Fatal crash rate in Kerr County, Texas

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

Kerr County, Texas2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

14.8fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 8 fatal crashes in Kerr County, Texas, where 54,014 people lived. That is 14.8 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 9 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 20.6.

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Texas 12.1

US 10.7

Kerr County 14.8

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

Per 100,000: 8 fatal crashes ÷ 54,014 residents × 100,000 = 14.8
Five-year: 55 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 267,609 resident-years × 100,000 = 20.6
Same year: Texas: 3,774 ÷ 31,318,578 = 12.1 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

US 10.7

19.0

22.6

24.2

22.3

14.8

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	10	13	52,696	19.0
2021	12	14	53,195	22.6
2022	13	13	53,782	24.2
2023	12	16	53,922	22.3
2024	8	9	54,014	14.8

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 55 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Kerr County, Texas over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road type	Crashes	Share
Interstate	16	29%
Other freeway or expressway	0	0%
Other principal arterial	17	31%
Minor arterial	8	15%
Major collector	12	22%
Minor collector	0	0%
Local road	2	4%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%
Rural	42	76%
Urban	13	24%

Time of day	Crashes	Share
Midnight to 5:59 am	6	11%
6 am to 11:59 am	15	27%
Noon to 5:59 pm	19	35%
6 pm to 11:59 pm	15	27%
Hour unknown	0	0%

Light	Crashes	Share
Daylight	31	56%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)	21	38%
Dark, lighted	0	0%
Dawn or dusk	2	4%
Unknown or not reported	1	2%

Weather	Crashes	Share
Clear	38	69%
Cloudy	10	18%
Rain	5	9%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1	2%
Fog, smog or smoke	1	2%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other	0	0%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%

Involving	Crashes	Share
A pedestrian	4	7%
A bicyclist or other cyclist	1	2%
A speeding-related vehicle	14	25%
A driver police reported as drinking	12	22%

Most-named roads	Crashes
I-10	16
SR-173	6
SR-16	5
SR-39	4
SR-16/MEDINA HWY	3

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.