Suicide Deaths

Suicide and firearm suicide death rates per 100,000 and deaths, by Georgia county, 2019-2024 (CDC MIOV).

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence (MIOV), county dataset (data.cdc.gov psx4-wq38), based on National Center for Health Statistics National Vital Statistics System death records, as retrieved 2026-10-24
Year coverage: 2019–2024
Updated: annual
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: 7b61e1b6a35b

Detail levels available

County · default

Overview

Suicide deaths among the residents of each of Georgia's 159 counties, 2019-2024, all methods and by firearm: CDC's crude death rate per 100,000 residents (the observed rate, or an estimate from CDC's Bayesian model, with its 95% credible interval, where the county had 1-9 deaths) and the number of deaths, from CDC's Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence (MIOV) dashboard (National Vital Statistics System death records). Counts of 1-9 are withheld by CDC.

Row grain: One row per year, county_fips, tract_geoid, method.

Key metric

death_rate_per_100k — Suicide Death Rate (per 100,000) (rate_per_population)

The single headline value most answers want.

JSON schema →Data contract (YAML) →

Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	Calendar year of death (2019-2024), final as CDC publishes it. CDC's provisional trailing 12 months (June 2025 to May 2026) are not included. Full description▾ Calendar year of death (2019-2024), final as CDC publishes it. CDC's provisional trailing 12 months (June 2025 to May 2026) are not included.
`county_fips`County FIPS	string	—	—	no	5-digit county FIPS code as published (FK to the counties dimension): the decedent's county of residence. Every row is a county; CDC publishes no Georgia total in this dataset. Full description▾ 5-digit county FIPS code as published (FK to the counties dimension): the decedent's county of residence. Every row is a county; CDC publishes no Georgia total in this dataset. Joins counties; adds its label columns.
`tract_geoid`Tract GEOID	string	—	—	yes	Always NULL: this dataset is by county. Kept for the health domain's standard key shape. Full description▾ Always NULL: this dataset is by county. Kept for the health domain's standard key shape. Joins tracts; adds its label columns.
`method`Method	string	—	—	no	'all' is every suicide; 'firearm' is suicides by firearm, a subset of 'all'. Never add the two. Full description▾ Method of suicide, as CDC groups it: 'all' (every suicide death, any method: the total) or 'firearm' (suicides by firearm, which are also counted in 'all'). Never add the two. No other method is published, and a non-firearm figure ('all' minus 'firearm') is not served: it would need, or narrow, the counts CDC withholds. 2 allowed values▾ `all — total / aggregate` `firearm`
`death_rate_per_100k`Suicide Death Rate (per 100,000)	number	rate_per_population	—	yes	Suicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year (crude); an estimate from CDC's model where the county had 1-9 deaths. Full description▾ Suicide deaths per 100,000 residents of the county in the year, crude (all ages, not age-adjusted), as CDC publishes it (rounded to 0.1). With 0 or 10 or more deaths it is the observed rate (deaths / population x 100,000; 0 with no deaths). With 1 to 9 deaths it is an estimate from CDC's Bayesian model, which borrows strength from neighboring counties to steady small counts and protect privacy (rate_modeled true), with a 95% credible interval: not deaths / population, and never 0. Rates never add or average across counties, and no population is published to weight them. The highest is 53.8 (Worth County, 13321, 2022: 11 deaths, all by firearm, so its firearm rate is the same), preserved as published: a few deaths in a small county give a high observed rate. Fulton County, 2024: 14.5 (157 deaths).
`death_rate_per_100k_ci_lower`Modeled Rate 95% Credible Interval Lower Bound	number	rate_per_population	—	yes	Lower bound of the 95% credible interval of death_rate_per_100k, as CDC publishes it, for modeled rates only (rate_modeled true): under CDC's model, the true rate lies in the interval with 95% probability. Wide for small counties. Full description▾ Lower bound of the 95% credible interval of death_rate_per_100k, as CDC publishes it, for modeled rates only (rate_modeled true): under CDC's model, the true rate lies in the interval with 95% probability. Wide for small counties.
`death_rate_per_100k_ci_upper`Modeled Rate 95% Credible Interval Upper Bound	number	rate_per_population	—	yes	Upper bound of the 95% credible interval of death_rate_per_100k, as CDC publishes it, for modeled rates only (rate_modeled true). Full description▾ Upper bound of the 95% credible interval of death_rate_per_100k, as CDC publishes it, for modeled rates only (rate_modeled true).
`num_deaths`Deaths	integer	count	—	yes	Number of suicide deaths among residents of the county in the year, as CDC publishes it: 0, or 10 and more; CDC withholds 1 to 9 (NULL here, rate_modeled true). A published 0 is a real zero. Adds across counties only where none is NULL, so a sum over counties with a NULL is an undercount: there is no Georgia total in this dataset. Firearm suicides are also counted in 'all': never add the two methods. Full description▾ Number of suicide deaths among residents of the county in the year, as CDC publishes it: 0, or 10 and more; CDC withholds 1 to 9 (NULL here, rate_modeled true). A published 0 is a real zero. Adds across counties only where none is NULL, so a sum over counties with a NULL is an undercount: there is no Georgia total in this dataset. Firearm suicides are also counted in 'all': never add the two methods.
`rate_modeled`Rate Is Modeled	boolean	—	—	no	True when the rate is CDC's model estimate (1-9 deaths, count withheld). Full description▾ CDC's modeled-rate flag (rate_m): true where the county had 1 to 9 deaths, so num_deaths is withheld and death_rate_per_100k is an estimate from CDC's Bayesian model with a 95% credible interval (rate and interval NULL where CDC flags the modeled rate as unstable and does not publish it, -999 in the source); false where the rate is observed (0 or 10 or more deaths). Describes the row, not part of its key.

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`counties`	enum-enforced, default: counties
`county_fips`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`tract_geoid`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`method`	categorical	`allfirearm`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`rate_modeled`	categorical	any value	multi-value

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), counties level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/health/suicide_deaths"

counties data for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/health/suicide_deaths?year=2024"

Filtered to method = firearm for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/health/suicide_deaths?year=2024&method=firearm"

One county (FIPS 13121), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/health/suicide_deaths?county_fips=13121&year=2024&detail=counties"

Download 2024 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/health/suicide_deaths?year=2024&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Suppressed cells (values the source withholds, usually for a group too small to report) are NULL, never zero.
Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

Suicide deaths by county of residence, calendar years only. Counties with 1 to 9 deaths get a CDC model estimate in place of an observed rate (rate_modeled true), so many county rates are estimates. Rates are crude (deaths per 100,000 residents of all ages), not age-adjusted, so places with older or younger populations are not directly comparable. Where a county had 1 to 9 deaths CDC withholds the count (shown as '1-9': num_deaths NULL, never a zero, never backed out of a total) and publishes instead an estimate from its Bayesian model, which borrows strength from neighboring counties (rate_modeled true), with a 95% credible interval; a modeled rate is not deaths divided by population, and where CDC flags the modeled rate as unstable and does not publish it (-999 in the source) the rate and interval are NULL. Here 63% of rows have 1 to 9 deaths (114 of them with no rate at all): most counties' figures are model estimates, so compare them by their credible intervals. 'firearm' suicides are a subset of 'all' (never add the two) and are also counted in firearm_deaths (firearm deaths of every intent), so never add figures across the MIOV topics. This county dataset has no Georgia row: a sum of counties with a withheld count is an undercount (CDC publishes Georgia's totals in its separate MIOV state dataset, data.cdc.gov fpsi-y8tj, which is not part of this table). Not included: CDC's provisional trailing 12 months (June 2025 to May 2026), which CDC revises and rolls forward monthly; every row here is a calendar year. A modeled firearm rate and a modeled all-suicide rate come from separate model fits, so nothing guarantees the firearm estimate is below the all-suicide figure for the same county and year (none exceeds it in this release); observed firearm rates never exceed observed all-suicide rates. CDC's data dictionary (not part of this source file) gives the cause-of-death codes; Georgia DPH's OASIS also publishes suicide deaths, with age-adjusted rates and demographics, from the state's own records and population estimates: compare places within one source only. No demographics, means other than firearm, or attempts in this table.