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This Is the County in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

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Samuel Stebbins
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To date, 88,027,926 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 — and over 1 million 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 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan area, located in Georgia, a total of 1,441,488 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 24,942 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 26,906 cases per 100,000 people.

The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is being driven by one area in particular.

The broader Atlanta metro area comprises 29 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Heard County in Georgia has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 2,252 confirmed infections in Heard County, or 19,286 for every 100,000 people.

Though Heard County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Atlanta metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.

There have been a total of 480 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Heard County, above the 284 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of July 17, 2022.

These are all the counties in Georgia 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
1 Heard County, GA 19,286 2,252 480 56
2 Haralson County, GA 19,412 5,621 615 178
3 Carroll County, GA 21,442 24,877 403 468
4 Meriwether County, GA 22,441 4,738 696 147
5 DeKalb County, GA 22,450 166,842 240 1,784
6 Fayette County, GA 22,606 25,176 297 331
7 Rockdale County, GA 22,798 20,293 370 329
8 Fulton County, GA 23,709 242,280 235 2,405
9 Jasper County, GA 23,970 3,304 530 73
10 Clayton County, GA 24,654 68,703 358 999
11 Newton County, GA 24,739 26,346 435 463
12 Gwinnett County, GA 24,967 225,281 213 1,921
13 Coweta County, GA 25,391 35,679 355 499
14 Walton County, GA 25,495 22,979 483 435
15 Cobb County, GA 25,627 190,938 252 1,881
16 Morgan County, GA 26,010 4,743 384 70
17 Spalding County, GA 26,108 16,897 658 426
18 Paulding County, GA 26,131 40,723 281 438
19 Douglas County, GA 26,535 37,637 291 413
20 Forsyth County, GA 26,826 58,986 187 412
21 Lamar County, GA 27,521 5,095 621 115
22 Cherokee County, GA 27,869 67,418 267 646
23 Henry County, GA 28,212 62,435 315 697
24 Pickens County, GA 28,519 8,793 555 171
25 Butts County, GA 28,863 6,855 682 162
26 Bartow County, GA 29,553 30,623 435 451
27 Barrow County, GA 29,842 22,945 339 261
28 Dawson County, GA 30,661 7,316 423 101
29 Pike County, GA 31,595 5,713 542 98

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