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Hate crime in Pennsylvania

Anti-Black or African American ranks first with 62 incidents in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

Agencies in Pennsylvania reported 194 hate crime incidents to the FBI in 2025, the 20th most of any state. The largest single bias was anti-Black or African American at 62. 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 American62
2Anti-Jewish30
3Anti-Gay (Male)14
4Anti-White14
5Anti-Asian10
6Anti-Hispanic or Latino8
7Anti-Transgender7
8Anti-Islamic (Muslim)6
9Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry6
10Multiple Bias5
11Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)4
12Anti-Multiple Races, Group4
13Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native3
14Anti-Arab3
15Anti-Other Religion3
16Anti-Church of Jesus Christ2
17Anti-Gender Non-Conforming2
18Anti-Lesbian (Female)2
19Anti-Physical Disability2
20Anti-Catholic1
21Anti-Female1
22Anti-Hindu1
23Anti-Jehovah's Witness1
24Anti-Mental Disability1
25Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander1
26Anti-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.
  • Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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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