US Counties With the Highest Firearm Share of Suicides, Standardised

2,220 US counties ranked by firearm share of suicides, standardised, from highest to lowest. First are Gates County, NC (181), Hale County, AL (178) and Harrison County, MO (177). The middle one of the 2,220 has 113.

What this measures

The gun share of suicides compared with what you would expect if each sex, age and race group here used guns at its national rate. 100 means it matches what the local population mix would predict. Above 100 means more gun suicide than that. It is the best county measure of gun access available, and it closely tracks RAND's state estimates of gun ownership. Source: CDC WONDER mortality; RAND firearm ownership database.

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.

More on firearm share of suicides, standardised

• US Counties With the Lowest Firearm Share of Suicides, Standardised
• Firearm share of suicides, standardised 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.