Hate crime in the United States
Agencies reported 10,972 hate crime incidents to the FBI in 2025. The largest single bias was anti-Black or African American at 2,847. Those incidents carried 13,164 offenses between them, because one incident can carry several. Reporting is voluntary, and this counts what was reported.
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Incidents by the bias recorded against them · 2025
| Rank | Name | incidents | Share of incidents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anti-Black or African American | 2,847 | 25.9% |
| 2 | Anti-Jewish | 1,540 | 14.0% |
| 3 | Anti-Hispanic or Latino | 1,017 | 9.3% |
| 4 | Anti-White | 882 | 8.0% |
| 5 | Anti-Gay (Male) | 804 | 7.3% |
| 6 | Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) | 576 | 5.2% |
| 7 | Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry | 390 | 3.6% |
| 8 | Multiple Bias | 359 | 3.3% |
| 9 | Anti-Asian | 348 | 3.2% |
| 10 | Anti-Transgender | 345 | 3.1% |
| 11 | Anti-Islamic (Muslim) | 210 | 1.9% |
| 12 | Anti-Multiple Races, Group | 192 | 1.7% |
| 13 | Anti-Sikh | 170 | 1.5% |
| 14 | Anti-Gender Non-Conforming | 146 | 1.3% |
| 15 | Anti-Lesbian (Female) | 121 | 1.1% |
| 16 | Anti-Arab | 119 | 1.1% |
| 17 | Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native | 99 | 0.9% |
| 18 | Anti-Other Religion | 98 | 0.9% |
| 19 | Anti-Mental Disability | 86 | 0.8% |
| 20 | Anti-Female | 77 | 0.7% |
| 21 | Anti-Other Christian | 77 | 0.7% |
| 22 | Anti-Catholic | 73 | 0.7% |
| 23 | Anti-Physical Disability | 67 | 0.6% |
| 24 | Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other) | 59 | 0.5% |
| 25 | Anti-Protestant | 57 | 0.5% |
| 26 | Anti-Multiple Religions, Group | 45 | 0.4% |
| 27 | Anti-Hindu | 27 | 0.2% |
| 28 | Anti-Bisexual | 25 | 0.2% |
| 29 | Anti-Male | 21 | 0.2% |
| 30 | Anti-Buddhist | 20 | 0.2% |
| 31 | Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 19 | 0.2% |
| 32 | Anti-Church of Jesus Christ | 17 | 0.2% |
| 33 | Anti-Heterosexual | 16 | 0.1% |
| 34 | Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism | 14 | 0.1% |
| 35 | Anti-Jehovah's Witness | 9 | 0.1% |
What this data cannot show
- Reporting is voluntary. An agency that submitted nothing is indistinguishable here from one that had nothing to submit, so a zero is not an absence of hate crime and a rise is not necessarily a rise in incidents.
- These are counts, not rates. Dividing by population would present differences in reporting as differences in incidence, and the FBI publishes no participation share for this collection that would let us say by how much two states differ.
- An incident recorded with more than one bias is counted once, under "Multiple Bias", rather than under each. That is what lets the biases sum to the total.
- Incidents, offenses and locations count different things. The same incidents produced more offenses than incidents, because one incident can carry several.
- An incident is as the reporting agency classified it at the time. It is not a charge, a prosecution or a conviction.
- The series runs from 2010. Nationally it rose from 6,628 to 10,972 across that span, over a period in which the number of agencies submitting also changed. The two cannot be separated in this data.
- Offender ethnicity is the one field in this hub that records Hispanic or Latino origin — the arrest data has none at all — but it is unknown or not reported for 43.4% of incidents.
Related
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer — Hate Crime — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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