The average number of young Canberrans in youth detention each night has risen over the three years to June 2018.

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the majority of young people in detention on an average night in Canberra for the quarter ending June 2018 were male, unsentenced and non-Indigenous.

The average number of young people in detention each night rose from about nine in the 2014-15 financial year to about 15 in the 2017-18 financial year.

The number of non-Indigenous young people in detention on any given night in the last financial year was almost double that of three years earlier, with an average of about 11 per night up from six per night in 2014-15.

The number of unsentenced young Canberrans in youth detention each night increased the most, from about five per night in 2014-15 up to about nine per night in 2017-18.