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U.S. states ranked by firearm homicide deaths

All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Homicide deaths by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

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Data last updated
2026-10-27

National value: 15,364 (United States).

Washington: 235Idaho: 26Montana: 25North Dakota: 11Minnesota: 142Michigan: 405Ohio: 577Pennsylvania: 503New York: 362Vermont: 12New Hampshire: 11Maine: 16Arizona: 329California: 1,204New Mexico: 206Texas: 1,450Louisiana: 562Mississippi: 469Alabama: 562Florida: 889Georgia: 815South Carolina: 417North Carolina: 688Virginia: 395District of Columbia: 134Maryland: 404Delaware: 50New Jersey: 164Connecticut: 69Rhode Island: 12Massachusetts: 96Oregon: 120Utah: 58Wyoming: 11Nevada: 170Colorado: 209South Dakota: 29Nebraska: 43Kansas: 123Oklahoma: 204Iowa: 67Missouri: 460Wisconsin: 207Illinois: 872Kentucky: 265Arkansas: 211Tennessee: 578West Virginia: 64Indiana: 380Alaska: 33Hawaii: 20

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 11 to 33
  • Group 2: 33 to 134
  • Group 3: 134 to 265
  • Group 4: 265 to 503
  • Highest: 503 to 1,450
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

1Texas1,450
2California1,204
3Florida889
4Illinois872
5Georgia815
6North Carolina688
7Tennessee578
8Ohio577
9Alabama562
9Louisiana562
11Pennsylvania503
12Mississippi469
13Missouri460
14South Carolina417
15Michigan405
16Maryland404
17Virginia395
18Indiana380
19New York362
20Arizona329
21Kentucky265
22Washington235
23Arkansas211
24Colorado209
25Wisconsin207
26New Mexico206
27Oklahoma204
28Nevada170
29New Jersey164
30Minnesota142
31District of Columbia134
32Kansas123
33Oregon120
34Massachusetts96
35Connecticut69
36Iowa67
37West Virginia64
38Utah58
39Delaware50
40Nebraska43
41Alaska33
42South Dakota29
43Idaho26
44Montana25
45Hawaii20
46Maine16
47Rhode Island12
47Vermont12
49New Hampshire11
49North Dakota11
49Wyoming11

Source: CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence – State, data.cdc.gov dataset fpsi-y8tj (intents All_Homicide and FA_Homicide; U.S. total from the National dataset t6u2-f84c; data as of 2026-06-22). Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by firearm homicide deaths (2024). Data: CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence – State (fpsi-y8tj); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-27. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-firearm-homicide-deaths/

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