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 |
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| MANNER OF DEATH AFTER INVESTIGATION |
|
| Accidental |
1,347 |
| Homicide |
163 |
| Natural |
1,034 |
| Suicide |
208 |
| Undetermined |
33 |
| Fetal Demise |
9 |
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|
| AUTOPSIES |
|
| Total Performed |
929 |
| Franklin County Cases |
929 |
| Out of County Cases |
0 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |