Special Report

COVID-19: This is the Most Dangerous County in the Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA Metro Area

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 11, 2021 5:30 am

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 32,210,800 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metropolitan area, located in California, a total of 149,868 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 6,539 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 9,845 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area that appear to be higher risk than others.

The broader Sacramento metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Sacramento County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 103,595 infections in Sacramento County, or 6,860 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Sacramento County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Sacramento area, it also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metro area as a whole. There have been a total of 110 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Sacramento County, compared to 99 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 9, 2021.

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