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Every day, more than 100 Americans are shot and killed in the United States.

Although the impact of gun violence is felt throughout the United States, its contours vary widely by state, county, race and ethnicity, gender, and intent. EveryStat for Gun Safety was designed for users to better understand how gun violence impacts the communities they care about. Select a state below to learn more.

Landscape of Gun Violence

Fewer deaths

Firearm deaths per 100,000 people

More deaths

In an average year, 1,074 people die by guns.

With a rate of 17.5 per 100,000 people, Missouri has the 8th highest rate of gun deaths in the US.

National

36,383 people die by guns each year.

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE: 2014–2018.

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Gun Deaths By Intent

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE: 2014–2018.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of the most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. WISQARS Fatal Injury Reports are broadly considered to be the most comprehensive sources of data on fatal firearm injuries. However, two of its intent categories—”shootings by law enforcement” and “unintentional deaths”—are estimated to be underreported. This is largely due to missing information on death certificates that may result in the misclassification of intent. The total of the intent category averages may not equal the yearly average due to rounding.

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How can there be more deaths in 2017 in California yet the rate of gun deaths is lower? The explanation for this apparent contradiction is related to population growth. The population in California grew at a faster pace than the number of people who died by guns. In other words, despite an increase of 13 total gun deaths over this ten-year period, the age-adjusted gun death rate is lower because the population is larger.

Deaths per 100,000 People

all

suicide

homicide

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, 2009–2018.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. Total deaths and age-adjusted rates were used for each year between 2009 and 2018. Unintentional deaths, deaths related to shootings by law enforcement, and deaths of undetermined intent are not included in the visualization.

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FIREARM INTENT

Gun Suicide

people die by gun suicide every year

suicides per 100,000 people

of all gun deaths are suicides

highest rate of gun suicides in the US

There is insufficient data on firearm suicides for this state to make a comparison.

National

people die by gun suicide every year

suicides per 100,000 people

of all gun deaths are suicides

In , there are hours between gun suicide deaths.

Firearm Suicide and Race/Ethnicity in

Deaths per 100,000 People

N/A

White

N/A

Black

N/A

Hispanic

N/A

Asian

N/A

American Indian

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE: 2014–2018.

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Gun Homicide

people die by gun homicide every year

homicides per 100,000 people

of all gun deaths are homicides

highest rate of gun homicides in the US

There is insufficient data on firearm homicides by race and ethnicity for this state to make a comparison.

National

people die by gun homicide every year

homicides per 100,000 people

of all gun deaths are homicides

of transgender gun homicides are Black women

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, FIVE-YEAR ESTIMATE: 2014–2018.

In , Black people are times as likely as white people to die by gun homicide.

Firearm Homicide and Race/Ethnicity in

Deaths per 100,000 People

N/A

White

N/A

Black

N/A

Hispanic

N/A

Asian

N/A

American Indian

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, FIVE-YEAR ESTIMATE: 2014–2018.

SOURCE: EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY, TRANSGENDER HOMICIDE TRACKER, FOUR-YEAR COUNT: 2017–2020.

Everytown For Gun Safety, Transgender Homicide Tracker, 2017–2020. This database tracks all homicides of transgender or gender non-conforming victims. "Transgender (trans) and gender non-conforming (GNC)" refers to any person who identified or lived as a gender different than what was ascribed to them at birth. The term “homicide” includes shootings by law enforcement.

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GEOGRAPHY

County

All Firearm Deaths

	TOTAL DEATHS (2014–2018)	RATE PER 100,000	TOTAL POPULATION
UNITED STATES	n/a	n/a	n/a

St. Louis, St. Louis City, and Jackson counties contain Missouri's largest city.

County data does not appear when the total number of deaths is less than 10 or when rates are unreliable during the five year period.

COUNTIES COUNTIES	TOTAL DEATHS (2014–2018) TOTAL DEATHS (2014–2018)	RATE PER 100,000 RATE PER 100,000	TOTAL POPULATION TOTAL POPULATION

CDC, UNDERLYING CAUSE OF DEATH, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE: 2014-2018.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) Underlying Cause of Death. A yearly average was developed using five years of the most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. Rates are age-adjusted.

DEMOGRAPHICS

Gun Violence Among Children & Teens

children and teens die by guns every year

of all gun deaths among children and teens are

There is insufficient data on gun deaths among children and teens for this state.

National

children and teens die by guns every year

of all gun deaths among children and teens are homicides

Firearms are the leading cause of death among children and teens in .

n.b. The leading causes of deaths among children and teens are one year of data. The firearm data in the table above is a five-year average

Deaths Among Children and Teens By Cause

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, ONE-YEAR COUNT: 2018.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports, 2018. This analysis used the number of deaths of children and teenagers aged 1 to 19 by known intent—homicide, suicide, or unintentional death. The number of deaths of children age 0 to 1 are calculated separately because the leading causes of death for newborns and infants are specific to that age group.

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DEMOGRAPHICS

Intimate Partner Homicide

women fatally shot by a partner from 2014-2018

of female IPH victims are killed with a gun

There is insufficient data on intimate partner homicides for this state.

National

women fatally shot by a partner from 2014-2018

of female IPH victims are killed with a gun

Intimate Partner Homicide in

SOURCE: FBI, SUPPLEMENTARY HOMICIDE REPORTS, 2013–2017; FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, 2014–2018.

Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program: Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), 2014 to 2018. The FBI SHR does not include data from Florida. Everytown for Gun Safety obtained intimate partner homicide data from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and included the reported homicides in the analysis. While the FBI SHR includes both current and former partners in its relationship designation, Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement includes only current partners in its data.

Black women in are times as likely to be shot and killed by an intimate partner as white women.

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DEMOGRAPHICS

Race/Ethnicity

Black people are

as likely to die by guns as white people

White people are

as likely to die by gun suicide as Black people

Black people are

as likely to die by gun homicide as white people

There is insufficient data on firearm deaths by race and ethnicity for this state to make a comparison.

National

Black people are

as likely to die by guns as white people

White people are

as likely to die by gun suicide as Black people

Black people are

as likely to die by gun homicide as white people

% of

All Firearm Deaths

by Race/Ethnicity in

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE: 2014–2018.

All Firearm Deaths

per 100,000 people in

Deaths per 100,000 People

N/A

White

N/A

Black

N/A

Hispanic

N/A

Asian

N/A

American Indian

SOURCE: CDC, WISQARS FATAL INJURY REPORTS, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE: 2014–2018.

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