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Tracking recent hate crime rates

Reported hate crimes rose by 7% from 2021 to 2022, reflecting changes in societal biases and prejudices. USAFacts has data on how factors motivating these crimes have shifted to provide a better understanding of who is being targeted.  

• Crimes motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry decreased by 1% from 2021 to 2022, but they still constituted 56% of all reported hate crimes.

• Overall, racially motivated crimes decreased. However, anti-Black or African American hate crimes rose by 4% to number 3,434 out of 6,570 reported race/ethnicity/ancestry cases. Meanwhile, the reported number of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans dropped from 753 in 2021 to 499 in 2022.

  
  

• Anti-transgender hate crimes increased by 35%, making up 338 of the 469 reported gender identity hate crimes. Gender identity crimes had the highest year-over-year increase across all categories.

• Religiously motivated hate crimes were up 27%, the second-largest year-over-year increase in all categories. Antisemitic hate crimes rose 36%. Of the 2,044 reported hate crimes based on religion, 1,124 were anti-Jewish.

  
  

• In 2022, white Americans accounted for 51.0% of known hate crime offenders, while comprising 60.9% of the US population. Black or African American people, making up 12.2% of the US, constituted 21% of hate crime offenders. Asian Americans, 5.9% of the US, were 2.0% of the offenders.

Learn much more, including where most hate crimes were committed and for what type of offense, in this article.

Who has long COVID?

The Census Bureau estimated that 25.6% of US adults who’ve contracted COVID-19 experienced long COVID at some point. Long COVID remains a persistent challenge in the aftermath of the pandemic, with adults in some states more afflicted than others.

• As of late October 2023, 5.3% of adults nationwide were experiencing long COVID.

• Tennessee, Mississippi, and Montana had the highest population shares experiencing the condition. The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey taken from October 18 to October 30 reported that 8.0% of all adults in Tennessee were currently experiencing long COVID. In Mississippi, 7.4% of all adults were, as were 7.2% of adults in Montana.

  
  

• COVID-positive adults between 60 and 69 had lower rates of long COVID (23.9%) than people younger than 60 (rates ranging from 25.8% to 27.3%).

  
  

• Cisgender women are more likely to experience long COVID than cisgender men. Thirty percent of cisgender women who have had COVID-19 experienced long COVID, compared to 20.2% of cisgender men.

Long COVID can affect anyone who has had COVID-19, but it’s more common in people who had severe cases of the virus or who are unvaccinated.

Data behind the news

The first day back for one Iowa high school started with a school shooting that left one sixth-grade student dead. Here’s the latest government data on these tragedies.

On Friday, a portion of the fuselage of a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew off early in an Alaska Airlines flight. The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded several of these planes for inspections since then. Travelers might be wondering what's safer: flying or driving?

Temperatures over the recent holiday season were milder than average, but now the East Coast is digging out from heavy snow and ice. For more on climate trends, dig into the data here.

Thousands of people take a break from alcohol after the holidays for something called “Dry January.” Luckily, this short article on the amount of wine made in the US is zero-proof.

Tonight is the one of the biggest games is US sports: the college football championship. This article from our archives breaks down what football means for colleges’ bottom lines.

Get ready: It’s time for the weekly fact quiz.

One last fact

The US military’s presence is largest in Japan and Germany, where 31% and 21% of active-duty troops were permanently assigned in 2022.