Hate crime in California
Agencies in California reported 1,948 hate crime incidents to the FBI in 2025, the most of any state. The largest single bias was anti-Black or African American at 504. This is a count of what was reported, not a rate.
American Factbook Research
Incidents by the bias recorded against them · 2025
| Rank | Name | incidents | Share of the state’s incidents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anti-Black or African American | 504 | 25.9% |
| 2 | Anti-Jewish | 292 | 15.0% |
| 3 | Anti-Hispanic or Latino | 256 | 13.1% |
| 4 | Anti-Gay (Male) | 165 | 8.5% |
| 5 | Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) | 112 | 5.7% |
| 6 | Anti-Asian | 94 | 4.8% |
| 7 | Anti-Transgender | 90 | 4.6% |
| 8 | Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry | 84 | 4.3% |
| 9 | Multiple Bias | 84 | 4.3% |
| 10 | Anti-White | 61 | 3.1% |
| 11 | Anti-Islamic (Muslim) | 37 | 1.9% |
| 12 | Anti-Arab | 33 | 1.7% |
| 13 | Anti-Multiple Races, Group | 32 | 1.6% |
| 14 | Anti-Other Christian | 16 | 0.8% |
| 15 | Anti-Lesbian (Female) | 14 | 0.7% |
| 16 | Anti-Catholic | 12 | 0.6% |
| 17 | Anti-Sikh | 9 | 0.5% |
| 18 | Anti-Gender Non-Conforming | 8 | 0.4% |
| 19 | Anti-Other Religion | 7 | 0.4% |
| 20 | Anti-Hindu | 6 | 0.3% |
| 21 | Anti-Multiple Religions, Group | 5 | 0.3% |
| 22 | Anti-Protestant | 5 | 0.3% |
| 23 | Anti-Bisexual | 4 | 0.2% |
| 24 | Anti-Female | 4 | 0.2% |
| 25 | Anti-Mental Disability | 4 | 0.2% |
| 26 | Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other) | 3 | 0.2% |
| 27 | Anti-Jehovah's Witness | 3 | 0.2% |
| 28 | Anti-Physical Disability | 2 | 0.1% |
| 29 | Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 0.1% |
| 30 | Anti-Church of Jesus Christ | 1 | 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.
- California is ranked against other states on the count alone. A state where most agencies participate and one where few do are not comparable, and the FBI publishes nothing that would let us say by how much they differ.
- Biases against which California recorded no incident are not listed. That is an absence in the reporting, which is not the same as an absence of hate crime.
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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