Statistics on Religious Hate Crimes
(Updated November 2016)
The following data about anti-Jewish and religiously-biased hate crimes in the United States has been exceprted from the annual Report on Hate Crimes released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
To read the full Hate Crime Reports, archived to 1996, click here.
In 2015, 14,997 law enforcement agencies across the United States reported 5,850 hate crime incidents. Analysis of the data revealed that 23% of the victims of these hate crimes were targetted because of their religious affiliation.
Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,354 incidents during 2015, involving 1,402 victims and 809 perpetrators.
A breakdown of the offenses showed that approximately 51.3% were anti-Jewish, 22.2% were anti-Islamic and 4.4% were anti-Catholic. More than half of the offenses against Jews (447 out of 695 total) involved vandalism, or damage/destruction of property.
The following table tracks hate crimes by religious bias as reported by U.S. law enforcement agencies since 1996:
|
Incidents |
Victims |
Anti-Jewish |
Anti-Islamic |
Total |
Anti-Jewish |
Anti-Islamic |
Total |
2015 |
695 |
257 |
1,354 |
731 |
307 |
1,402 |
2014 |
609 |
154 |
1,014 |
648 |
184 |
1,140 |
2013 |
625 |
135 |
1,031 |
737 |
167 |
1,223 |
2012 |
674 |
130 |
1,099 |
836 |
155 |
1,340 |
2011 |
771 |
157 |
1,233 |
936 |
185 |
1,480 |
2010 |
887 |
160 |
1,322 |
1,040 |
197 |
1,552 |
2009 |
931 |
107 |
1,303 |
1,132 |
132 |
1,575 |
2008 |
1,013 |
105 |
1,519 |
1,145 |
130 |
1,732 |
2007 |
969 |
115 |
1,400 |
1,127 |
142 |
1,628 |
2006 |
967 |
156 |
1,462 |
1,144 |
208 |
1,750 |
2005 |
848 |
128 |
1,227 |
977 |
151 |
1,405 |
2004 |
954 |
156 |
1,374 |
1,076 |
201 |
1,586 |
2003 |
927 |
149 |
1,343 |
1,025 |
175 |
1,489 |
2002 |
931 |
155 |
1,426 |
1,084 |
174 |
1,659 |
2001 |
1,043 |
481 |
1,828 |
1,196 |
554 |
2,118 |
2000 |
1,109 |
28 |
1,472 |
1,269 |
36 |
1,699 |
1999 |
1,109 |
32 |
1,411 |
1,289 |
34 |
1,686 |
1998 |
1,081 |
21 |
1,390 |
1,235 |
23 |
1,720 |
1997 |
1,087 |
28 |
1,385 |
1,247 |
32 |
1,586 |
1996 |
1,109 |
27 |
1,401 |
1,209 |
33 |
1,535 |
* The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
Full Hate Crime Reports
Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation
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