Reported anti-Sikh and anti-Hindu hate-crime offences increased in the United States in 2025 even as overall reported hate-crime incidents declined, according to FBI data. The data shows that reported offences motivated by anti-Sikh and anti-Hindu bias increased compared with 2024.
Even though hate crime incidents decreased in the US by 7 per cent in 2025, the data from the FBI showed a spike in anti-Sikh and anti-Hindu crime incidents when compared with 2024.
Law-enforcement agencies reported 2,703 single-bias religious hate-crime offences in 2025, according to the FBI data. Anti-Sikh bias accounted for 7 per cent of those offences, or about 189 offences, while anti-Hindu bias accounted for 1.2 per cent, or about 32 offences.
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.
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.
