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Home Hate Crime 2010 Tables Table 13 West Virginia

Table 13

WEST VIRGINIA

Hate Crime Incidents
per Bias Motivation and Quarter
by State and Agency, 2010

State Agency type Agency name Number of incidents per bias motivation Number of incidents per quarter1 Population2
Race Religion Sexual
orientation
Ethnicity Disability 1st
quarter
2nd
quarter
3rd
quarter
4th
quarter
WEST VIRGINIA Total 24 3 4 2 0
Cities 11 3 3 2 0
Beckley 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 16,990
Buckhannon 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5,601
Ceredo 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1,608
Charleston 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 50,822
Clarksburg 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 16,652
Fairmont 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19,332
Huntington 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 49,703
Martinsburg 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 17,654
Nitro 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6,836
Parkersburg 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 32,001
South Charleston 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 12,691
Wheeling 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 29,054
Universities and Colleges 1 0 0 0 0
West Virginia University 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 28,898
Metropolitan Counties 11 0 1 0 0
Berkeley 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Brooke 6 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 4
Kanawha 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 3 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 1 0 0 0 0
Raleigh 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  • 1 Agencies published in this table indicated that at least one hate crime incident occurred in their respective jurisdictions during the quarter(s) for which they submitted a report to the Hate Crime Statistics Program. Blanks indicate quarters for which agencies did not submit reports.
  • 2 Population figures are published only for the cities. The figures listed for the universities and colleges are student enrollment and were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2009 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.

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