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!
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