Special Report
This Is the County in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area With the Least COVID-19
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To date, 82,217,041 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 — and over 1 million 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan area, located in Georgia, a total of 1,347,620 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 23,317 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 25,130 cases per 100,000 people.
The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is being driven by one area in particular.
The broader Atlanta metro area comprises 29 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Heard County in Georgia has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 2,175 confirmed infections in Heard County, or 18,626 for every 100,000 people.
Though Heard County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Atlanta metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.
There have been a total of 462 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Heard County, above the 279 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 23, 2022.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Heard County, GA | 18,626 | 2,175 | 462 | 54 |
2 | Haralson County, GA | 18,715 | 5,419 | 604 | 175 |
3 | Carroll County, GA | 20,536 | 23,826 | 397 | 461 |
4 | Fayette County, GA | 20,622 | 22,966 | 288 | 321 |
5 | DeKalb County, GA | 20,661 | 153,548 | 235 | 1,749 |
6 | Rockdale County, GA | 21,105 | 18,786 | 364 | 324 |
7 | Meriwether County, GA | 21,219 | 4,480 | 687 | 145 |
8 | Fulton County, GA | 21,889 | 223,684 | 230 | 2,350 |
9 | Jasper County, GA | 22,911 | 3,158 | 530 | 73 |
10 | Clayton County, GA | 23,255 | 64,804 | 351 | 977 |
11 | Newton County, GA | 23,365 | 24,883 | 429 | 457 |
12 | Gwinnett County, GA | 23,422 | 211,339 | 210 | 1,891 |
13 | Coweta County, GA | 23,792 | 33,431 | 349 | 491 |
14 | Cobb County, GA | 23,819 | 177,464 | 245 | 1,826 |
15 | Walton County, GA | 24,322 | 21,922 | 483 | 435 |
16 | Paulding County, GA | 24,691 | 38,479 | 278 | 434 |
17 | Spalding County, GA | 24,701 | 15,986 | 651 | 421 |
18 | Douglas County, GA | 24,847 | 35,243 | 286 | 405 |
19 | Morgan County, GA | 25,111 | 4,579 | 384 | 70 |
20 | Forsyth County, GA | 25,211 | 55,433 | 183 | 402 |
21 | Lamar County, GA | 26,295 | 4,868 | 610 | 113 |
22 | Cherokee County, GA | 26,372 | 63,797 | 261 | 632 |
23 | Henry County, GA | 26,446 | 58,527 | 311 | 688 |
24 | Pickens County, GA | 27,118 | 8,361 | 548 | 169 |
25 | Butts County, GA | 27,621 | 6,560 | 665 | 158 |
26 | Bartow County, GA | 28,465 | 29,495 | 432 | 448 |
27 | Barrow County, GA | 28,649 | 22,027 | 333 | 256 |
28 | Dawson County, GA | 28,964 | 6,911 | 423 | 101 |
29 | Pike County, GA | 30,246 | 5,469 | 542 | 98 |
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