Special Report

This Is the County in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: November 24, 2021 4:45 am

Despite the ongoing vaccination effort, new daily cases of COVID-19 are beginning to rise once again in parts of the United States. To date, 47,257,270 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 765,010 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 Cincinnati metropolitan area, which covers parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, a total of 314,019 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 14,479 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 14,444 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are closely in line with the national per capita infection rate in Cincinnati, there are still parts of the metro area where the per capita infection rate is relatively low.

The broader Cincinnati metro area comprises 15 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Franklin County in Indiana has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 2,786 infections in Franklin County, or 12,197 for every 100,000 people.

Though Franklin County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Cincinnati metro area, its per capita fatality rate is closely in line with the regional average.

There have been a total of 193 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Franklin County, compared to 185 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Cincinnati metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Nov. 22, 2021.

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