# Counties in Kentucky by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 120 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/kentucky-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jefferson County | 113 |
| 2 | Fayette County | 37 |
| 3 | Hardin County | 25 |
| 4 | Warren County | 21 |
| 5 | Pike County | 19 |
| 6 | Laurel County | 18 |
| 6 | Pulaski County | 18 |
| 8 | McCracken County | 16 |
| 9 | Scott County | 14 |
| 10 | Whitley County | 12 |
| 11 | Christian County | 11 |
| 11 | Hopkins County | 11 |
| 13 | Bullitt County | 10 |
| 13 | Nelson County | 10 |
| 13 | Shelby County | 10 |
| 16 | Clark County | 9 |
| 16 | Floyd County | 9 |
| 16 | Madison County | 9 |
| 19 | Boyle County | 8 |
| 19 | Daviess County | 8 |
| 19 | Lincoln County | 8 |
| 19 | Marshall County | 8 |
| 23 | Barren County | 7 |
| 23 | Graves County | 7 |
| 23 | Green County | 7 |
| 23 | Kenton County | 7 |
| 23 | Mason County | 7 |
| 28 | Adair County | 6 |
| 28 | Boone County | 6 |
| 28 | Carter County | 6 |
| 28 | Grant County | 6 |
| 28 | Lewis County | 6 |
| 28 | Rockcastle County | 6 |
| 34 | Butler County | 5 |
| 34 | Caldwell County | 5 |
| 34 | Greenup County | 5 |
| 34 | Henderson County | 5 |
| 34 | Meade County | 5 |
| 34 | Muhlenberg County | 5 |
| 34 | Ohio County | 5 |
| 34 | Powell County | 5 |
| 34 | Simpson County | 5 |
| 34 | Todd County | 5 |
| 44 | Bath County | 4 |
| 44 | Bourbon County | 4 |
| 44 | Breathitt County | 4 |
| 44 | Breckinridge County | 4 |
| 44 | Calloway County | 4 |
| 44 | Garrard County | 4 |
| 44 | Harlan County | 4 |
| 44 | Knott County | 4 |
| 44 | Larue County | 4 |
| 44 | Lee County | 4 |
| 44 | Letcher County | 4 |
| 44 | Livingston County | 4 |
| 44 | Logan County | 4 |
| 44 | Lyon County | 4 |
| 44 | Magoffin County | 4 |
| 44 | Montgomery County | 4 |
| 44 | Oldham County | 4 |
| 44 | Wayne County | 4 |
| 44 | Woodford County | 4 |
| 63 | Allen County | 3 |
| 63 | Bell County | 3 |
| 63 | Campbell County | 3 |
| 63 | Casey County | 3 |
| 63 | Clinton County | 3 |
| 63 | Edmonson County | 3 |
| 63 | Franklin County | 3 |
| 63 | Grayson County | 3 |
| 63 | Henry County | 3 |
| 63 | Jessamine County | 3 |
| 63 | Knox County | 3 |
| 63 | Mercer County | 3 |
| 63 | Nicholas County | 3 |
| 63 | Owen County | 3 |
| 63 | Taylor County | 3 |
| 63 | Trigg County | 3 |
| 63 | Washington County | 3 |
| 63 | Webster County | 3 |
| 81 | Anderson County | 2 |
| 81 | Boyd County | 2 |
| 81 | Carroll County | 2 |
| 81 | Clay County | 2 |
| 81 | Crittenden County | 2 |
| 81 | Elliott County | 2 |
| 81 | Gallatin County | 2 |
| 81 | Harrison County | 2 |
| 81 | Hart County | 2 |
| 81 | Lawrence County | 2 |
| 81 | Marion County | 2 |
| 81 | McCreary County | 2 |
| 81 | McLean County | 2 |
| 81 | Morgan County | 2 |
| 81 | Pendleton County | 2 |
| 81 | Spencer County | 2 |
| 81 | Trimble County | 2 |
| 81 | Wolfe County | 2 |
| 99 | Ballard County | 1 |
| 99 | Estill County | 1 |
| 99 | Fleming County | 1 |
| 99 | Hancock County | 1 |
| 99 | Jackson County | 1 |
| 99 | Johnson County | 1 |
| 99 | Leslie County | 1 |
| 99 | Martin County | 1 |
| 99 | Menifee County | 1 |
| 99 | Monroe County | 1 |
| 99 | Owsley County | 1 |
| 99 | Perry County | 1 |
| 99 | Robertson County | 1 |
| 99 | Rowan County | 1 |
| 99 | Russell County | 1 |
| 99 | Union County | 1 |
| 115 | Bracken County | 0 |
| 115 | Carlisle County | 0 |
| 115 | Cumberland County | 0 |
| 115 | Fulton County | 0 |
| 115 | Hickman County | 0 |
| 115 | Metcalfe County | 0 |