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Fatal crash rate · Texas

Fatal crash rate in Tom Green County, Texas

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

Tom Green County, Texas2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

13.3fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 16 fatal crashes in Tom Green County, Texas, where 120,207 people lived. That is 13.3 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 17 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 13.5.

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

Per 100,000
16 fatal crashes ÷ 120,207 residents × 100,000 = 13.3
Five-year
81 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 597,977 resident-years × 100,000 = 13.5
Same year
Texas: 3,774 ÷ 31,318,578 = 12.1 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashesDeathsPopulationPer 100,000
20201516120,18512.5
20212024119,27916.8
20221515118,97912.6
20231517119,32712.6
20241617120,20713.3

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

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate00%
Other freeway or expressway79%
Other principal arterial3442%
Minor arterial1316%
Major collector1417%
Minor collector22%
Local road1114%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural3847%
Urban4353%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am1923%
6 am to 11:59 am1822%
Noon to 5:59 pm1923%
6 pm to 11:59 pm2531%
Hour unknown00%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight3644%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)3138%
Dark, lighted1012%
Dawn or dusk34%
Unknown or not reported11%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear7593%
Cloudy45%
Rain22%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain00%
Fog, smog or smoke00%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other00%
Unknown or not reported00%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian911%
A bicyclist or other cyclist34%
A speeding-related vehicle3746%
A driver police reported as drinking1923%
Most-named roadsCrashes
US-8715
US-679
US-2779
US-87/BRYANT BLVD3
FM 21053

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.