# Counties in California by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 58 values come from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `traffic_fatalities`
- Unit: count
- Definition: People killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes during the year. FARS counts people who die within 30 days of a crash involving a motor vehicle travelling on a public road, by the place of the crash, not of residence.
- Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash (https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2024/National/FARS2024NationalCSV.zip)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash. https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2024/National/FARS2024NationalCSV.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/traffic-fatalities/california-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Los Angeles County | 778 |
| 2 | San Bernardino County | 350 |
| 3 | San Diego County | 303 |
| 4 | Riverside County | 289 |
| 5 | Orange County | 199 |
| 6 | Kern County | 194 |
| 7 | Fresno County | 169 |
| 8 | Sacramento County | 156 |
| 9 | San Joaquin County | 139 |
| 10 | Alameda County | 100 |
| 10 | Santa Clara County | 100 |
| 12 | Stanislaus County | 88 |
| 13 | Tulare County | 72 |
| 14 | Contra Costa County | 66 |
| 15 | Ventura County | 58 |
| 16 | San Francisco County | 48 |
| 17 | Merced County | 46 |
| 18 | Monterey County | 45 |
| 19 | Solano County | 41 |
| 20 | Placer County | 40 |
| 21 | Santa Barbara County | 38 |
| 22 | Butte County | 34 |
| 23 | Madera County | 33 |
| 23 | Shasta County | 33 |
| 25 | Kings County | 30 |
| 25 | San Luis Obispo County | 30 |
| 25 | San Mateo County | 30 |
| 28 | Sonoma County | 29 |
| 29 | Humboldt County | 26 |
| 29 | Imperial County | 26 |
| 31 | Lake County | 25 |
| 32 | Yolo County | 21 |
| 33 | Sutter County | 20 |
| 34 | El Dorado County | 17 |
| 35 | Santa Cruz County | 16 |
| 36 | Inyo County | 15 |
| 37 | Mendocino County | 14 |
| 37 | Yuba County | 14 |
| 39 | Calaveras County | 13 |
| 39 | Tehama County | 13 |
| 41 | Siskiyou County | 12 |
| 42 | Marin County | 11 |
| 42 | Napa County | 11 |
| 42 | San Benito County | 11 |
| 42 | Tuolumne County | 11 |
| 46 | Colusa County | 8 |
| 46 | Glenn County | 8 |
| 46 | Nevada County | 8 |
| 49 | Amador County | 7 |
| 50 | Del Norte County | 6 |
| 50 | Mono County | 6 |
| 50 | Trinity County | 6 |
| 53 | Modoc County | 4 |
| 54 | Lassen County | 3 |
| 55 | Mariposa County | 2 |
| 55 | Plumas County | 2 |
| 57 | Alpine County | 1 |
| 57 | Sierra County | 1 |