Overview
- Police recorded 115,990 hate crimes in the year to March 2025 outside the Metropolitan Police, a 2% increase and the first overall rise in three years.
- Religiously motivated offences reached a record 7,164, while race hate crimes grew 6% to 82,490.
- Offences against Muslims rose 19% to 3,199, with a clear August 2024 spike linked by officials to the Southport murders and subsequent disorder.
- Recorded anti-Jewish religious hate crimes fell 18% among forces outside London to 1,715, but the Met historically accounts for about 40% of such cases.
- Community monitors reported elevated incident levels and the government increased patrols and pledged £50m to protect places of worship following the Manchester synagogue attack treated as terrorism.