North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
 

N.C. OCME Data and Annual Reports

The OCME investigates all deaths in North Carolina due to injury or violence, as well as natural deaths that are suspicious, unusual, or unattended by a medical professional. The OCME collects extensive information on each death that is investigated, much of which is included in the OCME data system. The OCME collects additional information that is not available from the death certificate data system, including alcohol and other toxicology test results and more detailed information on gun type for deaths involving firearms.

OCME Annual Reports

Archived Annual Reports

2024 Reports

Archived Reports

2024 Reports

Archived Reports

Child Fatality Annual Report

Archived Reports

Other Reports


Data Requests

If you would like to request data, please complete the data request form linked below. Once you have completed the data request form, please email it to ocme.data.request@dhhs.nc.gov. Please be advised that it may take up to six weeks to complete a data request.

Note: Autopsy, Toxicology and/or Medical Examiner Investigation Reports should be requested through the Document Request Form

State Center for Health Statistics Additional Resources

The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics (SCHS) is responsible for data collection, health-related research, production of reports and maintenance of a comprehensive collection of health statistics for North Carolina. Their data is comprehensive and broader than the information from medical examiner system, which focuses on a subset of deaths requiring investigation. The North Carolina Health Data Query System is a web-based interactive database system that provides customized reports of health data based on user-specified selection of variables (e.g. age, race, county) for data years about 18-24 months in the past. Please inquire here regarding SCHS data and reports: schs.info@dhhs.nc.gov

 

Last Modified: 05-27-2025