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Fatal urban and suburban traffic accidents: Mexican states ranked

Measure: Fatal traffic accidents in urban and suburban areas. All 32 estados with data in Traffic accidents in urban and suburban areas by state, Mexico, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

Licence: Fuente/Source: INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía). Reproduced under INEGI's Términos de libre uso de la información del INEGI.
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 4,262 (Mexico).

Lowest: 26 to 58
Group 2: 58 to 73
Group 3: 73 to 100
Group 4: 100 to 240
Highest: 240 to 403

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Covers accidents in urban and suburban areas only: accidents on federal highways are excluded, and deaths count only people who died at the scene, so these figures are well below total road deaths.


1	México	403
2	Jalisco	304
3	Ciudad de México	281
4	Chihuahua	266
5	Sinaloa	258
6	Puebla	253
7	Michoacán de Ocampo	240
8	Nuevo León	222
9	Sonora	209
10	Guanajuato	171
11	Querétaro	150
12	Tamaulipas	145
13	Coahuila de Zaragoza	100
14	San Luis Potosí	98
15	Durango	96
16	Guerrero	90
17	Aguascalientes	84
17	Chiapas	84
19	Quintana Roo	83
20	Oaxaca	73
21	Morelos	72
22	Nayarit	69
23	Baja California	68
23	Zacatecas	68
25	Tlaxcala	65
26	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	58
27	Yucatán	54
28	Campeche	50
29	Hidalgo	48
30	Colima	39
31	Baja California Sur	35
32	Tabasco	26

Source: INEGI, Accidentes de Tránsito Terrestre en Zonas Urbanas y Suburbanas (ATUS), datos abiertos (atus_anual_csv.zip), latest year, one record per accident, summed to states
Source: CONAPO (Consejo Nacional de Población), Proyecciones de la Población de México y de las Entidades Federativas 2020–2070: Indicadores demográficos (file 05_Indicadores_demograficos_proyecciones.csv), mid-year population (POB_MIT_AÑO) used as the rate denominator. Reference period: 2023.

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Mexican estados ranked by fatal traffic accidents in urban and suburban areas (2023). Data: INEGI, Accidentes de Tránsito Terrestre en Zonas Urbanas y Suburbanas (ATUS), ATUS datos abiertos, annual file 2023 (cifras definitivas), summed to states; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/mx-estados-by-fatal-accidents/

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