Provisional COVID-19 Deaths by Week and Urbanicity

Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Metadata Last Checked: June 26, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-04-21

Effective September 27, 2023, this dataset will no longer be updated. Similar data are accessible from wonder.cdc.gov. Provisional COVID-19 deaths by urbanicity and week. Deaths are based on the county of occurrence in the United States. Urbanicity is defined as metropolitan and non-metropolitan, based on the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties. Counties are classified as “metropolitan” if they are large central metro, large fringe metro, medium metro or small metro; and “non-metropolitan” if micropolitan or non-core.

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "009:20" ]
identifier	https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/hkhc-f7hg
issued	2021-03-24
landingPage	https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/covid-19-mortality-data-files.htm
programCode	[ "009:020" ]
spatial	United States
temporal	2019-12-29/2023-07-29
theme	[ "National Center for Health Statistics" ]