A quarter of all offenders on probation reoffended within a year, while half had reoffended within three years, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
A third of men aged under 25, while a quarter of all women, committed further crime while on probation.
The figures relate to offenders who received probation in 2021 and represent an overall three percentage point reduction in the reoffending rate from 27% in 2020 to 24% in 2021.
A third of all public order (36%) and theft offenders (32%) had reoffended within a year while one in five of those convicted of a drugs offence (21%) had committed a further crime while on probation.
Half of those on probation for dangerous and negligent acts, 9% of those on public order offences and 7% of burglars and those on related offences reoffended within a year.
The highest level of reoffenders were from Cork and Kerry, with a 28% recidivism rate.
Dublin has a rate of 24%, but the highest number of reoffenders with 1,387 of 4,198 probationers in the capital re-offended within a year.
The highest number of probation orders issued in Dublin in 2021 were to people who committed drugs offences (831 of 4,198).
Just over one-fifth (21%) of those convicted of drugs offences committed another offence within a year of receiving their probation.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of the reoffending was by three types of offenders, public order (30%), drugs (18%), and Theft (16%).
In the longer term, of those who received a probation order in 2019, almost half (49%) had committed at least one offence within three years for which they received a conviction.
The CSO said the year-on-year slight decrease in reoffending by those on probation, was mostly due to the fall in reoffending of people who received probation for road traffic offences, which fell 32%.
