Archive · 19 Aug 2026
FBI Reports Anti-Sikh, Anti-Hindu Hate Offences Amid Overall Decline
The FBI collected information about hate crimes reported across the United States in 2025.
Police agencies reported 10,881 incidents involving 13,026 offences.
These offences affected 13,438 victims, and 9,509 known offenders were recorded.
About 189 offences were linked to anti-Sikh bias and about 32 to anti-Hindu bias.
The report counted approximately 193 anti-Sikh victims and 34 anti-Hindu victims.
One incident can involve more than one offence or victim.
Indian Americans were not listed as a separate group in the national report.
Reported hate-crime incidents were lower in 2025 than in 2024.
The published summary does not provide separate 2024 anti-Sikh or anti-Hindu figures, so increases for those groups cannot be confirmed from it.
US agencies recorded approximately 189 anti-Sikh and 32 anti-Hindu hate-crime offences in 2025.
The FBI counted 10,881 incidents involving 13,026 offences, 13,438 victims and 9,509 known offenders.
Anti-Jewish bias represented the largest share of single-bias religious offences, at 62.3 per cent.
The report does not separately identify Indian Americans, whose cases may appear under several bias categories.
Reported incidents declined from 11,679 in 2024 to 10,881 in 2025, while a comparable-agency dataset showed a 7 per cent fall.
- Who
- US law enforcement agencies reported data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, covering victims and offenders associated with reported hate crimes.
- What
- The FBI released 2025 hate-crime statistics, including approximately 189 anti-Sikh and 32 anti-Hindu offences.
- When
- The figures cover 2025 and include comparisons with 2024.
- Where
- Across the United States.
- Why
- The report documents hate crimes by reported bias categories, but does not separately identify Indian Americans.
Reported Increase
Data Limitation
Whether anti-Sikh and anti-Hindu bias rose
Reported Increase
One report describes the approximately 189 anti-Sikh and 32 anti-Hindu offences as increases compared with 2024.
Data Limitation
The published national summary does not provide separate 2024 figures for anti-Sikh or anti-Hindu offences, so the increase cannot be independently established from those figures.
Overall decline measurement
Reported Increase
The full FBI dataset records a decline in incidents from 11,679 in 2024 to 10,881 in 2025, or about 6.8 per cent.
Data Limitation
A separate dataset limited to agencies providing at least six comparable months records a 7 per cent decline, from 11,404 to 10,606; the two comparisons use different agency sets.
- Total incidents
- 10,881 hate-crime incidents were reported in 2025.
- Total offences
- The incidents involved 13,026 offences.
- Victims and offenders
- There were 13,438 victims and 9,509 known offenders.
- Religious offences
- There were 2,703 single-bias religious hate-crime offences.
- Anti-Sikh and anti-Hindu offences
- Anti-Sikh bias accounted for approximately 189 offences, while anti-Hindu bias accounted for approximately 32.
- Victim counts
- Approximately 193 victims were targeted by anti-Sikh bias and 34 by anti-Hindu bias.
- Reporting coverage
- Information came from 16,791 law-enforcement agencies covering 95.3 per cent of the US population.
- Year-to-year change
- The full dataset showed incidents falling from 11,679 in 2024 to 10,881 in 2025; a comparable-agency dataset showed a decline from 11,404 to 10,606.
