Niagara County, NY
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Niagara County is located in New York State. According to the New York State Death Index, 237,494 deaths were recorded in Niagara County from 1881 to 2017.
Between 1957 and 2017, there were also 19,498 people who were usually residents of Niagara County but who died in a different county in New York.
Deaths in Niagara County 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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Towns & Cities in Niagara County, New York
Many different localities within Niagara County have recorded deaths over the years. Some of these places were actually neighborhoods or small hamlets (some now defunct, or consolidated into other locales) whose vital records information was eventually managed by a larger town or city they were within, or sometimes even by their county registrar. Some government-run facilties such as VA Hospitals and state-run developmental centers may have managed their own death registrations too, separately from the towns in which they were located.
Statistics & Insights
Most Common Surnames
People who died in Niagara County 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 Niagara County
Data for 1940-2017
Oldest Recorded Residents
Average Age of Death in Niagara County by Decade
