Special Report

This Is the County in the Lubbock, TX Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: July 20, 2022 3:00 am

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 Lubbock metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 100,873 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 32,215 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 26,906 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are higher in Lubbock than they are nationwide, some parts of the metro area are safer than others.

The broader Lubbock metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents — and of them, Lynn County in Texas has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,574 confirmed infections in Lynn County, or 27,101 for every 100,000 people.

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

There have been a total of 654 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Lynn County, above the 454 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Lubbock metro area.

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

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