The State of Anti-AA/PI Hate in 2025

Five years after the surge in anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, hate against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AA/PI) communities remains entrenched across the United States.

This year, Stop AAPI Hate conducted its third annual nationally representative survey to understand the scale of anti-Asian American and anti-Pacific Islander (anti-AA/PI) hate acts across the nation. This report on the state of anti-AA/PI hate, “Closing Doors, Widening Harm: Persistent Hate Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in an Anti-Immigrant Climate,” summarizes key survey findings and shares accounts of hate acts reported to Stop AAPI Hate’s reporting center that occurred in 2025. Together, these sources provide a comprehensive and sobering picture of hate and its impacts on AA/PI communities.

Key findings

About half (49%) of AA/PI adults experienced a hate act in 2025 due to their race, ethnicity, or nationality — statistically similar to 53% in 2024 and 49% in 2023.

• Harassment and institutional discrimination continued to be the most common forms of hate. In 2025, 44% experienced harassment, 23% experienced institutional discrimination, 13% experienced physical harm or contact, and 10% experienced property harm.

• Rates of experiencing hate were similarly high across age, gender, income, language, and regional ethnic group.

• The prevalence of hate targeting Pacific Islander adults rose from 47% in 2024 to 57% in 2025, a statistically significant increase.

• The top three locations of hate continued to be online (43%), public spaces (40%), and businesses (36%).

• 52% of AA/PI adults said other aspects of their identity were targeted in addition to their race, ethnicity, or nationality. Age (27%), gender (25%), and class (23%) were the top three intersectional identities targeted.

53% of AA/PI adults said they or an AA/PI person they know personally were impacted by changes in immigration policies or anti-immigrant sentiment. 

• The top impacts on AA/PI communities had to do with their fundamental place and future in the U.S: 36% of respondents said either they, or another AA/PI individual they know (e.g., friend, family member), had their immigration or citizenship status questioned or revoked — or feared it might be. 30% experienced or feared detention or deportation, and 28% considered leaving the U.S. or prepared to do so.

• Both U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens, as well as both those born in the U.S. and those born outside of the U.S., expressed similar levels of feeling the impacts of anti-immigrant policies and sentiment.

Hate continued to impact AA/PI adults’ mental health, with those who experienced hate in 2025 reporting worse mental health than those who did not experience hate.

• 73% of AA/PI adults who experienced hate reported feeling stressed versus 54% of those who did not experience hate.
• 49% of AA/PI adults who experienced hate reported feeling isolated or alone versus the 26% of those who did not.
• 25% of AA/PI adults who experienced hate exhibited moderate or severe symptoms of anxiety or depression versus 10% of those who did not.

Reporting hate — especially to formal entities — and receiving sufficient support after hate remained low.

• After experiencing a hate act, only around half (54%) of AA/PI adults shared their experience with someone.
• Among those who experienced hate, just 22% reported to a formal authority or agency (e.g., a human resources department, school staff, the police, or a civil rights agency).
• Only one-third (33%) of those who experienced hate received any form of support.
• Around half (48%) of AA/PI adults who experienced hate reported insufficient support in at least one area of need.

Though AA/PI adults’ participation in activities to reduce or resist racial discrimination dropped, their motivation to advance justice and equity for their communities remains high.

• 56% of AA/PI adults participated in activities to reduce or resist racial discrimination — a significant decrease from 2023 (74%) and 2024 (66%).
• 67% of AA/PI adults are motivated to advance justice and equity for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

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