Buffalo, NY
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Buffalo is located in Erie County, New York. According to the New York State Death Index, 689,846 deaths were recorded in Buffalo from 1881 to 2017.
Between 1957 and 2017, there were also 38,564 people who were usually residents of Buffalo but who died elsewhere in New York.
The government-run facilities V.A. Medical Center, Buffalo, and Buffalo Psychiatric Center are (or were) located within Buffalo, but deaths for those locations were generally registered separately from Buffalo.
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To obtain copies of pre-1915 death records for Buffalo, you will need to contact the Buffalo city clerk's office, not the state Department of Health.
Deaths in Buffalo Recorded by the New York State Department of Health (1881-2017)
About 95% of the "place of death" information in the New York State Death Index was able to be standardized and matched to a known locality (town, city, county). The graph below, and its data counts, do not include the approximately 5% of death index records where the location was illegible or could not be easily matched. Information about a person's usual residence at the time of their death is only available in the state death index from 1957 onwards.
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Statistics & Insights
Most Common Surnames
People who died in Buffalo between 1881-2017, or who were residents at the time of their death but died elsewhere (1957-2017)
Residents Who Died Elsewhere
Data for 1957-2017
Age at Death Statistics for Buffalo
Data for 1940-2017
Oldest Recorded Residents
Average Age of Death in Buffalo by Decade
