# Counties in Maryland by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 24 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/maryland-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Prince George's County | 101 |
| 2 | Baltimore County | 74 |
| 3 | Baltimore city | 61 |
| 4 | Anne Arundel County | 52 |
| 5 | Montgomery County | 47 |
| 6 | Charles County | 37 |
| 7 | Cecil County | 24 |
| 8 | Frederick County | 23 |
| 9 | Howard County | 21 |
| 10 | Wicomico County | 17 |
| 11 | Carroll County | 16 |
| 12 | Calvert County | 14 |
| 12 | Washington County | 14 |
| 14 | Harford County | 13 |
| 14 | St. Mary's County | 13 |
| 16 | Allegany County | 10 |
| 16 | Caroline County | 10 |
| 18 | Dorchester County | 7 |
| 18 | Queen Anne's County | 7 |
| 18 | Worcester County | 7 |
| 21 | Somerset County | 4 |
| 22 | Garrett County | 3 |
| 22 | Talbot County | 3 |
| 24 | Kent County | 0 |