Special Report

This is the County in the Austin-Round Rock, TX Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: September 28, 2021 3:30 am

As the delta variant continues to surge, COVID-19 continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 42,301,000 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.

In the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area, located in Texas, a total of 237,035 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 11,516 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 12,929 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Austin-Round Rock has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Austin metro area comprises five counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Caldwell County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 8,058 infections in Caldwell County, or 19,463 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Caldwell County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Austin 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 316 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Caldwell County, compared to 123 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Austin-Round Rock metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Sept. 24, 2021.

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