California by County
Alcohol Traffic Fatality Data 1991-2006

Rate Per 100,000 Population

Purple = Rate Up in most Recent three years or more.

For 2006 county all data go here.

Findings:

The large counties of Contra Costa, Riverside and San Diego have had increases in the rate per 100,000 in alcohol related deaths for three years in a row.

San Luis Obispo has had an increase every year in the rate of alcohol deaths for five years in a row.

County

Population Category => 1,000,000

*As the data is for 14 years some counties changed population category.

Year of Crash

1992

1991

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Alameda

3.89

4.10

2.49

2.78

2.70

1.93

1.74

1.36

1.90

3.30

2.50

2.69

2.48

3.01

2.33

2.71

Contra Costa

2.70

2.87

3.33

3.69

Los Angeles

4.05

4.92

3.62

3.42

2.48

2.36

2.47

2.05

2.35

2.51

2.56

2.36

2.70

2.56

2.60

2.93

Orange

2.87

3.62

2.98

2.14

2.03

2.49

1.82

1.60

2.43

2.13

2.74

2.40

2.33

2.21

2.75

2.76

Riverside

7.87

9.09

5.57

7.54

7.40

7.33

5.64

5.05

4.36

4.68

5.24

6.53

5.90

6.30

6.45

7.73

Sacramento

6.29

5.18

4.59

4.39

3.84

3.26

4.53

3.26

3.24

3.00

4.32

4.22

3.60

4.79

4.50

3.94

San Bernardino

10.28

9.35

7.77

7.27

7.53

7.06

4.00

5.15

5.23

5.52

4.86

6.23

6.11

7.19

6.85

7.56

San Diego

5.75

6.34

5.12

4.29

3.52

4.00

2.80

2.82

4.03

2.93

4.22

3.90

3.67

3.63

3.93

3.74

Santa Clara

3.40

4.04

2.51

1.66

2.67

2.63

2.52

1.21

1.38

2.19

1.58

2.32

1.96

1.95

2.50

1.51

Counties with Population 100,000 - 999,999

	Year of Crash
	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Butte	10.13	10.49	7.78	1.02	5.57	6.57	6.01	11.48	4.46	2.94	4.36	5.74	4.26	6.10	7.43	5.06
Contra Costa	7.41	3.33	2.57	3.93	2.64