Special Report

This Is the County in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area with the Most Deaths from COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: October 22, 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. Still, the virus continues to claim lives. So far, 719,694 Americans have died from the virus — more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 14,303 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 197 fatalities for every 100,000 people. Nationwide, 220 deaths have been attributed to the virus per 100,000 people.

Though deaths attributable to the virus are less common across the metro area than they are nationwide, this is not the case in some parts of the city.

The broader Dallas metro area comprises 13 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Kaufman County has had the most COVID-19 fatalities per capita. So far, the per capita coronavirus death rate in Kaufman County stands at 341 for every 100,000 people.

With the highest per capita death rate in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area, Kaufman County ranks among the top 25% of all U.S. counties or county equivalents by COVID-19 death rate per capita.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Oct. 20, 2021.

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