# Counties in South Dakota by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 66 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-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 16 |
| 2 | Pennington County | 12 |
| 3 | Lawrence County | 11 |
| 4 | Charles Mix County | 8 |
| 4 | Lincoln County | 8 |
| 6 | Meade County | 7 |
| 7 | McCook County | 6 |
| 8 | Codington County | 5 |
| 8 | Fall River County | 5 |
| 8 | Lyman County | 5 |
| 11 | Beadle County | 4 |
| 11 | Buffalo County | 4 |
| 11 | Hutchinson County | 4 |
| 11 | Yankton County | 4 |
| 15 | Brown County | 3 |
| 15 | Butte County | 3 |
| 15 | Deuel County | 3 |
| 15 | Jackson County | 3 |
| 15 | Oglala Lakota County | 3 |
| 20 | Bon Homme County | 2 |
| 20 | Brookings County | 2 |
| 20 | Clay County | 2 |
| 20 | Custer County | 2 |
| 20 | Harding County | 2 |
| 20 | Moody County | 2 |
| 20 | Roberts County | 2 |
| 20 | Stanley County | 2 |
| 20 | Union County | 2 |
| 29 | Aurora County | 1 |
| 29 | Bennett County | 1 |
| 29 | Brule County | 1 |
| 29 | Corson County | 1 |
| 29 | Dewey County | 1 |
| 29 | Grant County | 1 |
| 29 | Haakon County | 1 |
| 29 | Hanson County | 1 |
| 29 | Hughes County | 1 |
| 29 | Hyde County | 1 |
| 29 | Jerauld County | 1 |
| 29 | Kingsbury County | 1 |
| 29 | Spink County | 1 |
| 29 | Ziebach County | 1 |
| 43 | Campbell County | 0 |
| 43 | Clark County | 0 |
| 43 | Davison County | 0 |
| 43 | Day County | 0 |
| 43 | Douglas County | 0 |
| 43 | Edmunds County | 0 |
| 43 | Faulk County | 0 |
| 43 | Gregory County | 0 |
| 43 | Hamlin County | 0 |
| 43 | Hand County | 0 |
| 43 | Jones County | 0 |
| 43 | Lake County | 0 |
| 43 | Marshall County | 0 |
| 43 | McPherson County | 0 |
| 43 | Mellette County | 0 |
| 43 | Miner County | 0 |
| 43 | Perkins County | 0 |
| 43 | Potter County | 0 |
| 43 | Sanborn County | 0 |
| 43 | Sully County | 0 |
| 43 | Todd County | 0 |
| 43 | Tripp County | 0 |
| 43 | Turner County | 0 |
| 43 | Walworth County | 0 |