Special Report

These Are the Counties in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: December 1, 2021 3:30 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, 47,702,004 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 770,162 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area, located in California, a total of 358,731 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 7,676 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 14,580 cases per 100,000 people.

The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward is being driven by one area in particular.

The broader San Francisco metro area comprises five counties or county equivalents — and of them, San Francisco County in California has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 56,562 infections in San Francisco County, or 6,501 for every 100,000 people.

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

There have been a total of 77 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in San Francisco County, below the 87 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Nov. 26, 2021.

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