For the fifth straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town.
Health officials also released data showing which communities had the highest rate of positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 1 through May 13.
Below is a list of the 50 Massachusetts communities with the highest rates of positive COVID-19 cases right now:
- Chelsea – 2,412 cases, 6,403.89 rate
- Brockton – 3,429 cases, 3,490.14 rate
- Everett – 1,366 cases, 2,814.38 rate
- Lynn – 2,834 cases, 2,808.63 rate
- Lawrence – 2,382 cases, 2,701.42 rate
- Revere – 1,403 cases, 2,303.16 rate
- Randolph – 787 cases, 2,299.89 rate
- Danvers – 616 cases, 2,157.18 rate
- Lowell – 2,215 cases, 1,895.45 rate
- Stoughton – 512 cases, 1,851.21 rate
- Worcester – 3,549 cases, 1,849.7 rate
- Braintree – 724 cases, 1,839.44 rate
- Topsfield – 106 cases, 1,813.85 rate
- Framingham – 1,347 cases, 1,808.87 rate
- Milford – 525 cases, 1,791.61
- Holyoke – 723 cases, 1,754.67 rate
- Shirley – 144 cases, 1,708.37 rate
- Boston – 11,551 cases, 1,662.09 rate
- Marlborough – 698 cases, 1,606.85 rate
- Tewksbury – 484 cases, 1,571.91 rate
- Norwood – 462 cases, 1,534.26 rate
- Wrentham – 172 cases, 1,525.57 rate
- Saugus – 432 cases, 1,519.77 rate
- Waltham – 994 cases, 1,491.16 rate
- Holbrook – 166 cases, 1,469.67 rate
- Malden – 986 cases, 1,455.27 rate
- Peabody – 809 cases, 1,450.71
- Westborough – 273 cases, 1,448.88 rate
- Stoneham – 322 cases, 1,443.69 rate
- Haverhill – 950 cases, 1,442.77 rate
- Bedford – 214 cases, 1,436.59 rate
- Medford – 870 cases, 1,430.58 rate
- Agawam – 404 cases, 1,412.37 rate
- Avon – 61 cases, 1,392.47 rate
- Raynham – 206 cases, 1,379.12 rate
- Methuen – 737 cases, 1,376.26 rate
- Rockland – 246 cases, 1,363.91 rate
- West Bridgewater – 98 cases, 1,352.19 rate
- East Longmeadow – 224 cases, 1,324.31 rate
- Taunton – 758 cases, 1,323.35 rate
- Northbridge – 235 cases, 1,306.69 rate
- Middleton – 132 cases, 1,279.15 rate
- Millbury – 173 cases, 1,266.74 rate
- Longmeadow – 195 cases, 1,257.27 rate
- Northborough – 171 cases, 1,249.01 rate
- New Bedford – 1,241 cases, 1,246.55 rate
- Fitchburg – 516 cases, 1,224.12 rate
- Wilbraham – 178 cases, 1,224 rate
- Wilmington – 298 cases, 1,222.65 rate
- Templeton – 109 cases, 1,220.47 rate
Rate per 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases (Jan. 1-May 13, 2020)
Most of these communities appeared on last week's list as well. Here is a closer look at that list, which was the third town-by-town breakdown released by the state.
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