There is no single, complete public count for “Sikh youths attacked in 2025” for either country yet — hate-crime reporting lags, many incidents go unreported, and official national datasets are published for full calendar years (so the most robust recent US figures are for 2024). Below, I give (A) the best, sourced picture of the scale/trend, including the most recent US number available; (B) why exact 2025 youth-specific counts are hard to produce; and (C) concrete, evidence-based steps Canada and the U.S. can (and should) take to stop attacks on Sikh boys and girls.
United States: The FBI’s national hate-crime collection for the most recently released year shows that anti-Sikh victimizations remain among the most frequent religion-based hate incidents. Advocacy groups summarising the FBI release reported roughly 150–153 anti-Sikh victimizations in calendar year 2024 (Sikhs were the third-most targeted religious group). That dataset is the closest reliable national baseline that researchers and community groups use when discussing trends.
Canada: Statistics Canada and several large municipal police services report a sustained increase in hate crimes overall (police-reported hate crimes rose in 2023–2024), and research groups note a marked rise in anti-South-Asian / anti-Sikh incidents in recent years — including assaults, threats, and vandalism. However, there is not a single, public national table that lists “number of Sikh youth attacks in 2025”; instead, you’ll find (a) police-reported hate-crime totals by motivation and municipality, and (b) many local news reports of specific assaults on Sikh individuals (some of them youth). These sources show a worrying upward trend in anti-South-Asian/Sikh attacks but do not produce a single 2025 youth-only count.
Statistics Canada
Reporting lag and annual datasets: national public datasets (FBI, Statistics Canada) are released on an annual cycle and often report with a delay; the most robust national figures we have now cover calendar year 2024. (Any 2025 figures published by police are usually local and partial.)
Under-reporting and categorization: many victims — especially youth — don’t report incidents; police sometimes record motive differently (race/ethnicity vs. religion), and databases rarely publish a clean cross-tab of age × religion × motive that would let us isolate “Sikh youths” precisely. Advocacy groups (Sikh Coalition, SALDEF, United Sikhs) repeatedly warn that official numbers undercount real harms.
Below are measures supported by police reports, civil-rights organizations, and research on hate violence; they can be implemented at federal, provincial/state, and municipal levels.Require all law-enforcement agencies to use standardized fields (including victim age and religion/visible religious markers) and to submit data to a central public database in real time. Better data makes hotspots and youth-targeted trends visible so resources can be directed where needed. (This is a frequent recommendation from advocacy groups reviewing FBI/Statistics Canada gaps.)
Train frontline officers on Sikh religious markers (turban, kirpan) and on culturally appropriate interviewing and protection strategies; fund dedicated hate-crime units and Sikh community liaison officers so youth feel safe reporting. Several city police reports point to the value of hate-crime units and outreach.
Toronto Police Service
Fund anti-bias curricula, bystander training, and workshops in schools with strong Sikh representation. Early education reduces peer-based harassment (the most common place youth are targeted). Community organizations frequently call for school-based interventions.
Increase patrols and security resources for gurdwaras, community centres and events; provide grants for security upgrades and rapid response hotlines. Municipal police and community groups often coordinate temporary patrols after high-profile incidents.
Public, repeated condemnation of anti-Sikh attacks from national and local leaders reduces community fear and signals that violence will not be tolerated; diplomatic attention is also important when incidents have international dimensions. (Advocates highlight the role of leadership in shaping public discourse.)
Work with social platforms to remove calls to violence and organized harassment against Sikhs, and fund counter-narrative campaigns to reduce online radicalization that spills into street violence. Research into digital hate shows online abuses often precede offline attacks.
Ensure victims — especially young people — have access to trauma-informed legal aid, counselling, and culturally competent victim services. Community organizations emphasize survivor services as crucial for reporting and recovery.
If you want, I can pull together a one-page brief (citations and local contacts) tailored to a specific city or province/state — for example, a Toronto brief that lists recent municipal incidents, police contacts, and specific programs to request from city council.
Exact counts of “Sikh youths attacked in 2025” are not publicly available as a single national figure; the best recent national benchmark for the U.S. are FBI-derived numbers showing roughly ~150 anti-Sikh victimizations in 2024, and Canadian datasets show a broader rise in anti-South-Asian and hate crimes in 2023–2024 but do not give a single 2025 youth number at the national level. Because of reporting lags and undercounting, the real number of youth-targeted attacks is likely higher.