Kendall County, Illinois: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 12 deaths in 12 fatal crashes in Kendall County in 2024.

FARS records 91 deaths in 89 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 6.9 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Illinois in the same years is 9.0.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Kendall County was number 24 of 102 counties of Illinois.

Deaths in Kendall County fell by 9.0% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (100) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (91).

In the counties of Illinois the deaths rose by 8.4% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 16.9% of the fatal crashes in Kendall County with a known setting were rural, against 33.6% in Illinois.

To qualify as a FARS case, the crash had to involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and must have resulted in the death of a motorist or a non-motorist within 30 days of the crash.
The set of first files, known as the Annual Report File (ARF), is released following the crash year. The ARF is replaced about a year later with a final file, which contains additional cases or updates to cases that had become available after the ARF was released.
NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on the FARS 2024 annual file. NHTSA released it on 1 Apr 2026. NHTSA can revise the counts in the final file. Release dates

Figure 1.Deaths in Kendall County by year, 2015 to 2024

Table 1 has the numbers. Go to the table

Since the last update: no figure of this county has a change on record.

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

Table 1.Kendall County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	12	12	4
2023	7	7	1 or 2
2022	6	6	3
2021	21	20	7
2020	7	6	1 or 2
2019	7	7	1 or 2
2018	6	6	0
2017	10	10	4
2016	6	6	1 or 2
2015	9	9	3
2015 to 2024	91	89	28

Each year from 1975

Figure 2.Deaths in Kendall County by year, 1975 to 2024

Tallest column: 21 (1994)2024: 12

The columns with a stronger shade are the years 2015 to 2024.

Table 2.Kendall County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	12	12
2023	7	7
2022	6	6
2021	21	20
2020	7	6
2019	7	7
2018	6	6
2017	10	10
2016	6	6
2015	9	9
2014	9	9
2013	6	6
2012	13	11
2011	7	7
2010	6	6
2009	7	6
2008	12	11
2007	14	10
2006	9	8
2005	17	16
2004	17	13
2003	19	16
2002	17	15
2001	13	11
2000	6	4
1999	13	11
1998	11	10
1997	11	9
1996	10	9
1995	9	8
1994	21	16
1993	15	10
1992	7	6
1991	10	7
1990	9	7
1989	12	7
1988	16	14
1987	9	8
1986	5	4
1985	6	6
1984	10	10
1983	11	11
1982	8	8
1981	15	13
1980	7	7
1979	11	10
1978	12	10
1977	15	15
1976	12	11
1975	7	6

Note: a count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2". A death is in FARS when it occurs in 30 days or less after the crash.

Rate for each 100,000 residents

Table 3.Kendall County beside Illinois and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Kendall County	Illinois	United States
2024	8.4	9.3	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	6.9	9.0	11.8

Note: the rate divides the deaths in the county by its residents. Persons who do not live in the county are in the deaths, not in the residents.

Population: Census Bureau estimates, vintage 2025. Kendall County had 143,125 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Kendall County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Illinois
A driver recorded as drinkingof 89 fatal crashes	28	89 fatal crashes	31.5%	27.2%
A speeding-related driverof 89 fatal crashes	31	89 fatal crashes	34.8%	36.5%
No restraint usedof 56 occupant deaths with restraint use known	21	56 occupant deathswith restraint use known	37.5%	46.8%
Pedestriansof 91 deaths	12	91 deaths	13.2%	15.5%
Bicyclistsof 91 deaths	0	91 deaths	0.0%	2.5%
Motorcyclistsof 91 deaths	15	91 deaths	16.5%	13.3%
On a rural roadof 89 fatal crashes with the condition reported	15	89 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	16.9%	33.6%
In the darkof 89 fatal crashes with the condition reported	38	89 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	42.7%	48.7%

Note: FARS records a driver as drinking when police reported alcohol involvement or a test of the driver was positive for alcohol. It is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure, which uses a blood alcohol concentration of .08 g/dL or higher. One crash can be in two or more rows. NHTSA's definitions

Note that alcohol data is often missing. For that reason, this data element may under-count the actual number of drinking drivers.

NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

Weekday, time and road class

Table 5.Kendall County: fatal crashes by weekday and time of day, 2015 to 2024
Weekday	Midnight to 6 a.m.	6 a.m. to noon	Noon to 6 p.m.	6 p.m. to midnight	All
Sunday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	5	13
Monday	1 or 2	4	6	3	15
Tuesday	0	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	7
Wednesday	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	3	10
Thursday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	4	10
Friday	1 or 2	6	1 or 2	4	14
Saturday	3	1 or 2	7	7	19
All days	12	20	28	28	88

Note: a cell with a stronger shade has a larger count. The table has the fatal crashes with a known hour and weekday.

Table 6.Kendall County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Illinois
Interstate	1 or 2	1.1%	14.2%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	0.7%
Other principal arterial	36	40.4%	29.1%
Minor arterial	27	30.3%	24.5%
Major collector	12	13.5%	17.0%
Minor collector	3	3.4%	2.0%
Local	10	11.2%	12.5%
Not reported	0	n/a	n/a

Note: the classes are those of the Federal Highway Administration. The shares are of the crashes with a reported class. Road function classes

Light condition and weather

Table 7.Kendall County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	48
Dark, not lighted	30
Dark, lighted	7
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Kendall County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	74
Cloudy	1 or 2
Rain	7
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
Fog, smog or smoke	3
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	1 or 2

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Kendall County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Kendall	In all of Illinois
Interstate 80	Interstate	1 or 2	133
State Route 31	State highway	1 or 2	40
State Route 47	State highway	10	50
State Route 71	State highway	12	23
US Route 30	US highway	5	101
US Route 34	US highway	8	67
US Route 52	US highway	4	42

Note: the table has each route with a page that has a fatal crash in the county, in name order. Local streets and county roads have no page. Their crashes are in the county totals. All routes in Illinois

Adjacent counties

These lists are for navigation. They are in name order.

Figure 3.Kendall County on the county map of Illinois

Deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year, 2015 to 2024

Fewer than 1016 counties
10 to 14.926 counties
15 to 19.927 counties
20 to 29.928 counties
30 or more5 counties
Kendall County: 6.9

The limits of the classes are the same for every state. A county with few residents can show a high rate from few deaths. A class is not a judgement of a county. The full map and the table of counties of Illinois

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Kendall County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
DeKalb County	Illinois	9	109	10.6
DuPage County	Illinois	56	424	4.6
Grundy County	Illinois	9	88	16.9
Kane County	Illinois	30	344	6.6
LaSalle County	Illinois	29	186	17.1
Will County	Illinois	58	563	8.1

Source of the list: Census Bureau county adjacency file, 2026 edition.

Counties of similar population

These counties of Illinois have a population nearest to that of Kendall County. The list is for navigation and is in name order. The number is the deaths from 2015 to 2024.

Official channels

NHTSA Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool (FIRST)NHTSA's query tool for FARS counts.
NHTSA FARS EncyclopediaNHTSA's tables of FARS data.
Illinois Department of TransportationThe highway safety office of Illinois.

These links go to the sites of the agencies. They were checked on 2 Oct 2026.

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Kendall County, Illinois: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/il/kendall/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to 31 Dec 2024.

The address of this page does not change.

Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national files of 1975 to 2024. The factors use the vehicle and person files from 2015. Residents: Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, vintage 2025. Map: Census Bureau cartographic boundary file, 2021 edition. Data to 31 Dec 2024. The figures are totals. No page of this site is about one crash or one person.

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

How many deaths did FARS record in Kendall in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 100 deaths in Kendall County from 2005 to 2014. It records 91 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Kendall in 2024?

The rate of Kendall County in 2024 was 8.4 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Illinois was 9.3. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

How many fatal crashes in Kendall had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 28 of 89 fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024. This count is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure. NHTSA says that alcohol data is often missing, so the count may be too low.

How many fatal crashes did FARS record on signed routes in Kendall?

7 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 41 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.