Number of racist crimes in Northern Ireland, 2004-2017

The data displays the number of racially motivated hate crimes in Northern Ireland from April 2004 to May 2017, by year. After an initial increase of crime until the year 2006/07, the annual figures vary around one thousand reported instances from 2006 until 2010. A subsequent decrease resulted in a low point of less than seven hundred offences in 2011/2012. However, a drastic growth of race crime was recorded in the following years which concluded in a new peak in 2014/15.