Special Report

COVID-19: This is the Least Dangerous County in the Corpus Christi, TX Metro Area

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 9, 2021 2:30 am

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the United States. To date, 32,167,970 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 572,987 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 Corpus Christi metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 47,536 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 10,510 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 9,832 cases per 100,000 people.

Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are higher in Corpus Christi than they are nationwide, there are still parts of the metro area where the per capita infection rate is relatively low.

The broader Corpus Christi metro area comprises three counties or county equivalents — and of them, Aransas County in Texas has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,248 infections in Aransas County, or 5,040 for every 100,000 people.

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

There have been a total of 157 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Aransas County, below the 220 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Corpus Christi metro area.

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

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