Special Report

This Is the County in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 19, 2021 5:15 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, there have been 44,408,600 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metropolitan area, located in Colorado, a total of 348,333 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 12,221 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 13,574 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Denver-Aurora-Lakewood has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Denver metro area comprises 10 counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Adams County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 72,851 infections in Adams County, or 14,655 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Adams County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Denver 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 164 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Adams County, compared to 135 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 15, 2021.

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