Vaccination rate in Solano County? Dead last among Bay Area and nearby counties.

By Roger Straw, July 24, 2021

What is our vaccination rate and how do we compare with other California counties?

The numbers are always changing, of course.  And Solano County doesn’t report it on  their COVID Dashboard.  So I went digging.  Pretty interesting…

Los Angeles Times – Tracking coronavirus vaccinations in California

I went to latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/covid-19-vaccines-distribution/#county-comparison and scrolled down a bit to Vaccinations by county.

There you will see that as of 9:23am on July 24, among all Californians, 52.7% are fully vaccinated, meaning they have either received both shots of a two-dose regime from Pfizer or Moderna, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Solano County had administered 458,724 doses of vaccine.  58.4% of county residents had received at least one dose, but only 48.8% were fully vaccinated.

Our fully vaccinated rate of 48.8% puts us right around average, ranking 27th among California’s 58 counties.  Our one-dose measure ranks us a little better, 22nd out of 58 counties.

It’s interesting to compare Solano to our Bay Area neighbors: among the fully vaccinated, Solano ranks dead last among our 9 Bay Area and nearby neighbor counties.

Rank County Doses administered At least 1 dose Fully vaccinated
1 Marin 381,136 78.20% 72.20%
2 San Francisco 1,221,452 76.10% 69.60%
3 Santa Clara 2,655,770 74.50% 68.30%
4 San Mateo 1,045,079 73.80% 67.10%
5 Contra Costa 1,484,380 69.90% 65.10%
6 Alameda 2,127,975 70.80% 64.80%
7 Napa 178,871 69.50% 61.10%
8 Sonoma 621,710 67.00% 60.40%
9 Santa Cruz 328,312 65.50% 57.00%
10 Yolo 245,168 62.00% 55.10%
11 Sacramento 1,564,963 56.20% 50.00%
12 Solano 458,724 58.40% 48.80%

Only Sacramento County has fewer residents who have received only 1 dose.

And… vaccination rates by Solano cities and zip codes – Benicia at 80%!

I tracked down Benicia’s vaccination rate on the State of California’s Open Data Portal.  It’s complicated, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how I got there, but here’s the page you want: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ca.open.data/viz/LHJVaccineEquityPerformance/MapView.  This will open a map showing the instruction, “Click anywhere to load an interactive data experience.”  You click on the map and another map that looks identical opens.  But this map is interactive – click the + (plus sign) 2 or 3 times to enlarge the map, and then you can hover your mouse over our Solano cities and zips for detailed information.  Here’s what I found hovering over Benicia (click the image to enlarge).

In Benicia, zip code 94510, we have a vaccination rate among the 24,819 of us who are 12 years and older… of 80%!

You can explore the map to see your city’s zip code.  But I’ll save you a trip – here are the Solano cities/zips I was able to find AS OF TODAY.  Note that these numbers are all higher than the LA Times numbers above.  I suspect that is because this data calculates a percentage based on residents 12+ while the LA Times most likely uses total population.

Solano County zip code 12+ Population Share of population vaccinated
Benicia 94510 24,819 80%
Vallejo 94589 26,451 74%
Vallejo 94590 31,869 70%
Vallejo 94591 48,466 71%
Vallejo / Mare Island 94592 830 86%
Vallejo all zips 107,616 75%
Suisun City 94585 24,994 62%
Green Valley/Ffield 94534 33,547 80%
Fairfield 94533 62,858 61%
Travis AFB 94535 2,546 18%
Vacaville 95687 59,036 52%
Vacaville 95688 31,725 64%
Elmira 95625 74 100%
Dixon 95620 18,303 64%
Rio Vista 94571 10,004 71%

Something is surely off about the Travis numbers.  Is the Air Base not reporting?

Interesting that EVERYONE in Elmira is vaccinated!