Hate crimes reported to the police in 2024
A compilation of the cases that were classified as hate crimes by the police, and where Brå has also identified a hate crime. English summary of Brå report 2025:19
This report presents Brå's statistics on offences reported to the police in 2024 where hate was the underlying motive. The statistics are based on all reported crimes that the police classified as hate crimes and where Brå has also identified hate as the underlying motive in the police report.
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- Report 2025:19
Summary
In Brå's review of the police reports classified as hate crimes in 2024, hate crime motives were identified in 2,731 police reports and 3,707 offences
Some of the 2,731 police reports were identified to include more than one hate crime motive, which resulted in 2,867 identified hate crime motives in total. Of these, xenophobic and racist hate crimes were most common (50 %), followed by hate crimes against religious groups (18 %) and LGBTQI-related hate crimes (13 %). Moreover, 20 percent of all hate crime motives were identified as unspecified. In these reports, it seems that a hate crime has been committed, but it is not possible to deduce the specific motive behind the reported offence. The distribution of hate crime motive categories is largely unchanged compared to 2020 and 2022, except for the proportion of antisemitic hate crimes, which has increased since 2020.
Molestation was the most common crime category among all hate crime motives, accounting for 23 percent of all offences with a hate crime motive. Agitation against a population group and property damage (often in the form of graffiti) were essentially on a par at 20 percent each, followed by defamation (14 %) and unlawful threats (11 %). The distribution between crime categories is similar to 2022.
The most common crime scene in the reports was a public place, representing 20 percent of the reports classified as hate crime. The school environment was also a relatively common crime scene, with about 19 percent of the reported hate crimes. Other common crime scenes were in digital environments and in or near the victim's home, at around 14 and 13 percent respectively. Since 2022, the proportion of police reports of hate crimes that had occurred at school has increased slightly, and the proportion that occurred in or near the victim's home has decreased slightly.
About the study
This report presents Brå's statistics on offences reported to the police in 2024 where hate was the underlying motive. The statistics are based on all reported crimes that the police classified as hate crimes and where Brå has also identified hate as the underlying motive in the police report. The report is a descriptive compilation and comprises an analysis of both the police's hate crime classification, as well as an account of the hate crime motives that Brå has identified, categorised according to the crime category, the type of crime scene, the modus operandi used in the hate crime, the victim's gender, the perpetrator's gender, victimisation at work and the victim's relationship to the perpetrator. The report presents statistics on the regional distribution of the reported offences, that is, according to the police region in which they were registered, and statistics on the distribution of hate crimes per municipality, based on where the offences took place. Finally, the processing decisions for the hate crimes included in the statistics for 2022 are also presented.