US Counties With the Highest Alcohol-involved Share of Driving Deaths
2,401 US counties ranked by alcohol-involved share of driving deaths, from highest to lowest. First are Camas County, ID (1%), Edwards County, KS (1%) and Keweenaw County, MI (1%). The middle one of the 2,401 has 0.292%.
What this measures
The percentage of driving deaths that involved alcohol. Source: County Health Rankings.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montana | 0.448% |
| 2 | Rhode Island | 0.436% |
| 3 | New Hampshire | 0.372% |
| 4 | North Dakota | 0.371% |
| 5 | Maine | 0.364% |
| 6 | Colorado | 0.362% |
| 7 | Alaska | 0.344% |
| 8 | South Dakota | 0.34% |
| 9 | South Carolina | 0.333% |
| 10 | Vermont | 0.33% |
| 11 | Wisconsin | 0.329% |
| 12 | Idaho | 0.327% |
| 13 | Nebraska | 0.323% |
| 14 | Hawaii | 0.323% |
| 15 | Wyoming | 0.323% |
| 16 | Ohio | 0.321% |
| 17 | Washington | 0.32% |
| 18 | Louisiana | 0.308% |
| 19 | Minnesota | 0.306% |
| 20 | Connecticut | 0.305% |
| 21 | Massachusetts | 0.302% |
| 22 | Virginia | 0.298% |
| 23 | Maryland | 0.295% |
| 24 | Nevada | 0.292% |
| 25 | Michigan | 0.289% |
| 26 | New Mexico | 0.288% |
| 27 | Missouri | 0.281% |
| 28 | Oregon | 0.272% |
| 29 | Arkansas | 0.268% |
| 30 | Oklahoma | 0.265% |
| 31 | Illinois | 0.264% |
| 32 | West Virginia | 0.256% |
| 33 | California | 0.256% |
| 34 | Kentucky | 0.256% |
| 35 | Iowa | 0.256% |
| 36 | Pennsylvania | 0.254% |
| 37 | Texas | 0.254% |
| 38 | Alabama | 0.25% |
| 39 | North Carolina | 0.246% |
| 40 | Tennessee | 0.246% |
| 41 | Delaware | 0.24% |
| 42 | New Jersey | 0.235% |
| 43 | Utah | 0.231% |
| 44 | District of Columbia | 0.227% |
| 45 | New York | 0.219% |
| 46 | Florida | 0.211% |
| 47 | Kansas | 0.21% |
| 48 | Georgia | 0.201% |
| 49 | Arizona | 0.195% |
| 50 | Mississippi | 0.187% |
| 51 | Indiana | 0.179% |
More on alcohol-involved share of driving deaths
- US Counties With the Lowest Alcohol-involved Share of Driving Deaths
- Alcohol-involved share of driving deaths by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.