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2024 Coroner's Office Statistics

Most categories contain cases from other counties. For example, a homicide victim from Marion County may have actually died at a Franklin County hospital, making it a Marion County criminal case, but a Franklin County Coroner’s Case.


Coroner's Office Statistics

2024

(eff. 01/01/2024 thru 12/31/2024)
TOTAL REFERRED DEATHS 5,477
Accepted as Coroner’s Cases 2,794
Not Assigned as Coroner’s Cases 2,683
   
MANNER OF DEATH AFTER INVESTIGATION  
Accidental 1,347
Homicide 163
Natural 1,034
Suicide 208
Undetermined 33
Fetal Demise 9
   
AUTOPSIES  
Total Performed 929
Franklin County Cases 929
Out of County Cases 0
   
EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS  
Total Performed 1,014
Franklin County External Examinatons 1,014
Out of County External Examinatons 0
Partial Examinations 66
Death Certificate Only 789
   
ADDITIONAL FIGURES  
Bodies Transported 2,085
Storage Cases 80
Scene Investigations 1,472
Toxicology Invesitagtions 1,933
Non-Human Bones Found 17
Sudden Infant Deaths were reported in compliance with the Ohio Revised Code 313.121. SID total is also reflected in the Manner of Death categories; Natural, Accidental, & Undetermined. Present language also identifies this cause of death as Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID) 18