FOI 0224-2025/26 Racial Hate Crimes
Request
Q1. The number of racist hate crimes and/or hate incidents reported, by month and year.
Q2. Where the victim(s) comprise of the Relevant Groups (see list below), broken down by each group.
And would like data for the following years, broken down by each month:
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (for this year, up until the FOI response date or whatever are the most recent statistics).
FORMAT: Please provide the data in an Excel spreadsheet.
If you can’t provide a list of hate crimes by month/ year with individual details, please structure the summarised data with the following column headings:
- Month
- Year
- Number of hate crimes
- Number of hate incidents
- Ethnicity/ethnic appearance
THE RELEVANT GROUPS: We are interested in the following ‘relevant’ ESEA groups. If, like Police Scotland, you can provide us with all your hate crime data for all ethnic groups, however, please do- it makes it easier to compare trends.
THE RELEVANT GROUPS:
- Chinese
- East Asian
- Southeast Asian
- "Oriental"
- Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Indonesia, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia and Timor-Leste
- Or any that had such appearance (set out above)
- Asian (less useful as we need the granularity)
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Q1 & 2. Please see the tables below showing the number of crimes recorded in the period 1 January 2020 to 12 June 2025 with a ‘Racial’ hate crime marker, broken down by calendar month.
|
Year |
Month |
|
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Total |
|
|
2020 |
31 |
44 |
36 |
24 |
28 |
53 |
39 |
52 |
61 |
26 |
54 |
64 |
512 |
|
2021 |
26 |
30 |
43 |
54 |
50 |
80 |
66 |
57 |
69 |
54 |
49 |
49 |
617 |
|
2022 |
33 |
40 |
71 |
47 |
56 |
61 |
69 |
57 |
41 |
51 |
44 |
37 |
607 |
|
2023 |
34 |
36 |
71 |
43 |
55 |
66 |
61 |
49 |
81 |
55 |
52 |
58 |
661 |
|
2024 |
47 |
52 |
67 |
51 |
50 |
62 |
70 |
84 |
46 |
58 |
44 |
42 |
673 |
|
2025 |
44 |
41 |
56 |
61 |
65 |
23 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
290 |
Q2. Please see the below table showing the above crimes, broken down by the victim’s self-defined ethnicity (where recorded).
|
Victim Self Defined Ethnicity |
Total |
|
Not Recorded |
353 |
|
A1. Asian Indian inc Asian British |
92 |
|
A1. Indian |
34 |
|
A2. Asian Pakistani inc Asian British |
67 |
|
A2. Pakistani |
51 |
|
A3. Asian Bangladeshi inc Asian British |
14 |
|
A3. Bangladeshi |
14 |
|
A4. Asian Chinese inc Asian British |
31 |
|
A4. Chinese |
31 |
|
A9. Any other Asian background |
121 |
|
B1. Black Caribbean inc Black British |
56 |
|
B1. Caribbean |
26 |
|
B2. African |
47 |
|
B2. Black African inc Black British |
72 |
|
B9. Any other Black background |
65 |
|
M1. Mixed White & Black Caribbean |
13 |
|
M1. White and Black Caribbean |
29 |
|
M2. Mixed White & Black African |
15 |
|
M2. White and Black African |
20 |
|
M3. Mixed White & Asian |
30 |
|
M3. White and Asian |
16 |
|
M9. Any other mixed |
86 |
|
NS. Not stated |
1019 |
|
O2. Arab |
15 |
|
O9. Any other |
80 |
|
W1. British |
190 |
|
W1. White British |
166 |
|
W2. Irish |
8 |
|
W2. White Irish |
6 |
|
W3. Gypsy or Irish Traveller |
1 |
|
W3. White Gypsy or Irish Traveller |
1 |
|
W9. Any other white background |
317 |
|
Total |
3039 |
North Yorkshire Police have noted your preference in receiving this information in excel format however, it is our responsibility to protect the personal data and other sensitive information which may be contained within our data sheets. As you may be aware excel data sheets may contain hidden information which may contain personal or sensitive information that, if exposed, could lead to a data breach. It is for this reason we have decided to provide you with the requested information in an alternative format.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.