Summary of Hate Crime Statistics, 2006
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff

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 |
1. A multiple-bias incident is a hate crime in which two or more offense types were committed as a result of two or more bias motivations.
Source: Crime in the United States, 2007, FBI, Uniform Crime Reports.
Number of School-Associated Violent Deaths Occurring At and Away from School, 1992–2006 | Crime Data | A Time Line of Recent Worldwide School Shootings |