Special Report

This Is the County in the Montgomery, AL Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 2:45 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 Montgomery metropolitan area, located in Alabama, a total of 97,157 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 26,006 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Montgomery , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Montgomery metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Elmore County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 23,410 confirmed infections in Elmore County, or 28,826 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Elmore County than they are across all of the Montgomery area, however. There have been a total of 427 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Elmore County, in line with 425 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Montgomery metro area.

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

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