Special Report

These Are the Counties in the Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 20, 2021 4:00 am

Following a months long surge driven by the delta variant, new daily cases of COVID-19 are falling once again in the United States. To date, 44,501,723 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 716,720 have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.

In the Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metropolitan area, located in California, a total of 233,350 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 10,182 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 13,602 cases per 100,000 people.

The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade is being driven by one area in particular.

The broader Sacramento metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents — and of them, El Dorado County in California has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 16,947 infections in El Dorado County, or 9,079 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does El Dorado County have the lowest per capita infection rate in the Sacramento metro area, it also has a relatively low per capita fatality rate.

There have been a total of 80 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in El Dorado County, below the 134 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 Oct. 18, 2021.

These are all the counties in California where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).