This layer displays the median download speed for a county or tract as measured by the Ookla speed test, available at speedtest.net . Data was aggregated from January-June, 2020. Data was accessed via the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
View in Map RoomThis layer displays Broadband access information at the County, Tract, and Block Group Level as of June, 2020.
View in Map RoomThis layer displays the percent of people who use the internet at broadband speeds (Greater than 25 MBPS download speed). Data is derived from the Microsoft data science and analytics team, using anonymized user data and aggregated to the county level. State level averages were calculated by CARES using county averages weighted by population.
View in Map RoomClick the map link to view household broadband access rates from the 2015-19 American Community Survey (ACS) for counties, ZIP Codes, and other geographic areas. Check out other 2015-19 ACS updates by searching the Map Room for the terms 2019 ACS.
View in Map RoomThis layer displays the revised winning bid areas of the first phase of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, updated in October, 2021. Areas are no longer colored based on performance tier and latency as that data is not available in the updated dataset.
View in Map RoomThis layer displays Broadband access information at the County, Tract, and Block Group Level as of June, 2019.
View in Map RoomThis layer displays the maximum advertised download speed available from fixed internet (DSL, cable, fiber, etc.) and terrestrial/fixed wireless internet providers. Data are from the August, 2019 release of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Fixed Broadband Deployment Dataset and reflect conditions as of June 2018. Data are reported by census block (centroid).
View in Map RoomThe Digital Divide Index or DDI ranges in value from 0 to 100, where 100 indicates the highest digital divide. It is composed of two scores, also ranging from 0 to 100: the infrastructure/adoption (INFA) score and
the socioeconomic (SE) score.
This layer displays the percentage of population with access to high speed internet as of June 2017. Data are available by County, census tract, and block group. Caculations do not include access based solely on cellular internet providers.
View in Map RoomThis layer displays the average number of high-speed internet providers as of June 2017. Data are available by county, census tract, and census block group. Values are population-weighted; caculations do not include internet access based solely on cellular internet providers.
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