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16-10. SC Motor Vehicle Registrations and Death Rate: 1995 – 1997

                              1995                          1996                          1997
  
                                     DEATH                         DEATH                         DEATH
 COUNTY             REGISTRATIONS   RATE  1/     REGISTRATIONS    RATE  1/     REGISTRATIONS    RATE  1/

 Abbeville              19,761        25.3            20,136        24.8            19,826        35.3
 Aiken                 109,440        20.1           109,588        35.6           106,748        20.6
 Allendale               6,654        90.2             6,528       107.2             6,851        87.6
 Anderson              129,708        30.8           130,866        29.0           131,304        25.1
 Bamberg                11,206        44.6            11,170        35.8            11,197        62.5

 Barnwell               16,821        23.8            16,594        48.2            16,956        35.4
 Beaufort               71,087        29.5            73,353        21.8            77,377        25.8
 Berkeley               93,182        38.6            93,650        39.5            93,598        47.0
 Calhoun                12,483        48.1            13,007        61.5            13,424        22.3
 Charleston            197,922        22.2           197,812        18.2           197,711        19.2

 Cherokee               39,740        52.8            40,132        62.3            40,293        32.3
 Chester                25,897        23.2            25,888        50.2            26,019        26.9
 Chesterfield           32,060        59.3            32,817        39.6            32,482        52.3
 Clarendon              20,936       124.2            20,808        91.3            20,708        62.8
 Colleton               27,136        55.3            27,217        84.5            27,588        47.1

 Darlington             48,118        56.1            48,467        51.6            48,482        41.3
 Dillon                 20,888        62.2            21,360        70.2            20,885        71.8
 Dorchester             62,285        16.1            63,590        28.3            65,065        26.1
 Edgefield              16,587        24.1            16,641        42.1            16,246        24.6
 Fairfield              17,693        45.2            17,732        67.7            18,073        22.1

 Florence               92,207        39.0            92,435        29.2            93,367        49.3
 Georgetown             38,049        34.2            38,738        28.4            39,320        48.3
 Greenville            283,571        17.3           283,877        27.8           282,828        31.1
 Greenwood              50,719        31.5            50,282        23.9            49,836        26.1
 Hampton                13,759        87.2            13,642        58.6            13,460         7.4

 Horry                 131,472        37.3           138,405        37.6           141,964        35.2
 Jasper                 11,582        86.3            11,725        85.3            11,948       192.5
 Kershaw                41,450        26.5            41,930        42.9            42,737        30.4
 Lancaster              47,020        25.5            48,182        29.1            47,329        29.6
 Laurens                50,836        49.2            51,382        31.1            51,529        25.2

 Lee                    12,147        65.9            12,331        40.5            12,315        73.1
 Lexington             163,099        19.0           169,606        23.0           170,353        22.9
 McCormick               6,745        44.5             6,932        28.9             7,171        55.8
 Marion                 23,021        47.8            23,016        82.6            22,899        21.8
 Marlboro               19,221        62.4            18,958        47.5            18,707        42.8

 Newberry               29,248        27.4            29,083        17.2            28,978        38.0
 Oconee                 54,352        14.7            56,090        25.0            56,337        23.1
 Orangeburg             65,257        46.0            64,792        34.0            65,397        41.3
 Pickens                80,427        17.4            81,245        19.7            81,342        16.0
 Richland              208,911        16.8           208,265        17.3           204,301        21.5

 Saluda                 15,368        19.5            15,299        58.8            15,173        33.0
 Spartanburg           198,514        38.8           197,178        32.0           196,435        29.5
 Sumter                 72,939        28.8            71,437        37.8            71,630        34.9
 Union                  24,255        24.7            24,025        16.6            23,534        42.5
 Williamsburg           24,860        56.3            25,290        51.4            25,082        99.7
 York                  118,391        25.3           120,132        26.6           123,278        14.6

 STATE TOTAL         2,857,024        30.9         2,881,633        32.3         2,888,083        31.3

Source: S.C. Department fo Public Safety, "1997 S.C. Traffic Collision Fact Book," p. 47. Death Rate calculations by the Office of Research and Statistics.

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