# Counties in North Carolina by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 100 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/north-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mecklenburg County | 121 |
| 2 | Wake County | 83 |
| 3 | Guilford County | 74 |
| 4 | Cumberland County | 59 |
| 5 | Robeson County | 46 |
| 6 | Buncombe County | 44 |
| 7 | Johnston County | 40 |
| 8 | Forsyth County | 39 |
| 9 | Gaston County | 37 |
| 10 | Harnett County | 35 |
| 11 | Davidson County | 33 |
| 12 | Rowan County | 32 |
| 13 | Durham County | 31 |
| 14 | New Hanover County | 29 |
| 14 | Randolph County | 29 |
| 16 | Iredell County | 27 |
| 17 | Pitt County | 26 |
| 18 | Alamance County | 25 |
| 19 | Brunswick County | 24 |
| 19 | Caldwell County | 24 |
| 19 | Union County | 24 |
| 22 | Cabarrus County | 23 |
| 23 | Catawba County | 22 |
| 23 | Orange County | 22 |
| 25 | Sampson County | 21 |
| 25 | Wayne County | 21 |
| 25 | Wilson County | 21 |
| 28 | Duplin County | 19 |
| 28 | Onslow County | 19 |
| 30 | Burke County | 18 |
| 30 | Columbus County | 18 |
| 32 | Chatham County | 17 |
| 32 | Franklin County | 17 |
| 32 | Moore County | 17 |
| 32 | Wilkes County | 17 |
| 36 | Cleveland County | 16 |
| 36 | Henderson County | 16 |
| 36 | Rutherford County | 16 |
| 39 | Edgecombe County | 15 |
| 39 | Hoke County | 15 |
| 39 | Lenoir County | 15 |
| 42 | Richmond County | 14 |
| 43 | Anson County | 13 |
| 43 | Carteret County | 13 |
| 43 | Halifax County | 13 |
| 43 | Rockingham County | 13 |
| 47 | Craven County | 12 |
| 47 | Lee County | 12 |
| 47 | Nash County | 12 |
| 47 | Surry County | 12 |
| 51 | Beaufort County | 11 |
| 51 | Stanly County | 11 |
| 51 | Yadkin County | 11 |
| 54 | Davie County | 10 |
| 54 | Haywood County | 10 |
| 56 | Granville County | 9 |
| 56 | Madison County | 9 |
| 58 | Macon County | 8 |
| 58 | Montgomery County | 8 |
| 58 | Scotland County | 8 |
| 58 | Warren County | 8 |
| 62 | Caswell County | 7 |
| 62 | Dare County | 7 |
| 62 | Hertford County | 7 |
| 62 | Lincoln County | 7 |
| 62 | Northampton County | 7 |
| 62 | Pender County | 7 |
| 68 | Alexander County | 6 |
| 68 | Bladen County | 6 |
| 68 | McDowell County | 6 |
| 68 | Person County | 6 |
| 68 | Stokes County | 6 |
| 73 | Clay County | 5 |
| 73 | Gates County | 5 |
| 73 | Jackson County | 5 |
| 73 | Martin County | 5 |
| 73 | Mitchell County | 5 |
| 73 | Polk County | 5 |
| 79 | Cherokee County | 4 |
| 79 | Greene County | 4 |
| 79 | Pasquotank County | 4 |
| 79 | Transylvania County | 4 |
| 79 | Tyrrell County | 4 |
| 79 | Vance County | 4 |
| 79 | Watauga County | 4 |
| 86 | Ashe County | 3 |
| 86 | Pamlico County | 3 |
| 86 | Perquimans County | 3 |
| 86 | Washington County | 3 |
| 90 | Avery County | 2 |
| 90 | Currituck County | 2 |
| 90 | Graham County | 2 |
| 90 | Swain County | 2 |
| 90 | Yancey County | 2 |
| 95 | Bertie County | 1 |
| 95 | Hyde County | 1 |
| 95 | Jones County | 1 |
| 98 | Alleghany County | 0 |
| 98 | Camden County | 0 |
| 98 | Chowan County | 0 |