Statistics on Religious Hate Crimes

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 2016, 15,254 law enforcement agencies across the United States participating in the Hate Crimes Statistics program reported 6,121 hate crime incidents involving 7,321 offenses.

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 21.3% of incidents during 2016, involving 859 offenders and 1,584 victims.

A breakdown of the offenses showed that approximately 54% were anti-Jewish, 24% were anti-Islamic and 4.1% were anti-Catholic.

The following table tracks hate crimes by religious bias as reported by U.S. law enforcement agencies since 1996:

Year	Incidents			Victims
Year	Anti-Jewish	Anti-Islamic	Total	Anti-Jewish	Anti-Islamic
2016	684	307	1,273	862	388
2015	695	257	1,354	731	307
2014	609	154	1,014	648	184
2013	625	135	1,031	737	167
2012	674	130	1,099	836	155
2011	771	157	1,233	936	185
2010	887	160	1,322	1,040	197
2009	931	107	1,303	1,132	132
2008	1,013	105	1,519	1,145	130
2007	969	115	1,400	1,127	142
2006	967	156	1,462	1,144	208
2005	848	128	1,227	977	151
2004	954	156	1,374	1,076	201
2003	927	149	1,343	1,025	175
2002	931	155	1,426	1,084	174
2001	1,043	481	1,828	1,196	554
2000	1,109	28	1,472	1,269	36
1999	1,109	32	1,411	1,289	34
1998	1,081	21	1,390	1,235	23
1997	1,087	28	1,385	1,247	32
1996	1,109	27	1,401	1,209	33

* The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.

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Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation