COVID vaccinated adults in urban vs rural U.S. 2021

Between December 2020 and April 2021, COVID-19 vaccination coverage was nearly 7 percent higher in urban areas compared to rural areas. This statistic shows the percentage of adults in urban vs rural U.S. vaccinated against COVID-19 from December 2020 to April 2021.

Percentage of adults in urban vs rural United States vaccinated against COVID-19 from December 2020 to April 2021*

Characteristic	Percentage of adults vaccinated
Overall	44.7%
Urban	45.7%
Rural	38.9%

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Release date

May 2021

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Region

United States

Survey time period

December 14, 2020 to April 10, 2021

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

* Vaccinated = adults who received their first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, or a single dose of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine (Johnson & Johnson).
The source used the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) urban-rural classification scheme. To further classify counties into two categories (urban versus rural), four of these six categories (large central metropolitan, large fringe metropolitan, medium metropolitan, and small metropolitan) were combined into urban areas, and two (micropolitan and noncore) were combined into rural areas

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