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Summary of Hate Crime Statistics, 2006

The following table shows hate crime statistics in the United States, including the number of incidents, offenses, victims, and known offenders, according to race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and ethnic origin during 2006.

	Number of incidents	Number of offenses	Number of victims	Number of known offenders
Race	4,000	4,737	5,020	3,957
Anti-white	890	1,008	1,054	1,074
Anti-black	2,640	3,136	3,332	2,437
Anti-American Indian/Alaska Native	60	72	75	72
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander	181	230	239	181
Anti-multi-racial group	229	291	320	193
Religion	1,462	1,597	1,750	705
Anti-Jewish	967	1,027	1,144	362
Anti-Catholic	76	81	86	44
Anti-Protestant	56	62	65	35
Anti-Islamic	156	191	208	147
Anti-other religious group	124	140	147	63
Anti-multi-religious group	73	88	92	49
Anti-atheism/agnosticism/etc.	7	8	8	5
Sexual orientation	1,195	1,415	1,472	1,380
Anti-male homosexual	747	881	913	914
Anti-female homosexual	163	192	202	154
Anti-homosexual	238	293	307	268
Anti-heterosexual	26	28	29	26
Anti-bisexual	21	21	21	18
Ethnicity/national origin	984	1,233	1,305	1,209
Anti-Hispanic	576	770	819	802
Anti-other ethnicity/national origin	408	463	486	407
Disability	79	94	95	73
Anti-physical	17	20	21	17
Anti-mental	62	74	74	56
Multiple-bias incidents¹	2	4	10	6
Total	7,722	9,080	9,652	7,330