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Hate crime in Missouri

Anti-Black or African American ranks first with 64 incidents in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Agencies in Missouri reported 216 hate crime incidents to the FBI in 2025, the 17th most of any state. The largest single bias was anti-Black or African American at 64. 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 American64
2Anti-White24
3Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)20
4Anti-Jewish15
5Anti-Hispanic or Latino13
6Anti-Gay (Male)9
7Anti-Transgender8
8Anti-Sikh7
9Anti-Multiple Races, Group5
10Anti-Physical Disability5
11Multiple Bias5
12Anti-Arab4
13Anti-Islamic (Muslim)4
14Anti-Lesbian (Female)4
15Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry4
16Anti-Other Religion4
17Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native3
18Anti-Asian3
19Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other)2
20Anti-Mental Disability2
21Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander2
22Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism1
23Anti-Female1
24Anti-Heterosexual1
25Anti-Hindu1
26Anti-Jehovah's Witness1
27Anti-Male1
28Anti-Multiple Religions, Group1
29Anti-Other Christian1
30Anti-Protestant1

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.
  • Missouri 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 Missouri 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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