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COVID-19 case rates increased in 49 of Minnesota’s 87 counties in the statewide weekly report released Thursday, with the highest rates typically located in greater Minnesota, particularly in areas from the north-west, the center-west and the extreme south.
Case rates in counties are based on the number of confirmed cases in a week per 10,000 people. The latest data represents positive cases from September 5 to 11, for which there are 26 counties with case rates above 30. Anything above 10 is a signal that there is widespread community transmission.
- Koochiching: 53.8 cases per 10,000 people
- Mahnomen: 50.9
- Steel: 49.9
- Free birth: 47.8
- Wadena: 45.4
- Waseca: 43.1
- Stevens: 42.9
- Cases: 41.7
- Pennington: 40.2
- Beltrami: 37.9
- Big stone: 37.9
- McLeod: 37.7
- Fill: 37.3
- Benton: 36.2
- Sibley: 35.5
- Watonwan: 34.6
- Chisago: 33.8
- Clay: 33.0
- Dodge: 33.0
- Mower: 32.6
- Becker: 32.0
- Grant: 32.0
- Hubbard: 31.2
- Polk: 30.4
- Faribault: 30.2
- Scott: 30.0
Case rates in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of seven counties also indicate that widespread community transmission is underway, but not at the levels seen in the aforementioned rural counties, with the exception of Scott County.
- Scott: 30.0
- Sculptor: 24.9
- Anoka: 24.3
- Washington: 20.4
- Dakota: 19.6
- Hennépin: 16.8
- Ramsey: 15.4
The latest MDH figures on Thursday show that only 37.5% of new COVID cases came from the 7-county Twin Cities metro, which comprises 55.5% of Minnesota’s total population.
Vaccination is not the only variable that can affect case rates – population density and having high transient active / tourist populations are others, for example. But it should be noted that the seven metropolitan counties are among the top 11 counties with the highest vaccination rates.
Top 11 counties for vaccination rates for ages 12 and over:
- Olmsted 84.5%
- Washington 79.9%
- Hennepin 79.3%
- Dakota 79.0%
- Sculptor 78.8%
- Cook 78.2%
- Scott 75.9%
- Ramsey 75.7%
- Lake 71.2%
- Carlton 70.0%
- Anoka 69.9%
But there are counties with low vaccination rates and relatively low COVID rates as well.
Clearwater County, which has the lowest single dose vaccination rate in the state with just 42.9% of its 7,400 eligible residents, has a rate of 20.9 cases per 10,000 residents and has fluctuated between 9 and 26 cases per 10,000 in the past month.
That said, an even smaller county than Clearwater (in terms of population and density) is Cook County, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the state (78.2% of over 12 years). In the last five reporting cycles, its rate of COVID cases has been 7.5, 15.1, 11.3, 13.2 and 5.6 per 10,000 people.
The same is true for Lake County, which has over 71% of its population aged 12 and over at least partially vaccinated. Her last five weekly case rates are 9.5, 5.7, 6.6, 6.6 and 13.2.
You can find more vaccination rates here. And for the full MDH County Case Rate report, click here and open the link that says “Weekly Case Rate by County of Residence”.
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