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Home Hate Crime 2016 Tables Table 8

Table 8

Incidents

Victim Type

by Bias Motivation, 2016

Bias motivation Total
incidents
Victim type
Individual Business/
financial
institution
Government Religious
organization
Society/
public
1
Other/
unknown/
multiple
Total 6,121 4,779 391 220 146 63 522
Single-Bias Incidents 6,063 4,740 385 214 145 63 516
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry 3,489 2,906 211 131 21 37 183
Religion 1,273 641 144 66 118 14 290
Sexual Orientation 1,076 992 26 13 6 5 34
Disability 70 64 0 0 0 5 1
Gender 31 29 1 1 0 0 0
Gender Identity 124 108 3 3 0 2 8
Multiple-Bias Incidents2 58 39 6 6 1 0 6
  • 1 The victim type society/public is collected only in the National Incident-Based Reporting System. See Methodology.
  • 2 A multiple-bias incident is an incident in which one or more offense types are motivated by two or more biases.

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