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Hate crime in Indiana

Anti-Black or African American ranks first with 48 incidents in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Agencies in Indiana reported 165 hate crime incidents to the FBI in 2025, the 21st most of any state. The largest single bias was anti-Black or African American at 48. 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 American48
2Anti-Hispanic or Latino22
3Anti-White17
4Anti-Gay (Male)12
5Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)11
6Anti-Gender Non-Conforming8
7Anti-Jewish6
8Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native5
9Anti-Catholic4
10Anti-Transgender4
11Anti-Islamic (Muslim)3
12Anti-Lesbian (Female)3
13Anti-Multiple Races, Group3
14Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry3
15Anti-Sikh3
16Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other)2
17Anti-Hindu2
18Anti-Other Religion2
19Anti-Arab1
20Anti-Asian1
21Anti-Female1
22Anti-Jehovah's Witness1
23Anti-Male1
24Anti-Physical Disability1
25Multiple Bias1

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.
  • Indiana 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 Indiana 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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