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Hate crime in Georgia

Anti-Black or African American ranks first with 31 incidents in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Agencies in Georgia reported 131 hate crime incidents to the FBI in 2025, the 24th most of any state. The largest single bias was anti-Black or African American at 31. This is a count of what was reported, not a rate.

Incidents by the bias recorded against them · 2025

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Incidents by the bias recorded against them, 2025
RankNameincidents
1Anti-Black or African American31
2Anti-Gay (Male)15
3Anti-Hispanic or Latino12
4Anti-White12
5Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)11
6Anti-Sikh8
7Anti-Asian5
8Anti-Multiple Races, Group5
9Anti-Transgender5
10Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry4
11Anti-Church of Jesus Christ3
12Multiple Bias3
13Anti-Female2
14Anti-Heterosexual2
15Anti-Jewish2
16Anti-Mental Disability2
17Anti-Bisexual1
18Anti-Catholic1
19Anti-Gender Non-Conforming1
20Anti-Hindu1
21Anti-Islamic (Muslim)1
22Anti-Lesbian (Female)1
23Anti-Multiple Religions, Group1
24Anti-Other Christian1
25Anti-Other Religion1

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.
  • Georgia 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 Georgia recorded no incident are not listed. That is an absence in the reporting, which is not the same as an absence of hate crime.

Sources

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer — Hate Crime by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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