Kendall County, Texas: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 11 deaths in 9 fatal crashes in Kendall County in 2024.

FARS records 73 deaths in 70 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 15.8 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Texas in the same years is 13.6.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Kendall County was number 111 of 254 counties of Texas.

Deaths in Kendall County rose by 19.7% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (61) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (73).

In the counties of Texas the deaths rose by 18.2% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 80.0% of the fatal crashes in Kendall County with a known setting were rural, against 38.1% in Texas.

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

1 or 2

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	11	9	3
2023	6	6	1 or 2
2022	8	8	1 or 2
2021	13	13	5
2020	6	6	1 or 2
2019	10	10	3
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2017	4	4	1 or 2
2016	5	5	1 or 2
2015	9	8	4
2015 to 2024	73	70	21

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 14 (2000)2024: 11

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	11	9
2023	6	6
2022	8	8
2021	13	13
2020	6	6
2019	10	10
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	4	4
2016	5	5
2015	9	8
2014	5	4
2013	8	8
2012	8	8
2011	3	3
2010	5	5
2009	5	3
2008	4	3
2007	6	6
2006	9	6
2005	8	6
2004	5	5
2003	13	10
2002	1 or 2	1 or 2
2001	6	6
2000	14	12
1999	7	7
1998	6	5
1997	6	6
1996	10	7
1995	11	10
1994	1 or 2	1 or 2
1993	6	5
1992	1 or 2	1 or 2
1991	4	4
1990	1 or 2	1 or 2
1989	6	5
1988	5	5
1987	10	8
1986	4	4
1985	5	5
1984	1 or 2	1 or 2
1983	3	3
1982	4	4
1981	8	7
1980	1 or 2	1 or 2
1979	8	3
1978	12	9
1977	11	8
1976	7	5
1975	3	3

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 Texas and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Kendall County	Texas	United States
2024	21.2	13.3	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	15.8	13.6	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 51,977 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 Texas
A driver recorded as drinkingof 70 fatal crashes	21	70 fatal crashes	30.0%	25.5%
A speeding-related driverof 70 fatal crashes	31	70 fatal crashes	44.3%	32.1%
No restraint usedof 50 occupant deaths with restraint use known	19	50 occupant deathswith restraint use known	38.0%	45.1%
Pedestriansof 73 deaths	6	73 deaths	8.2%	17.6%
Bicyclistsof 73 deaths	0	73 deaths	0.0%	1.9%
Motorcyclistsof 73 deaths	14	73 deaths	19.2%	12.7%
On a rural roadof 70 fatal crashes with the condition reported	56	70 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	80.0%	38.1%
In the darkof 69 fatal crashes with the condition reported	24	69 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	34.8%	55.9%

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	3	3	10
Monday	3	4	5	1 or 2	13
Tuesday	0	6	5	3	14
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	8
Thursday	0	3	5	1 or 2	10
Friday	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Saturday	0	5	1 or 2	3	9
All days	8	24	24	14	70

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 Texas
Interstate	23	32.9%	15.8%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	6.3%
Other principal arterial	18	25.7%	29.8%
Minor arterial	11	15.7%	20.3%
Major collector	8	11.4%	18.9%
Minor collector	1 or 2	2.9%	1.7%
Local	8	11.4%	7.1%
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	39
Dark, not lighted	22
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	5
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Kendall County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	44
Cloudy	11
Rain	12
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	3
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	0

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 Texas
Interstate 10	Interstate	23	994
State Route 46	State highway	13	44
US Route 87	US highway	6	241

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 Texas

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Kendall County on the county map of Texas

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

Fewer than 1014 counties
10 to 14.926 counties
15 to 19.924 counties
20 to 29.963 counties
30 or more125 counties
Count of 1 or 2, no rate shown2 counties
Kendall County: 15.8

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 Texas

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
Bandera County	Texas	7	56	25.3
Bexar County	Texas	218	2,051	10.2
Blanco County	Texas	10	61	51.0
Comal County	Texas	22	203	12.5
Gillespie County	Texas	5	75	27.8
Kerr County	Texas	9	105	19.9

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Texas 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.
Texas Traffic Safety SectionThe highway safety office of Texas.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Kendall County, Texas: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/tx/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 61 deaths in Kendall County from 2005 to 2014. It records 73 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Kendall in 2024?

The rate of Kendall County in 2024 was 21.2 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Texas was 13.3. 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 21 of 70 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?

FARS records 23 fatal crashes on Interstate 10 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 13 fatal crashes on State Route 46 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 6 fatal crashes on US Route 87 in the county from 2015 to 2024.