# Counties in South Carolina by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 46 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/south-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Greenville County | 94 |
| 2 | Spartanburg County | 66 |
| 3 | Richland County | 63 |
| 4 | Charleston County | 61 |
| 5 | Horry County | 58 |
| 6 | Lexington County | 54 |
| 7 | Orangeburg County | 48 |
| 8 | Anderson County | 45 |
| 9 | Dorchester County | 38 |
| 10 | Berkeley County | 37 |
| 11 | York County | 34 |
| 12 | Aiken County | 29 |
| 13 | Florence County | 28 |
| 14 | Beaufort County | 27 |
| 15 | Sumter County | 23 |
| 16 | Darlington County | 22 |
| 17 | Pickens County | 21 |
| 18 | Cherokee County | 20 |
| 18 | Georgetown County | 20 |
| 18 | Lancaster County | 20 |
| 21 | Colleton County | 17 |
| 21 | Jasper County | 17 |
| 21 | Laurens County | 17 |
| 24 | Dillon County | 14 |
| 24 | Marion County | 14 |
| 24 | Oconee County | 14 |
| 27 | Chesterfield County | 10 |
| 27 | Fairfield County | 10 |
| 27 | Kershaw County | 10 |
| 27 | Union County | 10 |
| 31 | Clarendon County | 9 |
| 31 | Marlboro County | 9 |
| 31 | Williamsburg County | 9 |
| 34 | Barnwell County | 8 |
| 34 | Chester County | 8 |
| 34 | Newberry County | 8 |
| 34 | Saluda County | 8 |
| 38 | Calhoun County | 6 |
| 38 | Edgefield County | 6 |
| 40 | Greenwood County | 5 |
| 40 | Hampton County | 5 |
| 42 | Abbeville County | 4 |
| 42 | Lee County | 4 |
| 42 | McCormick County | 4 |
| 45 | Bamberg County | 3 |
| 46 | Allendale County | 1 |