The following table shows U.S. states and territories ranked not by total cases (where states with large populations largely top the list), but rather by total cases per million residents, which we believe is a far more meaningful number.
Using data through Thursday, April 9th, the table below shows New York has the highest number of COVID-19 cases to date per million state residents (8.232, which is up from 6,724 three days earlier), and that the count of total cases grew 7% on April 6th. New York has also has seen the most deaths to date per million residents (360, which is up from 243 three days earlier), with that number having grown 13% on April 9th.
Note that California, while in the news regularly due to its large population, ranks well below the national average in both cases and deaths per million residents, perhaps because it has been very aggressive in its response to the crisis.
(Data through 4/9/20; data source Worldometers.info/coronavirus.)
| Rank | Total cases/1M pop | April 9th increase | Rank | Total deaths/1M pop | April 9th increase | ||
| New York | #1 | 8,232 | 7% | #1 | 360 | 13% | |
| New Jersey | #2 | 5,745 | 8% | #2 | 191 | 13% | |
| Louisiana | #3 | 3,920 | 7% | #3 | 151 | 8% | |
| Massachusetts | #4 | 2,773 | 13% | #6 | 74 | 16% | |
| Connecticut | #5 | 2,732 | 11% | #5 | 106 | 13% | |
| D.C. | #6 | 2,225 | 6% | #8 | 47 | 19% | |
| Michigan | #7 | 2,160 | 6% | #4 | 108 | 12% | |
| Rhode Island | #8 | 1,634 | 19% | #9 | 41 | 23% | |
| Pennsylvania | #9 | 1,450 | 11% | #15 | 28 | 15% | |
| Washington | #10 | 1,323 | 3% | #7 | 62 | 6% | |
| Illinois | #11 | 1,281 | 9% | #10 | 41 | 14% | |
| Delaware | #12 | 1,273 | 8% | #18 | 24 | 21% | |
| Colorado | #13 | 1,121 | 10% | #11 | 41 | 17% | |
| Georgia | #14 | 1,057 | 7% | #12 | 40 | 11% | |
| Maryland | #15 | 1,030 | 12% | #19 | 23 | 11% | |
| Vermont | #16 | 1,005 | 4% | #13 | 37 | 0% | |
| Indiana | #17 | 957 | 7% | #14 | 37 | 21% | |
| Nevada | #18 | 840 | 6% | #16 | 27 | 13% | |
| Florida | #19 | 817 | 7% | #22 | 18 | 15% | |
| Idaho | #20 | 802 | 10% | #28 | 14 | 33% | |
| Mississippi | #21 | 756 | 13% | #17 | 25 | 13% | |
| Tennessee | #22 | 697 | 6% | #29 | 14 | 19% | |
| Utah | #23 | 649 | 7% | #49 | 4 | 0% | |
| New Hampsh | #24 | 610 | 4% | #25 | 16 | 17% | |
| Alabama | #25 | 583 | 14% | #26 | 16 | 16% | |
| Missouri | #26 | 581 | 3% | #27 | 15 | 7% | |
| South Carolina | #27 | 563 | 9% | #30 | 14 | 6% | |
| South Dakota | #28 | 517 | 14% | #43 | 7 | 0% | |
| California | #29 | 510 | 6% | #31 | 14 | 12% | |
| Wisconsin | #30 | 499 | 5% | #21 | 19 | 8% | |
| Virginia | #31 | 480 | 11% | #33 | 13 | 45% | |
| Ohio | #32 | 473 | 7% | #23 | 18 | 10% | |
| New Mexico | #33 | 473 | 14% | #41 | 8 | 6% | |
| Arizona | #34 | 434 | 11% | #34 | 13 | 11% | |
| Oklahoma | #35 | 430 | 10% | #20 | 20 | 1% | |
| Maine | #36 | 420 | 4% | #35 | 12 | 14% | |
| Wyoming | #37 | 411 | 4% | #52 | 0 | 0% | |
| Texas | #38 | 410 | 14% | #42 | 8 | 14% | |
| Iowa | #39 | 405 | 11% | #38 | 9 | 7% | |
| Arkansas | #40 | 383 | 6% | #44 | 7 | 17% | |
| Kansas | #41 | 380 | 6% | #32 | 14 | 11% | |
| North Carolina | #42 | 376 | 7% | #45 | 7 | 19% | |
| North Dakota | #43 | 358 | 7% | #46 | 7 | 25% | |
| Montana | #44 | 340 | 7% | #48 | 6 | 0% | |
| Kentucky | #45 | 327 | 8% | #24 | 18 | 8% | |
| Oregon | #46 | 324 | 7% | #37 | 11 | 16% | |
| Alaska | #47 | 318 | 4% | #39 | 9 | 0% | |
| Hawaii | #48 | 311 | 2% | #50 | 4 | 20% | |
| Nebraska | #49 | 298 | 9% | #47 | 7 | 17% | |
| West Virginia | #50 | 286 | 8% | #51 | 3 | 25% | |
| Minnesota | #51 | 225 | 8% | #40 | 9 | 28% | |
| Puerto Rico | #52 | 202 | 10% | #36 | 12 | 67% | |
| Average | 1,416 | 8% | 50 | 13% |
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