For the fourth 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 6.
Below is a list of the 50 Massachusetts communities with the highest rates of positive COVID-19 cases right now:
- Chelsea – 2,244 cases, 5,957.85 rate
- Brockton – 3,179 cases, 3,235.68 rate
- Lynn – 2,536 cases, 2,513.3 rate
- Everett – 1,212 cases, 2,497.1 rate
- Lawrence – 1,975 cases, 2,239.84 rate
- Randolph – 735 cases, 2,147.93 rate
- Revere – 1,307 cases, 2,145.57 rate
- Danvers – 539 cases, 1,887.53 rate
- Stoughton – 485 cases, 1,753.59 rate
- Lowell – 2,002 cases, 1,713.18 rate
- Topsfield – 100 cases, 1,711.18 rate
- Braintree – 668 cases, 1,697.17 rate
- Holyoke – 678 cases, 1,645.46 rate
- Milford – 470 cases, 1,603.92 rate
- Shirley – 134 cases, 1,589.73 rate
- Worcester – 2,989 cases, 1,557.84 rate
- Framingham – 1,159 cases, 1,556.41 rate
- Boston – 10,729 cases, 1,543.81 rate
- Norwood – 441 cases, 1,464.52 rate
- Tewksbury – 429 cases, 1,393.28 rate
- Saugus – 391 cases, 1,375.53 rate
- Medford – 829 cases, 1,363.16 rate
- Holbrook – 153 cases, 1,354.58 rate
- Raynham – 201 cases, 1,345.65 rate
- Stoneham – 300 cases, 1,345.05 rate
- Marlborough – 581 cases, 1,337.51 rate
- Westborough – 251 cases, 1,332.12 rate
- Peabody – 740 cases, 1,326.98 rate
- Malden – 897 cases, 1,323.91 rate
- Waltham – 872 cases, 1,308.14 rate
- Wrentham – 145 cases, 1,286.09 rate
- Avon – 56 cases, 1,278.34 rate
- Bedford – 190 cases, 1,275.48 rate
- Haverhill – 833 cases, 1,265.08 rate
- Rockland – 227 cases, 1,258.56 rate
- Middleton – 128 cases, 1,240.39 rate
- Methuen – 664 cases, 1,239.94 rate
- Longmeadow – 189 cases, 1,218.59 rate
- Taunton – 690 cases, 1,204.63 rate
- Millbury – 164 cases, 1,200.84 rate
- East Longmeadow – 200 cases, 1,182.42 rate
- Wilmington – 288 cases, 1,181.63 rate
- Agawam – 333 cases, 1,164.16 rate
- Northbridge – 206 cases, 1,145.44 rate
- Templeton – 98 cases, 1,097.31 rate
- Northborough – 150 cases, 1,095.63 rate
- Williamstown – 80 cases, 1,085.67 rate
- Dracut – 349 cases, 1,080.32 rate
- Dedham – 290 cases, 1,069.13 rate
- Beverly – 440 cases, 1,068.83 rate
Rate per 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases (Jan. 1-May 6, 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.
