US states by firearm death rate, 2024

Mississippi had the highest firearm death rate of 51 states in 2024, at 28 per 100,000 people. Hawaii had the lowest, at 3.7 per 100,000 people. The median was 14.2 per 100,000 people. Source: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Highest28Mississippi

Lowest3.7Hawaii

Median14.251 states

All states, 2024

per 100,000 people. Source: CDC, NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, age-adjusted death rate. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2024 per 100,000 people	Change on 2023
1	Mississippi	28	-1.4 pts
2	New Mexico	26.6	+1.3 pts
3	Alaska	24.4	+0.9 pts
4	Alabama	23.7	-1.9 pts
5	Wyoming	23.4	+1.9 pts
6	Louisiana	22.9	-5.4 pts
7	Arkansas	20.6	-1.3 pts
8	Montana	20.2	-1.3 pts
9	Tennessee	19.8	-2.2 pts
10	District of Columbia	19.7	-10.9 pts
11	Missouri	19.6	-1.8 pts
12	South Carolina	19.5	+0.4 pts
13	Oklahoma	19.1	-0.8 pts
14	Kentucky	18.5	+0.1 pts
15	Georgia	17.6	-1 pts
16	South Dakota	17.3	+5 pts
17	Indiana	17.2	-1.1 pts
17	Nevada	17.2	-1.2 pts
19	Arizona	16.9	-1.6 pts
20	North Carolina	16.3	-0.1 pts
21	Idaho	15.9	-2 pts
22	Colorado	15.3	-1.3 pts
22	West Virginia	15.3	-1.5 pts
24	Kansas	15.2	-1.1 pts
25	Ohio	14.6	-0.4 pts
26	Oregon	14.2	0 pts
27	Texas	13.9	-1 pts
28	Utah	13.3	-1.5 pts
29	Virginia	12.8	-1 pts
30	Florida	12.7	-1 pts
31	Illinois	12.4	-1.1 pts
32	North Dakota	12.2	-0.6 pts
33	Wisconsin	12.1	-0.6 pts
34	Maine	11.9	-2.1 pts
34	Michigan	11.9	-2 pts
34	Pennsylvania	11.9	-1.7 pts
37	Delaware	11.8	-0.2 pts
37	Iowa	11.8	+1.3 pts
39	Maryland	11.6	-0.7 pts
40	Washington	11	-2 pts
41	Nebraska	10.9	+0.3 pts
42	Vermont	10.6	-1.4 pts
43	New Hampshire	10.2	+0.6 pts
44	Minnesota	9.8	+0.9 pts
45	California	7	-1 pts
46	Connecticut	5.8	-0.4 pts
47	Rhode Island	4.6	-0.2 pts
48	New York	4.4	-0.3 pts
49	New Jersey	4	-0.6 pts
50	Massachusetts	3.8	+0.1 pts
51	Hawaii	3.7	-1.2 pts

Other periods

About this ranking

Deaths from firearm injuries of any intent (suicide, homicide, unintentional, legal intervention or undetermined) per 100,000 residents, age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. Deaths are counted by the state of residence. NCHS National Vital Statistics System final death data.

Available for US states and DC. Age adjustment allows states with older or younger populations to be compared; the rate is not the number of deaths divided by the population.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, age-adjusted death rate. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html. Retrieved 2026-10-12. These data are available free from CDC. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, ATSDR, HHS or the United States Government.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2026). NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, age-adjusted death rate (US states by firearm death rate, 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html

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NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, age-adjusted death rate, US states by firearm death rate, 2024. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 May 2026, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/firearm-death-rate/us-states. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2026) NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, age-adjusted death rate, US states by firearm death rate, 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/firearm-death-rate/us-states (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which state has the highest firearm death rate?

Mississippi, with 28 per 100,000 people in 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Which state has the lowest firearm death rate?

Hawaii, with 3.7 per 100,000 people in 2024.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, age-adjusted death rate. Retrieved 2026-10-12.