Special Report

This Is the County in the Tulsa, OK Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: December 8, 2021 4:15 am

Despite the ongoing vaccination effort, new daily cases of COVID-19 are beginning to rise once again in parts of the United States. To date, 48,551,622 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 779,587 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 Tulsa metropolitan area, located in Oklahoma, a total of 169,189 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 17,172 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 14,840 cases per 100,000 people.

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

The broader Tulsa metro area comprises seven counties or county equivalents — and of them, Osage County in Oklahoma has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 7,218 infections in Osage County, or 15,256 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Osage County have the lowest per capita infection rate in the Tulsa metro area, it also has a relatively low per capita fatality rate.

There have been a total of 268 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Osage County, below the 283 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Tulsa metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Dec. 6, 2021.

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