US Counties With the Lowest Firearm Suicide Rates
2,220 US counties ranked by firearm suicide rate, from lowest to highest. First are New York County, NY (0.529), Queens County, NY (0.69) and Kings County, NY (0.711). The middle one of the 2,220 has 11.4.
What this measures
Suicides by gun per 100,000 residents a year, 2018-2023. 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | per 100,000 a year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 1.55 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | 2.05 |
| 3 | New Jersey | 2.17 |
| 4 | New York | 2.37 |
| 5 | Hawaii | 2.79 |
| 6 | Rhode Island | 2.83 |
| 7 | Connecticut | 3.34 |
| 8 | California | 4.11 |
| 9 | Maryland | 4.49 |
| 10 | Illinois | 4.85 |
| 11 | Delaware | 6.47 |
| 12 | Minnesota | 6.56 |
| 13 | Pennsylvania | 7.82 |
| 14 | Nebraska | 7.97 |
| 15 | Wisconsin | 7.97 |
| 16 | Michigan | 7.99 |
| 17 | Virginia | 8.12 |
| 18 | Iowa | 8.24 |
| 19 | Texas | 8.27 |
| 20 | Washington | 8.3 |
| 21 | Ohio | 8.41 |
| 22 | North Carolina | 8.56 |
| 23 | Florida | 8.71 |
| 24 | New Hampshire | 9.09 |
| 25 | Georgia | 9.54 |
| 26 | Indiana | 9.61 |
| 27 | Louisiana | 9.93 |
| 28 | South Carolina | 10.3 |
| 29 | Mississippi | 10.5 |
| 30 | South Dakota | 10.5 |
| 31 | Vermont | 10.7 |
| 32 | Kansas | 10.9 |
| 33 | Maine | 10.9 |
| 34 | Utah | 11 |
| 35 | Oregon | 11.1 |
| 36 | North Dakota | 11.3 |
| 37 | Tennessee | 11.4 |
| 38 | Kentucky | 11.4 |
| 39 | Alabama | 11.7 |
| 40 | Colorado | 11.8 |
| 41 | Missouri | 11.9 |
| 42 | Arizona | 12 |
| 43 | Arkansas | 12 |
| 44 | Nevada | 12.5 |
| 45 | West Virginia | 12.8 |
| 46 | Oklahoma | 13.1 |
| 47 | New Mexico | 13.9 |
| 48 | Idaho | 14.3 |
| 49 | Alaska | 16.7 |
| 50 | Montana | 18.1 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 20.3 |
More on firearm suicide rate
- US Counties With the Highest Firearm Suicide Rates
- Firearm suicide rate 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.