# Counties in Illinois by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 102 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/illinois-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Cook County | 362 |
| 2 | Will County | 58 |
| 3 | DuPage County | 56 |
| 4 | Lake County | 50 |
| 5 | St. Clair County | 45 |
| 6 | Madison County | 39 |
| 7 | Kane County | 30 |
| 8 | LaSalle County | 29 |
| 9 | McHenry County | 27 |
| 9 | Winnebago County | 27 |
| 11 | Kankakee County | 23 |
| 12 | Sangamon County | 21 |
| 13 | Peoria County | 20 |
| 14 | Tazewell County | 16 |
| 15 | Jackson County | 13 |
| 15 | Macon County | 13 |
| 17 | Coles County | 12 |
| 17 | Kendall County | 12 |
| 19 | McLean County | 11 |
| 19 | Randolph County | 11 |
| 19 | Rock Island County | 11 |
| 22 | Champaign County | 10 |
| 22 | Williamson County | 10 |
| 24 | DeKalb County | 9 |
| 24 | Grundy County | 9 |
| 24 | Jefferson County | 9 |
| 27 | Knox County | 8 |
| 27 | Livingston County | 8 |
| 27 | Vermilion County | 8 |
| 30 | Christian County | 7 |
| 30 | Effingham County | 7 |
| 30 | Whiteside County | 7 |
| 33 | Boone County | 6 |
| 33 | Fulton County | 6 |
| 33 | Iroquois County | 6 |
| 33 | Morgan County | 6 |
| 33 | Schuyler County | 6 |
| 33 | Shelby County | 6 |
| 33 | Washington County | 6 |
| 33 | Woodford County | 6 |
| 41 | Clay County | 5 |
| 41 | Crawford County | 5 |
| 41 | Douglas County | 5 |
| 41 | Edgar County | 5 |
| 41 | Ford County | 5 |
| 41 | Jersey County | 5 |
| 41 | Macoupin County | 5 |
| 41 | Piatt County | 5 |
| 49 | Bureau County | 4 |
| 49 | Logan County | 4 |
| 49 | Menard County | 4 |
| 49 | Montgomery County | 4 |
| 49 | Richland County | 4 |
| 49 | Saline County | 4 |
| 49 | Stephenson County | 4 |
| 49 | Union County | 4 |
| 57 | Alexander County | 3 |
| 57 | Bond County | 3 |
| 57 | Clark County | 3 |
| 57 | Clinton County | 3 |
| 57 | Franklin County | 3 |
| 57 | Lawrence County | 3 |
| 57 | Marion County | 3 |
| 57 | Monroe County | 3 |
| 57 | Moultrie County | 3 |
| 57 | Ogle County | 3 |
| 57 | Perry County | 3 |
| 57 | White County | 3 |
| 69 | De Witt County | 2 |
| 69 | Edwards County | 2 |
| 69 | Fayette County | 2 |
| 69 | Gallatin County | 2 |
| 69 | Henry County | 2 |
| 69 | Jasper County | 2 |
| 69 | Johnson County | 2 |
| 69 | Marshall County | 2 |
| 69 | Mason County | 2 |
| 69 | Mercer County | 2 |
| 69 | Pope County | 2 |
| 69 | Pulaski County | 2 |
| 69 | Putnam County | 2 |
| 69 | Stark County | 2 |
| 69 | Wayne County | 2 |
| 84 | Adams County | 1 |
| 84 | Brown County | 1 |
| 84 | Carroll County | 1 |
| 84 | Cass County | 1 |
| 84 | Cumberland County | 1 |
| 84 | Greene County | 1 |
| 84 | Hamilton County | 1 |
| 84 | Hancock County | 1 |
| 84 | Henderson County | 1 |
| 84 | Massac County | 1 |
| 84 | Pike County | 1 |
| 84 | Scott County | 1 |
| 84 | Wabash County | 1 |
| 97 | Calhoun County | 0 |
| 97 | Hardin County | 0 |
| 97 | Jo Daviess County | 0 |
| 97 | Lee County | 0 |
| 97 | McDonough County | 0 |
| 97 | Warren County | 0 |