Special Report

This is the County in the Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: June 11, 2021 5:30 am

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 33,056,400 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metropolitan area, located in California, a total of 154,576 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 6,745 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 10,104 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area that appear to be higher risk than others.

The broader Sacramento metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Sacramento County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 106,961 infections in Sacramento County, or 7,083 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Sacramento County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Sacramento 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 114 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Sacramento County, compared to 102 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of June 9, 2021.

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