diff --git a/rai/core_test/rpc.cpp b/rai/core_test/rpc.cpp
index 543f00d8..cab05195 100644
--- a/rai/core_test/rpc.cpp
+++ b/rai/core_test/rpc.cpp
@@ -1446,6 +1446,7 @@ TEST (rpc, block_count)
 	}
     ASSERT_EQ (200, response1.status);
 	ASSERT_EQ ("1", response1.json.get <std::string> ("count"));
+	ASSERT_EQ ("0", response1.json.get <std::string> ("unchecked"));
 }
 
 TEST (rpc, frontier_count)
diff --git a/rai/node/rpc.cpp b/rai/node/rpc.cpp
index 7470bcf7..a7030e02 100644
--- a/rai/node/rpc.cpp
+++ b/rai/node/rpc.cpp
@@ -452,9 +452,9 @@ void rai::rpc_handler::block_account ()
 void rai::rpc_handler::block_count ()
 {
 	rai::transaction transaction (rpc.node.store.environment, nullptr, false);
-	auto size (rpc.node.store.block_count (transaction));
 	boost::property_tree::ptree response_l;
-	response_l.put ("count", std::to_string (size));
+	response_l.put ("count", std::to_string (rpc.node.store.block_count (transaction)));
+	response_l.put ("unchecked", std::to_string (rpc.node.store.unchecked_count (transaction)));
 	rpc.send_response (response, response_l);
 }