Special Report
This Is the County in the Knoxville, TN Metro Area With the Least COVID-19
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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, 45,027,013 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 728,404 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 Knoxville metropolitan area, located in Tennessee, a total of 151,828 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 17,482 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 13,763 cases per 100,000 people.
Though per capita cases of COVID-19 are higher in Knoxville than they are nationwide, some parts of the metro area are safer than others.
The broader Knoxville metro area comprises nine counties or county equivalents — and of them, Union County in Tennessee has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 3,092 infections in Union County, or 16,027 for every 100,000 people.
Though Union County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Knoxville metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.
There have been a total of 238 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Union County, above the 216 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Knoxville metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 25, 2021.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Union County, TN | 16,027 | 3,092 | 238 | 46 |
2 | Anderson County, TN | 16,962 | 12,853 | 284 | 215 |
3 | Knox County, TN | 17,110 | 78,054 | 200 | 911 |
4 | Morgan County, TN | 17,457 | 3,770 | 218 | 47 |
5 | Loudon County, TN | 17,580 | 9,073 | 184 | 95 |
6 | Campbell County, TN | 18,071 | 7,172 | 199 | 79 |
7 | Blount County, TN | 18,351 | 23,571 | 206 | 265 |
8 | Grainger County, TN | 18,759 | 4,317 | 287 | 66 |
9 | Roane County, TN | 18,765 | 9,926 | 282 | 149 |
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