Jews over nine times more likely to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group, CAA analysis of home office stats shows

An analysis by Campaign Against Antisemitism of new Home Office statistics released this week shows that Jews are more than nine times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group.

The figures published this year, however, exclude data from the Metropolitan Police Service, which was included in previous reports.

Police forces across the country record hate crimes against Jews as religious hate crimes, and these records show that in the year 2024/25, 2,873 hate crimes were committed against Jews, making Jews the target in 28% – almost one in three – of the total number of religious hate crimes.

These figures mean that there is an average of just under eight hate crimes directed at Jews every single day in England and Wales. Hate crimes against Jews are also still widely believed to be under-reported, and also do not reflect the extent of antisemitic material and abuse on social media.

However, when one accounts for the miniscule size of the Jewish population, it emerges that Jews are statistically more than nine times more likely to be the targets of hate crimes than any other religious group, with some 1,060 hate crimes per 100,000 of the Jewish population in 2024/25.