Special Report

This Is the County in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area with the Most Deaths from COVID-19

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Samuel Stebbins
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More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19 – more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.

In the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metropolitan area, which covers parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, a total of 7,669 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 216 fatalities for every 100,000 people. Nationwide, 310 deaths have been attributed to the virus per 100,000 people.

Though deaths attributable to the virus are less common across the metro area than they are nationwide, this is not the case in some parts of the city.

The broader Minneapolis metro area comprises 16 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Mille Lacs County has had the most COVID-19 fatalities per capita. So far, the per capita coronavirus death rate in Mille Lacs County stands at 455 for every 100,000 people.

Though it has the highest per capita death rate in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area, Mille Lacs County ranks among the middle 50% of all U.S. counties or county equivalents by COVID-19 death rate per capita.

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

These are all the counties in Minnesota where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it’s still getting worse).

Rank Geography Deaths per 100,000 people Total deaths Confirmed cases per 100,000 people Total confirmed cases
1 Mille Lacs County, MN 455 117 29,703 7,642
2 Isanti County, MN 308 120 27,449 10,698
3 Ramsey County, MN 254 1,375 25,688 139,101
4 Anoka County, MN 233 810 30,584 106,257
5 Wright County, MN 233 309 29,133 38,672
6 Chisago County, MN 219 120 28,381 15,532
7 Hennepin County, MN 214 2,645 27,423 338,802
8 Sherburne County, MN 196 183 30,801 28,716
9 Washington County, MN 196 496 29,084 73,675
10 Dakota County, MN 192 803 29,016 121,346
11 Scott County, MN 186 266 30,371 43,543
12 Le Sueur County, MN 182 51 24,258 6,788
13 St. Croix County, WI 176 155 30,810 27,087
14 Pierce County, WI 175 73 29,611 12,319
15 Sibley County, MN 174 26 25,174 3,754
16 Carver County, MN 120 120 28,927 29,047

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