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title: NSW Department of Communities and Justice open data
resource: https://publicdata.au/nsw/department-of-communities-and-justice/
jurisdiction: New South Wales
catalogue_read: 2026-09-28
not_endorsed: true
---

# 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.

## On the portals

- [Average wait time for households in urgent need](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/average-wait-time-for-households-in-urgent-need) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Children in out-of-home care](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/children-in-out-of-home-care) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Children who receive early intervention support](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/children-who-receive-early-intervention-support) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Clients who are housed and then return to homelessness](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/clients-who-are-housed-and-then-return-to-homelessness) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Court finalisations](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/court-finalisations) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Number of social housing dwellings](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/number-of-social-housing-dwellings) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Recorded crime rates](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/recorded-crime-rates) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)
- [Reoffending rates](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/reoffending-rates) (XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2025-07-21)

Full list: https://publicdata.au/nsw/department-of-communities-and-justice/catalogue.json