# US states by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 51 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), United States and states (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), United States and states. https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2024/National/FARS2024NationalCSV.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/traffic-fatalities/us-states

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 4,160 |
| 2 | California | 3,876 |
| 3 | Florida | 3,138 |
| 4 | North Carolina | 1,619 |
| 5 | Georgia | 1,403 |
| 6 | Arizona | 1,229 |
| 7 | Tennessee | 1,197 |
| 8 | Illinois | 1,177 |
| 9 | Ohio | 1,157 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | 1,127 |
| 11 | New York | 1,101 |
| 12 | Michigan | 1,098 |
| 13 | South Carolina | 1,038 |
| 14 | Alabama | 962 |
| 15 | Missouri | 955 |
| 16 | Virginia | 917 |
| 17 | Indiana | 832 |
| 18 | Mississippi | 753 |
| 19 | Louisiana | 752 |
| 20 | Washington | 730 |
| 21 | Kentucky | 707 |
| 22 | Colorado | 689 |
| 23 | New Jersey | 670 |
| 24 | Oklahoma | 645 |
| 25 | Arkansas | 603 |
| 26 | Wisconsin | 595 |
| 27 | Maryland | 578 |
| 28 | Oregon | 538 |
| 29 | Minnesota | 477 |
| 30 | Nevada | 417 |
| 31 | New Mexico | 409 |
| 32 | Massachusetts | 363 |
| 33 | Iowa | 356 |
| 34 | Kansas | 339 |
| 35 | Connecticut | 310 |
| 36 | Utah | 277 |
| 37 | West Virginia | 256 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 251 |
| 39 | Idaho | 238 |
| 40 | Montana | 206 |
| 41 | Maine | 177 |
| 42 | South Dakota | 146 |
| 43 | New Hampshire | 133 |
| 44 | Delaware | 126 |
| 45 | Wyoming | 107 |
| 46 | Hawaii | 102 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 90 |
| 48 | Alaska | 70 |
| 49 | Vermont | 59 |
| 50 | Rhode Island | 52 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 47 |