309
Deaths of county residents, CDC WONDER, 2018-2024
County evidence
Berks County, Pennsylvania
County identity and carefully framed public-data context.
2024 ACS population433,015
Coverage levelT1
Data through2025
UpdatedAug. 2, 2026
Technical build details
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Residence and crash location
318
Deaths from crashes in this county, FARS, 2018-2024
9
Crash-location fatalities minus resident deaths, 2018-2024
location minus resident A signed difference between the two source counts.
Keep in view: This difference is not a count of people traveling into or out of the county and does not identify where county residents crashed.
Reported crash flags
7.0%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged drinking driver, 2016-2025
near near the state share
2.0%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged drugged driver, 2016-2025
well below well below the state share
11.7%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged distracted, 2016-2025
near broadly near the state share
95% range: 11.4%–12.0%55.9%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged aggressive driving, 2016-2025
near near the state share
24.5%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged speeding related, 2016-2025
near near the state share
16.1%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged mature driver, 2016-2025
near broadly near the state share
95% range: 15.8%–16.5%20.0%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged young driver, 2016-2025
above above the state share
4.1%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged deer related, 2016-2025
below below the state share
1.7%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged work zone, 2016-2025
well above possibly well above the state share
95% range: 1.5%–1.8%0.4%
Share of PennDOT reported crashes flagged school zone, 2016-2025
above somewhat above the state share
95% range: 0.3%–0.4%Keep in view: These reported-crash flags can overlap and do not measure how often individual drivers engage in a behavior or establish why a crash happened.
Crash severity
8.6
Share of reported crashes that were fatal: 8.6 per 1,000, 2016-2025
near broadly near the state rate
95% range: 7.8–9.59.0%
Suspected-serious share of the source-defined reported-crash injury universe, 2016-2025
near near the state share
Keep in view: The share of reported crashes that were fatal does not measure a county's danger, a traveler's risk, or the cause of any crash.
Fatal-crash timing
33.7%
Share of FARS fatal crashes that were night, 2015-2024
near broadly near the state share
95% range: 29.3%–38.3%32.5%
Share of FARS fatal crashes that were weekend, 2015-2024
near broadly near the state share
95% range: 28.1%–37.1%27.4%
Share of FARS fatal crashes that were impaired involved, 2015-2024
near broadly near the state share
95% range: 23.3%–31.9%Keep in view: These time and involvement shares describe fatal crashes in FARS and do not measure an individual's risk or establish why a crash occurred.
Population context
109.9
Annual reported crashes per 10,000 residents (2024 ACS population), 2025
well above well above the state rate
111.5
Five-year annualized reported crashes per 10,000 residents (2024 ACS population), 2021-2025
well above well above the state rate
Keep in view: Crashes per resident use population as context, not miles traveled, and do not measure an individual resident's driving risk.
Truck-crash context
1.10
Truck-crash share relative to overall reported-crash share, 2015-2023
above somewhat above the state level
95% range: 1.06–1.14Keep in view: This location quotient compares shares of reported crashes and does not measure truck-driver fault, carrier safety, or roadway danger.
Long-run trajectory
4,757
Annual Reportable Crashes, 2025
95.4
Annual Crash Index (2006=100), 2025
near near the state index
87.4
Crash Index (2006=100), 2020
below somewhat below the state index
95% range: 83.9–91.096.8
Mean Recovery Index, 2021-2025
near near the state index
4.1
Mean Absolute County-State Index Gap, 2006-2025
well below well below the state level
Keep in view: An indexed trajectory compares reported-crash counts with a county's own 2006 base and does not measure safety, danger, or individual risk.
Source notices
- Source: CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System, Underlying Cause of Death on CDC WONDER.
- Retain the query edition and CDC WONDER data-use conditions
- CountyCase CC BY does not convey or replace WONDER obligations; downstream users remain independently bound
- Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (Final files).
- Final-release and source-universe notice
- Source: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, public crash open-data files.
- Aggregate-only use; no source-record redistribution
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
- This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
- Source: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, MCMIS Crash File, U.S. DOT Data Portal.
- Matured years and deduplicated crash-event notice