Special Report

These are the Counties in the Montgomery, AL Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: July 30, 2021 2:45 am

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 34,256,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Montgomery metropolitan area, located in Alabama, a total of 45,255 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 12,114 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 10,471 cases per 100,000 people.

The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Montgomery is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.

The broader Montgomery metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Lowndes County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 1,443 infections in Lowndes County, or 14,097 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Lowndes County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Montgomery 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 528 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Lowndes County, compared to 270 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Montgomery metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of July 28, 2021.

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