US Counties With the Lowest Suicide Rates
2,049 US counties ranked by suicide rate, from lowest to highest. First are Bronx County, NY (5.4), Essex County, NJ (5.54) and Kings County, NY (5.61). The middle one of the 2,049 has 18.
What this measures
Suicides per 100,000 people, adjusted so places with older or younger populations can be compared fairly. 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | deaths per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 6.24 |
| 2 | New Jersey | 7.63 |
| 3 | New York | 8.2 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | 8.64 |
| 5 | Maryland | 9.78 |
| 6 | Rhode Island | 9.91 |
| 7 | Connecticut | 10.4 |
| 8 | California | 10.4 |
| 9 | Illinois | 11.1 |
| 10 | Delaware | 12 |
| 11 | Virginia | 13.3 |
| 12 | North Carolina | 13.4 |
| 13 | Texas | 13.8 |
| 14 | Minnesota | 13.9 |
| 15 | Pennsylvania | 13.9 |
| 16 | Hawaii | 14.1 |
| 17 | Florida | 14.2 |
| 18 | Mississippi | 14.4 |
| 19 | Michigan | 14.4 |
| 20 | Georgia | 14.6 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 14.7 |
| 22 | Ohio | 14.7 |
| 23 | Louisiana | 14.8 |
| 24 | Nebraska | 15 |
| 25 | Washington | 15.4 |
| 26 | Indiana | 15.6 |
| 27 | South Carolina | 15.7 |
| 28 | Alabama | 16.1 |
| 29 | Tennessee | 16.9 |
| 30 | New Hampshire | 17 |
| 31 | Iowa | 17.2 |
| 32 | Kentucky | 17.5 |
| 33 | Vermont | 18.2 |
| 34 | Maine | 18.3 |
| 35 | Missouri | 18.7 |
| 36 | Arkansas | 18.8 |
| 37 | Arizona | 19.1 |
| 38 | Kansas | 19.1 |
| 39 | Oregon | 19.3 |
| 40 | West Virginia | 19.6 |
| 41 | North Dakota | 19.8 |
| 42 | Nevada | 20.2 |
| 43 | South Dakota | 21.2 |
| 44 | Oklahoma | 21.2 |
| 45 | Utah | 21.3 |
| 46 | Colorado | 21.8 |
| 47 | Idaho | 22 |
| 48 | New Mexico | 24.5 |
| 49 | Montana | 27.6 |
| 50 | Alaska | 27.8 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 28.6 |
More on suicide rate
- US Counties With the Highest Suicide Rates
- 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.