Noble County, Indiana: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in Noble County in 2024.

FARS records 63 deaths in 57 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.3 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Indiana in the same years is 13.0.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Noble County was number 46 of 92 counties of Indiana.

Deaths in Noble County fell by 16.0% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (75) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (63).

In the counties of Indiana the deaths rose by 8.8% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 96.4% of the fatal crashes in Noble County with a known setting were rural, against 57.5% in Indiana.

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 Noble 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.Noble County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	6	6	1 or 2
2023	0	0	0
2022	6	6	0
2021	10	8	1 or 2
2020	5	5	0
2019	13	10	4
2018	7	6	1 or 2
2017	7	7	0
2016	4	4	1 or 2
2015	5	5	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	63	57	10

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 19 (1987)2024: 6

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

Table 2.Noble County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	6	6
2023	0	0
2022	6	6
2021	10	8
2020	5	5
2019	13	10
2018	7	6
2017	7	7
2016	4	4
2015	5	5
2014	7	7
2013	9	8
2012	1 or 2	1 or 2
2011	9	9
2010	9	8
2009	4	4
2008	6	4
2007	1 or 2	1 or 2
2006	9	9
2005	18	13
2004	11	8
2003	3	3
2002	7	5
2001	6	6
2000	16	13
1999	12	11
1998	12	11
1997	15	13
1996	11	10
1995	18	15
1994	11	9
1993	9	8
1992	15	10
1991	11	10
1990	8	8
1989	11	11
1988	10	6
1987	19	16
1986	4	3
1985	8	7
1984	7	6
1983	6	6
1982	9	8
1981	12	11
1980	16	14
1979	10	10
1978	18	14
1977	17	14
1976	16	12
1975	14	11

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.Noble County beside Indiana and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Noble County	Indiana	United States
2024	12.5	12.0	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.3	13.0	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. Noble County had 47,946 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Noble County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Indiana
A driver recorded as drinkingof 57 fatal crashes	10	57 fatal crashes	17.5%	19.6%
A speeding-related driverof 57 fatal crashes	11	57 fatal crashes	19.3%	25.7%
No restraint usedof 34 occupant deaths with restraint use known	18	34 occupant deathswith restraint use known	52.9%	45.9%
Pedestriansof 63 deaths	5	63 deaths	7.9%	11.3%
Bicyclistsof 63 deaths	4	63 deaths	6.3%	2.2%
Motorcyclistsof 63 deaths	9	63 deaths	14.3%	14.9%
On a rural roadof 56 fatal crashes with the condition reported	54	56 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	96.4%	57.5%
In the darkof 57 fatal crashes with the condition reported	23	57 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	40.4%	44.6%

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.Noble 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	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	3
Monday	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	8
Tuesday	0	5	5	1 or 2	12
Wednesday	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
Thursday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	8
Friday	3	3	6	1 or 2	14
Saturday	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
All days	9	15	20	13	57

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.Noble County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Indiana
Interstate	0	0.0%	11.1%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	1.6%
Other principal arterial	9	16.1%	27.4%
Minor arterial	6	10.7%	20.7%
Major collector	24	42.9%	20.2%
Minor collector	5	8.9%	4.0%
Local	12	21.4%	14.9%
Not reported	1 or 2	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.Noble County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	32
Dark, not lighted	21
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Noble County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	40
Cloudy	11
Rain	3
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	1 or 2
Other or not reported	0

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Noble County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Noble	In all of Indiana
State Route 3	State highway	3	58
State Route 5	State highway	3	21
State Route 9	State highway	3	50
US Route 6	US highway	1 or 2	56
US Route 33	US highway	7	39

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 Indiana

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Noble County on the county map of Indiana

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

Fewer than 107 counties
10 to 14.926 counties
15 to 19.934 counties
20 to 29.923 counties
30 or more2 counties
Noble County: 13.3

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 Indiana

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Noble County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Allen County	Indiana	41	385	10.1
DeKalb County	Indiana	9	67	15.4
Elkhart County	Indiana	32	278	13.5
Kosciusko County	Indiana	17	137	17.2
LaGrange County	Indiana	9	71	17.7
Whitley County	Indiana	6	60	17.6

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Indiana have a population nearest to that of Noble 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.
Indiana Criminal Justice InstituteThe highway safety office of Indiana.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Noble County, Indiana: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/in/noble/. 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 Noble in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 75 deaths in Noble County from 2005 to 2014. It records 63 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Noble in 2024?

The rate of Noble County in 2024 was 12.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Indiana was 12.0. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 10 of 57 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 Noble?

5 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 18 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.