Reported anti-Asian hate incidents in U.S. top 10,000

Asian Americans protesting rise in pandemic-triggered anti-Asian hate incidents. REUTERS

A new survey shows that reported hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have reached 10,370.

Nearly one in five Asian Americans (21.2%) and Pacific Islanders (20.0%) have experienced a hate incident the past year, according to the study released by  Stop AAPI Hate, covering the period from March 19, 2020, when the pandemic began, to Sept. 30, 2021.

Verbal harassment (62.9%) and shunning or deliberate avoidance (16.3%) of Asian and Pacific Islanders continue to make up the biggest share of total incidents reported.

Physical assault (16.1%) comprises the third largest category of total reported incidents followed by online harassment (8.6%).

Civil rights violations — e.g., workplace discrimination, refusal of service, being barred from transportation, and housing-related discrimination — account for 11.3% of total incidents.

A majority of incidents take place in spaces open to the public. Public streets (31.2% of incidents) and businesses (26.8% of incidents) remain the top sites of anti-AAPI hate.

Hate incidents reported by women make up 62.0% of all reports.

Youth (up to 17 years old) report 9.9% of incidents and seniors (61 years old and older) report 7.1% of the total incidents.

Chinese report the most hate incidents (42.7%) of all ethnic groups, followed by Korean (16.1%), Filipino (9.0%), Japanese (8.2%), and Vietnamese (7.8%).

Stop AAPI Hate partnered with the Edelman Data & Intelligence Team to conduct a nationally-representative online survey with more than 1,000 AAPI respondents.