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These Are the Counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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There have been 82,117,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.
In the New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan area, which covers parts of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, a total of 5,680,406 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 28,415 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 25,100 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across New York-Newark-Jersey City is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader New York metro area comprises 25 counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Richmond County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 174,223 confirmed infections in Richmond County, or 36,748 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Richmond County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the New York 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 492 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Richmond County, compared to 400 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 20, 2022.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Richmond County, NY | 36,748 | 174,223 | 492 | 2,332 |
2 | Nassau County, NY | 31,759 | 430,835 | 284 | 3,858 |
3 | Suffolk County, NY | 30,227 | 449,746 | 296 | 4,411 |
4 | Orange County, NY | 30,143 | 114,009 | 305 | 1,155 |
5 | Rockland County, NY | 29,980 | 97,041 | 278 | 901 |
6 | Passaic County, NJ | 29,941 | 150,916 | 464 | 2,339 |
7 | Queens County, NY | 29,317 | 673,865 | 517 | 11,889 |
8 | Bronx County, NY | 29,214 | 420,053 | 539 | 7,749 |
9 | Ocean County, NJ | 28,653 | 169,609 | 504 | 2,983 |
10 | Essex County, NJ | 28,288 | 224,482 | 456 | 3,615 |
11 | Kings County, NY | 28,279 | 735,473 | 495 | 12,861 |
12 | Monmouth County, NJ | 27,904 | 173,948 | 350 | 2,183 |
13 | Westchester County, NY | 27,633 | 267,711 | 281 | 2,723 |
14 | New York County,, NY | 27,572 | 450,109 | 335 | 5,468 |
15 | Union County, NJ | 27,523 | 152,222 | 427 | 2,359 |
16 | Hudson County, NJ | 27,026 | 180,705 | 408 | 2,725 |
17 | Bergen County, NJ | 26,050 | 242,269 | 372 | 3,462 |
18 | Morris County, NJ | 25,763 | 127,368 | 314 | 1,552 |
19 | Putnam County, NY | 25,418 | 25,182 | 126 | 125 |
20 | Sussex County, NJ | 25,175 | 35,823 | 335 | 476 |
21 | Middlesex County, NJ | 24,998 | 206,657 | 348 | 2,880 |
22 | Dutchess County, NY | 23,059 | 67,770 | 224 | 659 |
23 | Somerset County, NJ | 22,218 | 73,359 | 296 | 978 |
24 | Hunterdon County, NJ | 21,063 | 26,340 | 220 | 275 |
25 | Pike County, PA | 19,264 | 10,691 | 177 | 98 |
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