Special Report

This Is the County in the Rochester, NY Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 26, 2021 5:30 am

Following a months long surge driven by the delta variant, new daily cases of COVID-19 are falling once again in the United States. To date, there have been 44,940,700 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Rochester metropolitan area, located in New York, a total of 113,158 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 10,530 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 13,736 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Rochester has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area that appear to be higher risk than others.

The broader Rochester metro area comprises six counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Monroe County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 84,045 infections in Monroe County, or 11,293 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Monroe County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Rochester area, it also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metro area as a whole. There have been a total of 159 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Monroe County, compared to 146 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Rochester metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 22, 2021.

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