Special Report

This Is the County in the Johnson City, TN Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 4:00 am

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.

In the Johnson City metropolitan area, located in Tennessee, a total of 60,599 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 30,115 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Johnson City is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Johnson City metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Washington County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 38,862 confirmed infections in Washington County, or 30,587 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Washington County than they are across all of the Johnson City area, however. There have been a total of 389 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Washington County, compared to 460 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Johnson City metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 13, 2022.

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