Hate Crime in Maryland (2024)
46 Maryland agencies reported at least one bias-motivated incident to the FBI in 2024 — a total of 278 incidents affecting 251 victims. Reporting is voluntary: differences between states say as much about reporting practice as about hate crime itself, which is why this site does not rank states on this topic.
By bias motivation (2024)
| Bias motivation | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Race / ethnicity / ancestry | 130 | 46.8% |
| Religion | 73 | 26.3% |
| Sexual orientation | 45 | 16.2% |
| Gender identity | 11 | 4.0% |
| Gender | 2 | 0.7% |
| Disability | 3 | 1.1% |
| Multiple biases | 14 | 5.0% |
National trend and methodology: U.S. hate crime statistics, 1991–2024
How to read these numbers
Reporting is voluntary, and that shapes every figure on this page.Agencies choose whether to participate in the FBI's hate crime data collection, and participation differs sharply across states and years. A higher count often reflects an agency that takes identification and reporting seriously — not necessarily more hate crime. That is why states are listed alphabetically here, never ranked.
A hate crime incident is a crime the investigating agency determined was motivated in whole or part by bias against the victim's perceived race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability. Incidents with multiple bias motivations are counted once, in the "multiple biases" category (FBI convention), so categories sum to the total.
An agency reporting zero incidents in 2024 may have affirmatively reported none, or may not have participated — where the data distinguishes the two, this site does. No per-capita rates and no county figures are shown: at those grains, differences in reporting practice overwhelm differences in what actually happened.
Source: FBI Hate Crime Statistics, 1991–2024, cross-checked against the FBI's 2024 hate crime master file.