Arlington (VA), Loudoun, Middlesex (MA), Bergen, Manhattan, and Fairfax are among the safest counties in the United States, by one measure. datawrapper.de/_/grGjQ/ datawrapper.de/_/CN6cO/

3 weeks ago marked 15 years since Feb 12, 2009—the last multiple-fatality accident involving a U.S. passenger airliner (Part 121). 11.6 billion passengers have since boarded a scheduled U.S. airline flight, with just 2 passenger fatalities (Part 121: Southwest 1380; PenAir 3296)

You often hear about the fatality rate per 100 million or 1 billion passenger miles in transportation statistics, but over the last 15 years, U.S. airlines have averaged less than 1 fatality per passenger *light-year* traveled

Federal, state, and local U.S. government expenditures by function, 2022 public.flourish.studio/visualisation/…