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Religious Hate Crimes

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003793/V

Version Date: 27/10/2025

The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information:

Data Processing:

Religion related crime has been extracted from our race and hate database. This has been filtered to only show crimes where religion was the hate aspect from 7th October 2020 to 6th October 2025. All crime has been pulled from our Crime database.

  1. How many religious hate crimes have been reported in Dorset each year for the last five years?

LA Area and SC Hate Crime

2020 (from 07/10/2020)

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025 (until 06/10/2025)

Total

Bmth

4

17

14

17

30

24

106

Religion or belief - Anti Christian

-

-

1

-

1

-

2

Religion or belief - Anti Christian;Racial

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Christian;Sexual orientation

-

-

-

1

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

-

5

5

6

5

3

24

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

1

3

-

1

3

9

17

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Religion or belief - Unknown

-

-

-

1

1

-

2

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Sexual orientation

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim

1

5

2

4

7

6

25

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim;Racial

1

2

2

2

3

4

14

Religion or belief - Anti other

-

1

2

-

2

1

6

Religion or belief - Unknown

1

1

2

-

3

-

7

Religion or belief - Unknown;Racial

-

-

-

2

2

1

5

Religion or belief - Unknown;Racial;Sexual orientation

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

E Dorset

1

2

-

-

1

1

5

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

1

-

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim;Racial

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

Religion or belief - Unknown

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

N Dorset

1

4

1

-

1

-

7

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

-

2

1

-

-

-

3

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Disability

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim;Racial

1

-

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Unknown;Racial

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

Poole

1

-

1

4

5

6

17

Religion or belief - Anti Christian

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

1

-

-

2

-

-

3

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

-

-

-

-

2

2

4

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim

-

-

1

-

1

1

3

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim;Gender

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim;Racial

-

-

-

1

-

2

3

Religion or belief - Anti other

-

-

-

1

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Unknown

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

Purbeck

-

-

1

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - No religion

-

-

1

-

-

-

1

W Dorset

-

1

3

3

2

3

12

Religion or belief - Anti Christian

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

Religion or belief - Anti Hindu

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

-

-

2

-

-

-

2

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

-

1

-

-

1

-

2

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim;Racial

-

-

1

-

1

1

3

Religion or belief - Unknown

-

-

-

3

-

-

3

Weymouth

-

1

3

2

5

-

11

Religion or belief - Anti Buddhist

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

-

-

1

1

1

-

3

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

-

-

-

-

1

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim;Racial

-

-

1

-

1

-

2

Religion or belief - Anti other

-

-

-

-

2

-

2

Religion or belief - Unknown

-

-

1

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Unknown;Racial

-

-

-

1

-

-

1

X Ch

1

2

-

1

1

2

7

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

-

1

-

1

1

-

3

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

-

1

-

-

-

1

2

Religion or belief - Anti other

1

-

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Unknown

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

(blank)

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

Religion or belief - Anti Muslim

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

Total

8

28

23

27

45

36

167
  1. If possible, please provide a breakdown of these crimes by religion.

Please see answer to question 1.

  1. How many of these religious hate crimes led to charges?

Charged

2021

2024

2025

Total

Religion or belief - Anti Hindu

 

 

1

1

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish

1

1

 

2

Religion or belief - Anti Jewish;Racial

 

1

 

1

Total

1

2

1

4
  1. Please provide a breakdown of these crimes by region/area of Dorset.

Please see answer to question 1.