Portland traffic deaths in 2025 are on pace to hit their lowest number since the COVID-19 pandemic, when deadly crashes soared.

New figures released to the City Council by City Administrator Michael Jordan show 39 people died in Portland traffic through Nov. 17, a lower figure than any year since 2021. At that pace, Portland would finish the full year with the fewest traffic deaths since at least 2019. (At least one person has died since Jordan published the report.)

The statistics tally all people killed on Portland roads, whether in cars, on bicycles or motorcycles, or walking across the street.

The 2019 figure of 50 deaths was the highest number of fatalities in a single year since 1996. They spiked further the following year, as drivers flouted traffic laws on roads emptied during

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