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Lowest firearm deaths by state

Firearm deaths per 100,000 residents.

Deaths involving a firearm per 100,000 residents, using County Health Rankings’ multi-year rate from NCHS death certificates. This includes suicide, homicide, unintentional injury, legal intervention and undetermined intent; it is not a gun-crime rate, a count of shootings, or a measure of incidents occurring inside the county. Deaths are assigned to the resident’s home county. Counties with small source counts are suppressed and shown as unavailable, never as zero. Updated annually.

  1. 1Massachusetts4
  2. 2Hawaii4
  3. 3Rhode Island5
  4. 4New Jersey5
  5. 5New York5
  6. 6Connecticut6
  7. 7California8
  8. 8Minnesota9
  9. 9Iowa10
  10. 10New Hampshire11
  11. 11Nebraska11
  12. 12Washington12
  13. 13Wisconsin12
  14. 14Maine12
  15. 15Vermont12
  16. 16Delaware13
  17. 17Utah13
  18. 18Illinois13
  19. 19Maryland13
  20. 20Virginia14
  21. 21Pennsylvania14
  22. 22North Dakota14
  23. 23South Dakota14
  24. 24Florida14
  25. 25Texas14
  26. 26Michigan14
  27. 27Oregon14
  28. 28Ohio15
  29. 29North Carolina16
  30. 30Kansas16
  31. 31Indiana16
  32. 32Colorado17
  33. 33Idaho17
  34. 34Arizona18
  35. 35West Virginia18
  36. 36Georgia18
  37. 37Nevada18
  38. 38Kentucky18
  39. 39Oklahoma19
  40. 40Tennessee20
  41. 41South Carolina20
  42. 42Arkansas21
  43. 43Montana22
  44. 44District of Columbia22
  45. 45Missouri22
  46. 46Alaska23
  47. 47Alabama24
  48. 48Wyoming24
  49. 49New Mexico24
  50. 50Louisiana25
  51. 51Mississippi27
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Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps; NCHS mortality files. · How this is built