UNINTENTIONAL POISONING MORTALITY RATES (PER 100,000)
2016-2020 NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENT DEATHS

County Total Deaths Age-Adjusted
Rate
Alamance 208 26.2
Alexander 22 12.9
Alleghany 9 **
Anson 22 19.2
Ashe 16 **
Avery 11 **
Beaufort 76 40.3
Bertie 18 **
Bladen 46 29.7
Brunswick 214 42
Buncombe 504 40
Burke 133 31
Cabarrus 308 29.7
Caldwell 104 26.1
Camden 11 **
Carteret 114 38.8
Caswell 31 29.9
Catawba 175 24.1
Chatham 58 19.1
Cherokee 37 34.7
Chowan 22 37.2
Clay 14 **
Cleveland 77 16.5
Columbus 77 31.3
Craven 202 45
Cumberland 537 33.7
Currituck 48 36.8
Dare 76 45.8
Davidson 288 39.3
Davie 43 24.6
Duplin 35 12.9
Durham 286 17.6
Edgecombe 67 27.3
Forsyth 487 27.2
Franklin 83 26.1
Gaston 252 23.4
Gates 14 **
Graham 10 **
Granville 55 20
Greene 17 **
Guilford 638 24.4
Halifax 60 27.7
Harnett 188 28.6
Haywood 95 32
Henderson 129 26
Hertford 25 25
Hoke 42 15.2
Hyde 12 **
Iredell 159 18.6
Jackson 68 33.7
Johnston 185 18.6
Jones 19 **
Lee 110 39.3
Lenoir 66 25.4
Lincoln 73 19
McDowell 59 26.5
Macon 50 34.1
Madison 25 26.1
Martin 31 30.8
Mecklenburg 1,018 17.8
Mitchell 18 **
Montgomery 24 20.1
Moore 79 18.4
Nash 87 20.1
New Hanover 403 37.3
Northampton 21 24.5
Onslow 219 26.5
Orange 93 13.2
Pamlico 36 69.1
Pasquotank 62 35.8
Pender 78 28
Perquimans 15 **
Person 50 27.6
Pitt 231 27.9
Polk 29 34.8
Randolph 279 43
Richmond 55 28
Robeson 223 36.7
Rockingham 161 40.4
Rowan 298 43.8
Rutherford 84 26.1
Sampson 63 22.1
Scotland 36 23.2
Stanly 115 40.8
Stokes 94 43.7
Surry 108 33.7
Swain 32 50
Transylvania 25 16.8
Tyrrell 7 **
Union 175 17
Vance 69 35
Wake 703 12.4
Warren 16 **
Washington 8 **
Watauga 25 10.5
Wayne 143 24.7
Wilkes 97 30.9
Wilson 86 22.6
Yadkin 50 30
Yancey 13 **
North Carolina 12,269 24.5

North Carolina County Health Data Book - 2022 Division of Public Health
N.C. Department of Health and Human Services State Center for Health Statistics