Elmira, NY
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Elmira is located in Chemung County, New York. According to the New York State Death Index, 95,214 deaths were recorded in Elmira from 1882 to 2017.
Between 1957 and 2017, there were also 3,831 people who were usually residents of Elmira but who died elsewhere in New York.
The government-run facility Elmira Correctional Facility is (or was) located within Elmira, but deaths for that location were generally registered separately from Elmira.
Comment listed in official New York State Department of Health data source:
"All locatlities within Chemung County send records to the county registrar within the Health Department"
Deaths in Elmira Recorded by the New York State Department of Health (1882-2017)
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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Most Common Surnames
People who died in Elmira between 1882-2017, 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 Elmira
Data for 1940-2017
Oldest Recorded Residents
Average Age of Death in Elmira by Decade
