Special Report

This Is the County in the Peoria, IL Metro Area With the Least COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 13, 2021 4:30 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, 43,792,254 Americans have been infected with the virus — and 703,599 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 Peoria metropolitan area, located in Illinois, a total of 54,569 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 14,574 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 13,385 cases per 100,000 people.

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

The broader Peoria metro area comprises five counties or county equivalents — and of them, Marshall County in Illinois has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,388 infections in Marshall County, or 11,769 for every 100,000 people.

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

There have been a total of 178 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Marshall County, below the 222 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Peoria metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 8, 2021.

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