Special Report
This Is the County in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area With the Least COVID-19
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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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 1,875,923 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 25,857 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 26,906 cases per 100,000 people.
Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are closely in line with the national per capita infection rate in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, there are still parts of the metro area where the per capita infection rate is relatively low.
The broader Dallas metro area comprises 13 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Hunt County in Texas has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 16,508 confirmed infections in Hunt County, or 17,914 for every 100,000 people.
Though Hunt County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Dallas metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.
There have been a total of 396 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Hunt County, above the 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 July 17, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hunt County, TX | 17,914 | 16,508 | 396 | 365 |
| 2 | Dallas County, TX | 23,434 | 606,133 | 263 | 6,800 |
| 3 | Denton County, TX | 23,841 | 192,407 | 169 | 1,363 |
| 4 | Hood County, TX | 24,254 | 13,801 | 489 | 278 |
| 5 | Somervell County, TX | 24,374 | 2,131 | 412 | 36 |
| 6 | Collin County, TX | 24,712 | 233,368 | 161 | 1,519 |
| 7 | Wise County, TX | 27,247 | 17,612 | 422 | 273 |
| 8 | Parker County, TX | 27,847 | 36,146 | 349 | 453 |
| 9 | Johnson County, TX | 27,936 | 45,668 | 455 | 743 |
| 10 | Tarrant County, TX | 29,471 | 595,311 | 295 | 5,966 |
| 11 | Rockwall County, TX | 30,030 | 28,121 | 286 | 268 |
| 12 | Ellis County, TX | 30,414 | 51,350 | 346 | 585 |
| 13 | Kaufman County, TX | 31,425 | 37,367 | 450 | 535 |
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