Fatal crash rate in Thomas County, Georgia

Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Thomas County, Georgia, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.

Thomas County, Georgia2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

30.3fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 14 fatal crashes in Thomas County, Georgia, where 46,243 people lived. That is 30.3 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 16 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 20.9.

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Georgia 11.7

US 10.7

Thomas County 30.3

The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is Thomas County; the white posts are Georgia and the United States.

Per 100,000: 14 fatal crashes ÷ 46,243 residents × 100,000 = 30.3
Five-year: 48 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 229,261 resident-years × 100,000 = 20.9
Same year: Georgia: 1,312 ÷ 11,204,208 = 11.7 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

US 10.7

19.7

19.6

11.0

24.0

30.3

20202021202220232024

Bars: this place, fatal crashes per 100,000 residents. Dashed line: the United States in the latest year. Source: NHTSA FARS and Census population estimates, each year.

Year	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Population	Per 100,000
2020	9	10	45,784	19.7
2021	9	9	45,852	19.6
2022	5	5	45,592	11.0
2023	11	11	45,790	24.0
2024	14	16	46,243	30.3

2024 is NHTSA’s Annual Report File and will be revised when the final file replaces it. Populations are July 1 estimates, Census Vintage 2025.

What the record says about those crashes, 2020 to 2024

Every figure is a count of the 48 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Thomas County, Georgia over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road type	Crashes	Share
Interstate	0	0%
Other freeway or expressway	0	0%
Other principal arterial	21	44%
Minor arterial	9	19%
Major collector	10	21%
Minor collector	2	4%
Local road	6	13%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%
Rural	27	56%
Urban	21	44%

Time of day	Crashes	Share
Midnight to 5:59 am	6	13%
6 am to 11:59 am	12	25%
Noon to 5:59 pm	14	29%
6 pm to 11:59 pm	16	33%
Hour unknown	0	0%

Light	Crashes	Share
Daylight	24	50%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)	19	40%
Dark, lighted	3	6%
Dawn or dusk	2	4%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%

Weather	Crashes	Share
Clear	30	63%
Cloudy	14	29%
Rain	4	8%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0	0%
Fog, smog or smoke	0	0%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other	0	0%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%

Involving	Crashes	Share
A pedestrian	11	23%
A bicyclist or other cyclist	0	0%
A speeding-related vehicle	15	31%
A driver police reported as drinking	4	8%

Most-named roads	Crashes
SR-300	5
SR-38	5
SR-3	5
SR-122	3
SR-188	2

Road type is FARS FUNC_SYS; speeding is any vehicle coded SPEEDREL 2 to 5; drinking is any driver coded DRINKING = 1 (police-reported, not a blood-alcohol test). Road names are the trafficway strings as the police coded them, counted as written, so the same road can appear under two spellings.

How this is counted

Fatal crashes are rows in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) file FARS2024NationalCSV.zip, accident.csv, one row per crash on a public road in which someone died within 30 days. Deaths are the FATALS field. Counties are the FARS STATE and COUNTY codes joined to Census FIPS codes.
Population is the Census Bureau’s July 1 estimate for the same year, county totals, Vintage 2025. Rate per 100,000 = crashes ÷ population × 100,000.
The five-year average is total crashes over the years with both inputs ÷ total population over those years × 100,000, the rolling form in 23 CFR 490.207.
What it cannot say. FARS has no injury-only or property-damage crashes, no congestion, and nothing about any one driver, trip or road’s risk. A crash is counted where it happened, not where the people lived. Rates are not ranked here; comparing two places means comparing both sets of inputs.

Informational only, not professional advice. Last reviewed: October 2026. Data snapshot built 2026-10-28.