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, there have been 47,702,000 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 1,188,776 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 16,386 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 14,580 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
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 24,241 infections in Kaufman County, or 20,386 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 368 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Kaufman County, compared to 213 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 Nov. 26, 2021.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaufman County, TX | 20,386 | 24,241 | 368 | 438 |
| 2 | Ellis County, TX | 20,167 | 34,050 | 284 | 479 |
| 3 | Parker County, TX | 19,094 | 24,785 | 264 | 343 |
| 4 | Rockwall County, TX | 19,020 | 17,811 | 238 | 223 |
| 5 | Tarrant County, TX | 18,305 | 369,762 | 241 | 4,877 |
| 6 | Johnson County, TX | 17,869 | 29,212 | 347 | 568 |
| 7 | Wise County, TX | 17,867 | 11,549 | 319 | 206 |
| 8 | Hood County, TX | 17,348 | 9,871 | 371 | 211 |
| 9 | Somervell County, TX | 17,214 | 1,505 | 275 | 24 |
| 10 | Dallas County, TX | 15,948 | 412,507 | 216 | 5,582 |
| 11 | Collin County, TX | 13,972 | 131,941 | 123 | 1,161 |
| 12 | Denton County, TX | 13,686 | 110,452 | 130 | 1,046 |
| 13 | Hunt County, TX | 12,034 | 11,090 | 339 | 312 |
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