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Dangerous by Design

State of the States

Uncover the urgent truths behind America’s rising pedestrian fatalities and explore transformative solutions to create safer, more inclusive streets for everyone. Join us in reimagining our roadways—prioritizing people over cars to protect lives.

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Levels of Risk

Who faces more danger in each state

As noted in the metro/national release, people of color, particularly Black and American Indian/Alaska Native populations, are disproportionately killed while walking compared to the rate of death for all Americans. But this burden is even more disproportionate in some states.

Methodology

We report rates as the annual average deaths per 100,000 population for each group over the 5-year period (2018-2022). Some states had zero reported pedestrian fatalities for specific racial groups. Other states had very high rates primarily due to having a low population (eg. Wyoming has a Black pedestrian fatality rate of 13.3 deaths per 100,000 people despite only having 3 black deaths, or 0.6 deaths per year, against a Black population of only 4,500). Average deaths by race and ethnicity that are higher than the overall average death rate for each state are marked in red.

Dangerous by Design Rank

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State

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Overall Avg ped deaths/100k people per year (2018-2022)

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Avg American Indian/Alaska Nativ ped deaths/100k people per year (2018-2022)

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Avg Black/African American ped deaths/100k people per year (2018-2022)

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Avg Hispanic/Latinx ped deaths/100k people per year (2018-2022)

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Avg Asian/Pacific Islander ped deaths/100k people per year (2018-2022)

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Avg White, Non-Hispanic ped deaths/100k people per year (2018-2022)

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New Mexico

4.17

13.10

5.79

2.85

4.35

2.71

Florida

3.43

7.57

4.19

3.09

1.34

3.58

Louisiana

3.41

2.04

5.33

1.96

3.77

2.64

South Carolina

3.41

3.88

5.30

3.14

0.94

2.89

Arizona

3.38

8.91

5.00

2.92

1.54

2.68

Mississippi

2.93

3.74

3.71

0.82

1.40

2.64

Delaware

2.82

11.12

4.96

2.43

2.44

California

2.68

8.40

5.67

2.31

1.25

2.28

Georgia

2.66

8.79

3.96

1.95

1.34

1.90

Nevada

2.49

2.72

4.81

1.89

2.34

2.56

Tennessee

2.44

4.96

3.10

1.26

1.83

Texas

2.44

3.24

3.53

2.61

0.58

2.29

Arkansas

2.41

3.38

4.97

2.14

0.86

2.08

Hawaii

2.41

1.50

1.63

1.85

2.29

Alabama

2.27

3.06

2.32

1.74

2.04

North Carolina

2.25

5.68

3.61

1.83

0.87

1.88

Oklahoma

2.20

4.61

4.47

1.87

1.32

1.95

Maryland

2.10

2.06

1.28

0.40

1.49

Oregon

2.09

12.13

3.69

1.89

1.73

2.08

New Jersey

2.00

3.40

2.05

1.46

1.75

Missouri

1.88

3.13

5.06

1.71

1.11

1.48

Kentucky

1.80

2.93

2.11

0.88

1.74

Alaska

1.69

6.83

0.86

1.07

Connecticut

1.62

2.47

1.88

0.47

1.33

Michigan

1.59

3.99

4.02

1.49

0.98

1.22

Colorado

1.56

11.30

4.52

2.10

1.43

1.22

Washington

1.56

10.61

2.41

1.37

1.22

1.41

Montana

1.54

8.84

3.81

0.87

1.17

Virginia

1.51

2.45

1.55

0.95

1.19

Indiana

1.50

3.23

0.78

0.95

1.23

Wyoming

1.45

11.13

13.37

0.99

1.22

Illinois

1.43

3.95

3.22

1.23

0.74

1.11

West Virginia

1.43

2.66

0.61

1.49

1.44

New York

1.37

0.67

0.59

0.37

0.61

Pennsylvania

1.30

1.75

1.16

0.64

0.85

Ohio

1.26

2.61

1.58

1.21

1.06

South Dakota

1.30

9.49

1.04

0.51

1.58

0.58

Utah

1.20

5.97

4.64

1.54

1.31

1.00

Kansas

1.12

4.28

2.41

0.92

1.06

Massachusetts

1.11

2.96

1.74

0.89

0.83

1.09

Maine

1.04

3.29

0.99

Nebraska

1.02

4.95

1.97

1.13

0.41

0.76

Wisconsin

0.98

3.85

3.26

1.30

0.48

0.77

Vermont

0.96

1.05

North Dakota

0.93

5.84

0.71

Idaho

0.86

2.47

1.07

0.83

0.84

New Hampshire

0.86

2.16

0.34

0.92

Rhode Island

0.84

2.74

0.66

1.08

0.76

Minnesota

0.81

7.75

1.38

0.67

0.84

0.68

Iowa

0.74

0.17

0.19

0.77

0.23

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided support for data analysis and synthesis used in the report under cooperative agreement OT18-1802 supporting the Active People, Healthy Nation^SM Initiative, a national initiative led by the CDC to help 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027.

Learn more: https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/activepeoplehealthynation/index.html. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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