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These Are the Counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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There have been 82,117,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 1,781,485 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 24,555 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 25,100 cases per 100,000 people.
Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.
The broader Dallas metro area comprises 13 counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Kaufman County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 35,728 confirmed infections in Kaufman County, or 30,046 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Kaufman County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Dallas 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 451 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Kaufman County, compared to 263 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 20, 2022.
These are all the counties in Texas where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Kaufman County, TX | 30,046 | 35,728 | 451 | 536 |
2 | Ellis County, TX | 29,168 | 49,246 | 345 | 582 |
3 | Rockwall County, TX | 28,654 | 26,832 | 284 | 266 |
4 | Tarrant County, TX | 28,214 | 569,925 | 293 | 5,927 |
5 | Johnson County, TX | 26,876 | 43,936 | 450 | 735 |
6 | Parker County, TX | 26,867 | 34,874 | 347 | 450 |
7 | Wise County, TX | 26,397 | 17,063 | 418 | 270 |
8 | Somervell County, TX | 24,214 | 2,117 | 412 | 36 |
9 | Hood County, TX | 23,687 | 13,478 | 482 | 274 |
10 | Collin County, TX | 22,925 | 216,494 | 160 | 1,508 |
11 | Denton County, TX | 22,452 | 181,197 | 168 | 1,354 |
12 | Dallas County, TX | 22,222 | 574,771 | 262 | 6,774 |
13 | Hunt County, TX | 17,172 | 15,824 | 394 | 363 |
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