In 2024, hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 3,096 single-bias offences, which included 4.9 per cent of anti-Sikh bias, equivalent to about 152 offences. The anti-Hindu share accounted for 0.8 per cent, or about 25 cases. The FBI data underlined that though the overall religious bias in the US plunged, the anti-Sikh and anti-Hindu offences showed an escalation of 24.34 per cent and 28 per cent, respectively.

FBI data on race, ethnicity and ancestry

The data adds that law enforcement agencies reported 7,200 single-bias hate crime offences motivated by race/ethnicity/ancestry bias in 2025, out of which 5.8 per cent resulted from anti-Asian bias.

However, the FBI report doesn’t segregate Indian Americans as a separate racial or ethnic group. Notably, the Indian-origin victims could have been clubbed under specific religious bias categories depending on how the local enforcement agencies would have classified the offence.

Overall US hate crime incidents decline

Law enforcement agencies overall accounted for 10,606 hate crime incidents in 2025, which decreased from 11,404 in 2024, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) programme.

‘Real risk is… hate becomes invisible’

According to Sim J. Singh Attariwala, Director of the Anti-Hate Program at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, “The real risk is not simply that hate goes unaddressed, but that it becomes invisible. When the federal government dismantles hate-crime prevention initiatives, cuts grants, weakens civil rights enforcement, and erodes trust among immigrant communities, the impact is felt far beyond Washington, D.C.”

The FBI data does not capture every hate crime committed in the United States. Participation in the FBI’s hate-crime data collection is voluntary for state, local, tribal and college and university law-enforcement agencies. The FBI says agencies report a hate crime when an investigation produces objective facts showing that the offence was bias-motivated.