
FBI Releases 2021 Hate Crime Statistics
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program serves as the national repository for crime data voluntarily collected and submitted by law enforcement. Its primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management. The 2021 hate crimes data*, submitted by 11,834 law enforcement agencies, provide information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes. Of these agencies who submitted incident reports, there were 7,262 hate crime incidents involving 8,673 offenses.
*This is the first year the annual hate crimes statistics are reported entirely through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). As a result of the shift to NIBRS-only data collection, law enforcement agency participation in submitting all crime statistics, including hate crimes, fell significantly from 2020 to 2021. Law enforcement agencies that did not transition to reporting crime data through NIBRS were not able to submit hate crime statistics to the FBI. Several of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies, as well as some states, did not make the transition to NIBRS in time to submit data prior to the reporting deadline, and are not included in the 2021 reported totals. As more agencies transition to the NIBRS data collection with continued support from the Justice Department, hate crime statistics in coming years will provide a richer and more complete picture of hate crimes nationwide.
Victims of Hate Crime Incidents
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Bias Motivation Categories for Victims of Single-bias Incidents in 2021 ![]() |
Single-bias Incident Bias Motivations by Category in 2021

Offenses by Crime Category |
Known Offenders |
Location Type |
Among the 8,673 hate crime offenses reported:
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Of the 6,312 known offenders:
Other races accounted for the remaining known offenders. Of the 4,884 known offenders for whom ethnicity was reported:
Of the 5,757 known offenders for whom ages were known:
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Law enforcement agencies may specify the location of an offense within a hate crime incident as 1 of 46 location designations.
The remaining 26.1% of hate crime incidents took place at other or multiple locations. |
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Visit the 2020 and 2019 Hate Crime Statistics pages to view FBI hate crimes data for 2020 and 2019.
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Bias Motivation Categories for Victims of Single-bias Incidents in 2021: This is a pie chart showing the percentage of bias motivation categories for victims of single-bias incidents in 2020. They are as follows:
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry | 64.8% |
Religion | 13.3% |
Sexual Orientation | 15.6% |
Gender Identity | 3.6% |
Disability | 1.7% |
Gender | 1.0% |
Single-bias Incident Bias Motivations by Category: This is a bar chart showing the 2021 data for bias motivation categories for single bias incidents. They are as follows:
Bias Motivation Categories | 2021 |
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry | 4,470 |
Religion | 1,005 |
Sexual Orientation | 1,127 |
Gender Identity | 266 |
Disability | 134 |
Gender | 72 |
Total | 7,074 |