AI Analysis: Police-reported hate crime, by type of motivation, number of incidents and year to date total, preliminary quarterly data, Canada and regions

Executive Summary

Statistics Canada's preliminary quarterly hate crime data (Table 35100132) reveals 8,624 records of police-reported incidents across Canada and its regions from 2024–2025, with incident counts ranging from 0 to 4,722 and a heavily right-skewed distribution where the mean (76.3) is nearly 10 times the median (8.0). A small number of motivation categories — particularly race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation — drive the vast majority of reported incidents, while most motivation-region-quarter combinations report very low or zero counts. The data highlights significant geographic and categorical variation, with Ontario and broader Canada totals consistently dominating regional comparisons.

Key Findings

• The dataset contains 8,624 records spanning 7 geographic regions and 77 distinct hate crime motivation types, covering preliminary quarterly data for 2024–2025.
• Incident counts are highly right-skewed, with a median of just 8.0 incidents versus a mean of 76.3, and a maximum of 4,722 — indicating extreme outliers in a small number of categories.
• 75% of all motivation-region-quarter combinations report 44 or fewer incidents, and 25% report zero, showing that high-volume hate crime is concentrated in relatively few categories.
• The single highest quarterly total for any motivation type reached 1,286 incidents under 'Total police-reported hate crime,' which aggregates all subtypes and dominates cumulative volume.
• The top 15 motivation types — led by race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation — account for the overwhelming majority of year-to-date hate crime totals across Canada.
• The standard deviation of 272.6 is more than three times the mean, reflecting extreme variability across regions, motivation types, and time periods.
• Quarterly and year-to-date totals are closely correlated by design, as YTD figures accumulate across Q1–Q4, making late-year quarters the strongest indicators of annual hate crime volume.