Hunterdon County, New Jersey: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 9 deaths in 9 fatal crashes in Hunterdon County in 2024.

FARS records 75 deaths in 73 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 5.9 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of New Jersey in the same years is 6.7.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Hunterdon County was number 21 of 21 counties of New Jersey.

Deaths in Hunterdon County fell by 19.4% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (93) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (75).

In the counties of New Jersey the deaths fell by 2.2% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 43.8% of the fatal crashes in Hunterdon County with a known setting were rural, against 11.0% in New Jersey.

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 Hunterdon 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.Hunterdon County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	9	9	1 or 2
2023	4	4	0
2022	8	8	3
2021	5	5	3
2020	12	12	4
2019	6	6	1 or 2
2018	3	3	0
2017	8	8	1 or 2
2016	11	10	1 or 2
2015	9	8	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	75	73	15

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 32 (1981)2024: 9

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

Table 2.Hunterdon County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	9	9
2023	4	4
2022	8	8
2021	5	5
2020	12	12
2019	6	6
2018	3	3
2017	8	8
2016	11	10
2015	9	8
2014	6	6
2013	9	7
2012	6	5
2011	10	10
2010	12	12
2009	8	8
2008	11	9
2007	7	7
2006	17	15
2005	7	7
2004	10	9
2003	12	11
2002	18	17
2001	11	10
2000	15	15
1999	15	14
1998	10	10
1997	14	13
1996	11	11
1995	19	15
1994	16	16
1993	8	8
1992	13	13
1991	11	11
1990	17	16
1989	16	16
1988	19	17
1987	17	13
1986	18	17
1985	20	17
1984	17	16
1983	25	24
1982	21	19
1981	32	28
1980	21	19
1979	20	17
1978	9	8
1977	23	20
1976	15	13
1975	15	15

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.Hunterdon County beside New Jersey and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Hunterdon County	New Jersey	United States
2024	6.9	7.0	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	5.9	6.7	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. Hunterdon County had 131,097 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Hunterdon County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in New Jersey
A driver recorded as drinkingof 73 fatal crashes	15	73 fatal crashes	20.5%	22.0%
A speeding-related driverof 73 fatal crashes	6	73 fatal crashes	8.2%	23.0%
No restraint usedof 51 occupant deaths with restraint use known	23	51 occupant deathswith restraint use known	45.1%	45.5%
Pedestriansof 75 deaths	13	75 deaths	17.3%	29.4%
Bicyclistsof 75 deaths	1 or 2	75 deaths	1.3%	3.2%
Motorcyclistsof 75 deaths	8	75 deaths	10.7%	13.3%
On a rural roadof 73 fatal crashes with the condition reported	32	73 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	43.8%	11.0%
In the darkof 73 fatal crashes with the condition reported	23	73 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	31.5%	51.3%

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.Hunterdon 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	4	1 or 2	4	11
Monday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Tuesday	1 or 2	3	5	1 or 2	11
Wednesday	0	5	4	3	12
Thursday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Friday	1 or 2	5	3	6	15
Saturday	4	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	12
All days	8	23	22	20	73

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.Hunterdon County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in New Jersey
Interstate	18	24.7%	10.2%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	10.2%
Other principal arterial	30	41.1%	34.6%
Minor arterial	7	9.6%	22.5%
Major collector	11	15.1%	10.7%
Minor collector	0	0.0%	0.8%
Local	7	9.6%	10.9%
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.Hunterdon County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	46
Dark, not lighted	15
Dark, lighted	7
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	3
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Hunterdon County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	61
Cloudy	5
Rain	6
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	0

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Hunterdon County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Hunterdon	In all of New Jersey
Interstate 78	Interstate	18	90
State Route 31	State highway	16	30
US Route 22	US highway	6	43
US Route 202	US highway	7	27

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 New Jersey

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Hunterdon County on the county map of New Jersey

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

Fewer than 1015 counties
10 to 14.94 counties
15 to 19.91 county
20 to 29.91 county
30 or more0 counties
Hunterdon County: 5.9

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 New Jersey

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Hunterdon County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Mercer County	New Jersey	36	266	7.0
Morris County	New Jersey	21	234	4.6
Somerset County	New Jersey	19	196	5.8
Warren County	New Jersey	15	119	11.0
Bucks County	Pennsylvania	45	513	8.1

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of New Jersey have a population nearest to that of Hunterdon 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.
New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic SafetyThe highway safety office of New Jersey.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Hunterdon County, New Jersey: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/nj/hunterdon/. 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 Hunterdon in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 93 deaths in Hunterdon County from 2005 to 2014. It records 75 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Hunterdon in 2024?

The rate of Hunterdon County in 2024 was 6.9 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of New Jersey was 7.0. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 15 of 73 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 Hunterdon?

4 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 47 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.