Special Report
This Is the County in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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There have been 85,673,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 1,825,292 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 25,159 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 26,186 cases per 100,000 people.
Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.
The broader Dallas metro area comprises 13 counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Kaufman County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 36,470 confirmed infections in Kaufman County, or 30,670 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Kaufman County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Dallas 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 450 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Kaufman County, compared to 264 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of June 26, 2022.
These are all the counties in Texas where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Kaufman County, TX | 30,670 | 36,470 | 450 | 535 |
2 | Ellis County, TX | 29,741 | 50,214 | 346 | 584 |
3 | Rockwall County, TX | 29,329 | 27,464 | 285 | 267 |
4 | Tarrant County, TX | 28,747 | 580,677 | 295 | 5,951 |
5 | Parker County, TX | 27,356 | 35,508 | 347 | 451 |
6 | Johnson County, TX | 27,353 | 44,715 | 451 | 737 |
7 | Wise County, TX | 26,786 | 17,314 | 419 | 271 |
8 | Somervell County, TX | 24,294 | 2,124 | 412 | 36 |
9 | Hood County, TX | 23,964 | 13,636 | 489 | 278 |
10 | Collin County, TX | 23,830 | 225,043 | 160 | 1,510 |
11 | Denton County, TX | 23,128 | 186,656 | 169 | 1,360 |
12 | Dallas County, TX | 22,787 | 589,389 | 262 | 6,786 |
13 | Hunt County, TX | 17,452 | 16,082 | 394 | 363 |
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