Special Report
This Is the Parish in the Baton Rouge, LA Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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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 Baton Rouge metropolitan area, located in Louisiana, a total of 207,341 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 24,992 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.
Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Baton Rouge , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.
The broader Baton Rouge metro area comprises nine counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, East Feliciana Parish has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 6,714 confirmed infections in East Feliciana Parish, or 34,433 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does East Feliciana Parish have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Baton Rouge 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 872 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in East Feliciana Parish, compared to 323 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Baton Rouge metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 13, 2022.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | East Feliciana Parish, LA | 34,433 | 6,714 | 872 | 170 |
2 | Ascension Parish, LA | 27,461 | 33,276 | 242 | 293 |
3 | West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 26,740 | 6,915 | 348 | 90 |
4 | Pointe Coupee Parish, LA | 26,659 | 5,907 | 420 | 93 |
5 | Iberville Parish, LA | 25,965 | 8,557 | 464 | 153 |
6 | Livingston Parish, LA | 25,537 | 35,269 | 337 | 466 |
7 | East Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 23,902 | 106,147 | 304 | 1,349 |
8 | St. Helena Parish, LA | 17,674 | 1,840 | 221 | 23 |
9 | West Feliciana Parish, LA | 17,663 | 2,716 | 299 | 46 |
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