State Firearm Death Rates, Ranked by Rate, 2021


Rank
State		 Rate per
100,000 population
1 Mississippi 32.61
2 Louisiana 28.42
3 New Mexico 27.32
4 Wyoming 26.78
5 Alabama 26.09
6 Montana 25.36
7 Alaska 24.84
8 Arkansas 23.07
9 Missouri 22.92
10 Tennessee 22.49
11 South Carolina 21.89
12 Kentucky 21.00
13 Oklahoma 20.97
14 Georgia 20.37
15 Nevada 20.13
16 Arizona 18.76
17 Indiana 18.38
18 Colorado 18.31
19 West Virginia 17.89
20 North Carolina 17.43
21 Kansas 17.14
22 North Dakota 16.52
23 Idaho 16.26
24 Ohio 16.22
25 Oregon 15.78
26 Delaware 15.75
27 Illinois 15.74
28 Texas 15.62
29 Michigan 15.36
30 Maryland 14.84
31 Pennsylvania 14.69
32 Virginia 14.44
33 Florida 14.43
34 South Dakota 14.30
35 Utah 13.48
36 Wisconsin 13.45
37 Maine 12.97
38 Vermont 12.86
39 Washington 11.58
40 Iowa 11.40
41 Nebraska 10.18
42 Minnesota 10.04
43 California 9.11
44 New Hampshire 8.86
45 Connecticut 6.88
46 Rhode Island 5.84
47 New York 5.43
48 New Jersey 5.13
49 Hawaii 4.93
50 Massachusetts 3.54
. National Firearm Death Rate 14.71

*Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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