Statistics provided by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) show that 537 out of 5,308 young offenders did not have suitable accommodation on leaving custody in 2008/09.
This works out as 10.1 per cent of young offenders released into the community that year.
Meanwhile, the latest available figures for National Indicator 46, which measures suitable accommodation for young offenders supervised in the community in combination with those exiting custody, stood at 96.4 per cent for 2009/10. In 2008/09 it was 95.4 per cent.
Sue Thomas, senior policy officer at crime reduction charity Nacro's Welsh youth offending unit, said definitions of "suitable accommodation" can vary from area to area and the measure only records a snapshot in time rather than changes in circumstances in the long term.
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