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Suffolk County is located in New York State. According to the New York State Death Index, 812,937 deaths were recorded in Suffolk County from 1880 to 2017.
Between 1957 and 2017, there were also 38,627 people who were usually residents of Suffolk County but who died in a different county in New York.
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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Many different localities within Suffolk 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.
People who died in Suffolk County between 1880-2017, or who were residents at the time of their death but died elsewhere (1957-2017)
Data for 1957-2017
Data for 1940-2017