Atlantic County averaged 34 suicide deaths per year from 2019 through 2023, with an age-adjusted suicide death rate of 11.7 per 100,000 people, according to federal mortality data compiled by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. According to SouthJerseyNewsBeat.com, Cape May County averaged 12 suicide deaths annually, with a rate of 12.4 per 100,000.Both were well above New Jersey's statewide rate of 7.3 per 100,000 during the same five-year period. Atlantic County's suicide death rate also showed a statistically significant rising trend during that period, according to the federal data.