According to the Ministry of the Interior, Austria recorded 1,986 reports of far-right, xenophobic, racist, Islamophobic or antisemitic offences in 2025. This marks a significant increase from previous years, compared with just under 1,000 cases in 2022.
Of these, 1,701 reports concerned explicitly far-right incidents, according to the response of Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) to a parliamentary query from the SPÖ. In addition, 127 offences had a racist motive, 93 were antisemitic, and 16 were Islamophobic.
Far-right crimes occurred predominantly offline, with only 28 per cent taking place on the internet. In contrast, over half of racist offences and nearly three-quarters of antisemitic incidents were online.
Vienna recorded the highest number of reports with 485, followed by Upper Austria (350), Lower Austria (298), Salzburg (160), Vorarlberg (147), Styria (146), Carinthia (126), Tyrol (113) and Burgenland (43). A further 118 cases could not be assigned to a specific federal state.
More than 1,500 people were reported for far-right offences in 2025, representing an increase of over one-third from the previous year. Over 90 per cent of those reported were male, and 81 per cent were Austrian citizens. The proportion of young people among the reported dropped from 25 per cent in 2024 to 16 per cent in 2025.
Sabine Schatz, SPÖ spokeswoman for remembrance culture, expressed alarm at the trend. “We must not become accustomed to rising numbers,” she said, calling for “politics that observes and acts.”
