COVID-19 Racial/Ethnic Mortality Disparities

Data source: CDC Provisional and final COVID-19 deaths by county and race.

Highest COVID-19 mortality disparity per county

*Note: disparity is the ratio of percentage of COVID-19 related deaths to the percentage of the total population for a given racial/ethnic group.

You may scroll within the bar chart below to view more counties.

You may click on a race/ethnicity category to filter either chart.

In the chart below, each county in the dataset is represented by a single dot. Dots are colored by the racial/ethnic group with the largest disparity as in the bar chart above. Counties with lower disparity ratios are positioned towards the left, those with higher disparity ratios are towards the right of the chart.

You may zoom and pan on the map below as well as hover on a county to view its disparity ratio.