Special Report
This is the County in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area with the Most Deaths from COVID-19
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The Biden Administration has announced that it expects to have enough coronavirus vaccines for every American adult by the end of May. Achieving this goal will, hopefully, allow life in the United States to return to some degree of normalcy after COVID-19 wreaked havoc for well over a year. So far, the virus has claimed 554,783 American lives — more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 10,435 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 144 fatalities for every 100,000 people. Nationwide, 170 deaths have been attributed to the virus per 100,000 people.
Though deaths attributable to the virus are less common across the metro area than they are nationwide, this is not the case in some parts of the city.
The broader Dallas metro area comprises 13 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Johnson County has had the most COVID-19 fatalities per capita. So far, the per capita coronavirus death rate in Johnson County stands at 221 for every 100,000 people.
Though it has the highest per capita death rate in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area, Johnson County ranks among the middle 50% of all U.S. counties or county equivalents with at least one COVID-19 fatality by death rate per capita.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of April 11, 2021.
These are all the counties in Texas where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).
Rank | Geography | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths | Confirmed cases per 100,000 people | Total confirmed cases |
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1 | Johnson County | 221 | 361 | 11,874 | 19,411 |
2 | Hood County | 216 | 123 | 11,295 | 6,427 |
3 | Kaufman County | 208 | 247 | 13,102 | 15,579 |
4 | Ellis County | 183 | 309 | 13,162 | 22,223 |
5 | Wise County | 181 | 117 | 11,148 | 7,206 |
6 | Hunt County | 178 | 164 | 5,966 | 5,498 |
7 | Tarrant County | 165 | 3,340 | 12,498 | 252,461 |
8 | Rockwall County | 161 | 151 | 11,950 | 11,190 |
9 | Somervell County | 160 | 14 | 12,101 | 1,058 |
10 | Dallas County | 151 | 3,899 | 11,334 | 293,150 |
11 | Parker County | 135 | 175 | 11,826 | 15,351 |
12 | Denton County | 91 | 733 | 8,983 | 72,498 |
13 | Collin County | 85 | 802 | 9,257 | 87,422 |
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