Special Report

This Is the County in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 25, 2022 3:45 am

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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming metropolitan area, located in Michigan, a total of 278,534 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 26,516 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 25,130 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are higher in Grand Rapids-Wyoming than they are nationwide, some parts of the metro area are safer than others.

The broader Grand Rapids metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents — and of them, Montcalm County in Michigan has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 15,332 confirmed infections in Montcalm County, or 24,256 for every 100,000 people.

Though Montcalm County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Grand Rapids metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.

There have been a total of 335 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Montcalm County, above the 258 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Grand Rapids-Wyoming metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 23, 2022.

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