Vallejo, CA Metro Area Among the Safest in America – 24/7 Wall St.

The U.S. reported over 289,000 new cases of coronavirus on July 20, bringing the total count to more than 33.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 603,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country.

New cases continue to rise at a steady rate. In the past week, there were an average of 7.5 daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 Americans — essentially unchanged from the week prior, when there were an average of 4.5 daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 people.

While new data shows that the risk of contracting COVID-19 is high in almost every part of the country, cities continue to be the sites of major outbreaks and superspreader events. Experts agree that the virus is more likely to spread in group settings where large numbers of people routinely have close contact with one another, such as colleges, nursing homes, bars, and restaurants. Metropolitan areas with a high degree of connectivity between different neighborhoods and a large population may be particularly at-risk.

The Vallejo, CA metro area consists of just Solano County. As of July 20, there were 7,837.9 confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 Vallejo residents, the 47th lowest rate of all 383 metro areas with available data. For comparison, the U.S. has so far reported 10,449.4 cases per 100,000 Americans nationwide.

In order to slow the spread of COVID-19, city and county governments have ordered the closure of thousands of consumer-facing businesses. These measures have led to widespread job loss and record unemployment. In the Vallejo metro area, unemployment peaked at 15.3% in April 2020. As of May 2021, the metro area’s unemployment rate was 7.8%.

To determine how the incidence of COVID-19 in the Vallejo, CA metro area compares to the rest of the country, 24/7 Wall St. compiled and reviewed data from state and local health departments. We ranked metro areas based on the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents.To estimate the incidence of COVID-19 at the metropolitan level, we aggregated data from the county level using boundary definitions from the U.S. Census Bureau. Population data used to adjust case and death totals came from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey and are five-year estimates. Unemployment data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is seasonally adjusted.

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

FIPS	MSA	Population	Confirmed COVID-19 cases as of July 20	Confirmed COVID-19 cases as of July 20 per 100,000 residents	Cumulative COVID-19 deaths as of July 20	Cumulative COVID-19 deaths as of July 20 per 100,000 residents
20940	El Centro, CA	180,701	28,840	15,960.1	745	412.3
25260	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	150,691	23,267	15,440.2	248	164.6
40140	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	4,560,470	604,307	13,251.0	9,865	216.3
12540	Bakersfield, CA	887,641	111,687	12,582.5	1,414	159.3
32900	Merced, CA	271,382	32,621	12,020.3	483	178.0
33700	Modesto, CA	543,194	64,381	11,852.3	1,082	199.2
31080	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	13,249,614	1,543,218	11,647.3	29,719	224.3
47300	Visalia, CA	461,898	49,964	10,817.1	854	184.9
31460	Madera, CA	155,433	16,804	10,811.1	248	159.6
23420	Fresno, CA	984,521	103,055	10,467.5	1,730	175.7
41500	Salinas, CA	433,410	44,131	10,182.3	518	119.5
44700	Stockton, CA	742,603	75,500	10,166.9	1,446	194.7
37100	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	847,263	82,342	9,718.6	1,041	122.9
49700	Yuba City, CA	172,469	16,562	9,602.9	166	96.2
41740	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	3,316,073	286,286	8,633.3	3,786	114.2
42200	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	444,829	34,924	7,851.1	461	103.6
46700	Vallejo, CA	441,829	34,630	7,837.9	263	59.5
42020	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	282,165	21,588	7,650.8	264	93.6
34900	Napa, CA	139,623	10,159	7,276.0	81	58.0
39820	Redding, CA	179,212	12,693	7,082.7	242	135.0
40900	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	2,315,980	160,129	6,914.1	2,394	103.4
41940	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	1,987,846	126,808	6,379.2	2,160	108.7
42220	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	499,772	31,763	6,355.5	327	65.4
42100	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	273,962	16,375	5,977.1	207	75.6
17020	Chico, CA	225,817	12,824	5,678.9	202	89.5
41860	San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA	4,701,332	261,575	5,563.8	3,473	73.9