Special Report

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

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 4:30 am

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.

In the Peoria metropolitan area, located in Illinois, a total of 100,125 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 26,741 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

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

The broader Peoria metro area comprises five counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Tazewell County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 37,522 confirmed infections in Tazewell County, or 28,032 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does Tazewell County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Peoria 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 348 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Tazewell County, compared to 310 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Peoria metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 13, 2022.

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