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Fatal crash rate · Louisiana

Fatal crash rate in Iberia Parish, Louisiana

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

Iberia Parish, Louisiana2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

17.8fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 12 fatal crashes in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, where 67,573 people lived. That is 17.8 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 12 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 16.3.

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

Per 100,000
12 fatal crashes ÷ 67,573 residents × 100,000 = 17.8
Five-year
56 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 343,151 resident-years × 100,000 = 16.3
Same year
Louisiana: 705 ÷ 4,614,878 = 15.3 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashesDeathsPopulationPer 100,000
2020171770,05424.3
2021101169,36614.4
202281068,39711.7
202391167,76113.3
2024121267,57317.8

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 56 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Iberia Parish, Louisiana over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate00%
Other freeway or expressway00%
Other principal arterial1018%
Minor arterial1221%
Major collector1425%
Minor collector47%
Local road1629%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural1934%
Urban3766%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am1018%
6 am to 11:59 am1018%
Noon to 5:59 pm1730%
6 pm to 11:59 pm1730%
Hour unknown24%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight2138%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)2850%
Dark, lighted24%
Dawn or dusk35%
Unknown or not reported24%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear4275%
Cloudy916%
Rain35%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain00%
Fog, smog or smoke12%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other00%
Unknown or not reported12%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian1221%
A bicyclist or other cyclist916%
A speeding-related vehicle1120%
A driver police reported as drinking1120%
Most-named roadsCrashes
SR-149
US-907
SR-885
US-90 FRONTAGE ROAD2
SR-6772

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.