Special Report

This Is the County in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: November 24, 2021 4:45 am

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, 47,257,270 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 765,010 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 Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin metropolitan area, located in Tennessee, a total of 361,201 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 19,376 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 14,444 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are higher in Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin than they are nationwide, some parts of the metro area are safer than others.

The broader Nashville metro area comprises 14 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Cheatham County in Tennessee has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 7,096 infections in Cheatham County, or 17,772 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Cheatham County have the lowest per capita infection rate in the Nashville metro area, it also has a relatively low per capita fatality rate.

There have been a total of 190 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Cheatham County, below the 202 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Nov. 22, 2021.

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