priority applicants waiting to be housed and existing tenants in social housing waiting urgently to be rehoused, as their current house does not meet their needs. Priority applicants are those who have an urgent and ongoing… | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 | |
| Children in out-of-home careNumber and rate (per 1,000 population) of children and young people in out-of-home care. Note: The number of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children is based on December quarter data for each calendar year, while the rate for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children is based on… | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 | |
| Children who receive early intervention supportNumber of children and young people who received Targeted Earlier Intervention, Family Connect and Support, and Family Preservation services. | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 | |
| Clients who are housed and then return to homelessnessThe number and proportion of specialist homelessness services customers who returned to homelessness after being housed within a 24-month period | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 | |
| Court finalisationsProportion of criminal cases finalised within 12 months in the District Court and proportion finalised within 6 months in the Local Court. | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 | |
| Number of social housing dwellingsNumber of social homes (dwellings), by social housing type. | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 | |
| Recorded crime ratesPolice recorded crime rate by offence type (domestic violence related assault, sexual assault, non-domestic assault, robbery, break and enter, motor vehicle theft). Note: The recorded crime rates are indexed to 2006 levels for incidents per 100,000 people for all categories… | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 | |
| Reoffending ratesAdults released from custody with a new personal, property or serious drug offence within a year (per cent); Young people with a Youth Justice Conference, supervision order or completing a custodial order with a new proven offence within a year (per cent). | XLSX | CC-BY | 2025-07-21 |
Listed from the portals' own catalogues, read 28 September 2026. Department of Communities and Justice has not endorsed this site. Every dataset here keeps its publisher's licence and attribution. catalogue.json has this list as data.