Household broadband adoption

Broadband subscription, state by state.

Each state is shaded by the share of its households that told the American Community Survey they have a broadband internet subscription. Every figure is the estimate the Census Bureau published for that state, not one assembled here. It measures what households subscribe to, never which providers offer service at an address.

Across 52 states, the highest and lowest state estimates are 93.6% and 80.6%: 13.0 points separates Washington from Puerto Rico. The map shades that whole range, so a dark state and a light one are closer than the colours suggest.

State outlines are the Census Bureau's 2023 cartographic boundaries, generalised for display and projected equal-area. Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are drawn in their own frames at the lower left, as the Bureau's reference maps do; at true position and scale Alaska takes half the canvas. Area is faithful within each frame, not between them.

How to read this map

This is subscription, not availability. A lower share can mean service is unavailable, unaffordable, or not wanted. The survey does not ask which, so this map does not say.
The states are closer together than the shading suggests. Here 4 of the 52 published estimates are not measurably different from Washington, the highest, so those states are not ranked against each other by this map. A choropleth gives every state a definite colour, but these are survey estimates, and two estimates differ only when the gap exceeds their combined margin of error.
The projection is equal area. A shade covers the same amount of map in Rhode Island as in Montana. Under the web's usual projection the northern states are inflated against the southern ones, so the same colour would cover visibly different areas and the eye would read a quantity the data never gave it.
The scale is fixed, not fitted. The bands are round numbers chosen once, so two vintages of this map can be compared and a state does not change colour because its neighbours did.
No state figure is built from the places inside it. Census places do not cover a whole state — unincorporated territory belongs to none of them — so adding places up would give a number the Bureau never published and a margin of error that cannot be derived.

Every state, with its margin of error

The same figures the map shades, in full. The margin is at the 90% confidence level and applies to the rate, derived from both counts it came from.

Broadband subscription rate by state, with margins of error
State	Households	With a subscription	Margin of error
Alabama	1,997,247	87.5%	± 0.3 points
Alaska	270,533	91.9%	± 0.4 points
Arizona	2,856,081	91.5%	± 0.2 points
Arkansas	1,205,987	86.7%	± 0.4 points
California	13,548,091	93.5%	± 0.1 points
Colorado	2,374,218	93.5%	± 0.2 points
Connecticut	1,434,007	92.2%	± 0.2 points
Delaware	402,038	92.4%	± 0.5 points
District of Columbia	324,491	91.2%	± 0.5 points
Florida	8,752,810	91.6%	± 0.2 points
Georgia	4,074,366	91.0%	± 0.2 points
Hawaii	492,453	92.0%	± 0.3 points
Idaho	713,005	91.9%	± 0.3 points
Illinois	5,036,449	90.8%	± 0.1 points
Indiana	2,716,009	89.9%	± 0.2 points
Iowa	1,315,707	88.9%	± 0.3 points
Kansas	1,174,060	90.7%	± 0.3 points
Kentucky	1,814,469	88.6%	± 0.2 points
Louisiana	1,804,780	86.6%	± 0.3 points
Maine	597,159	90.3%	± 0.4 points
Maryland	2,362,928	92.4%	± 0.2 points
Massachusetts	2,785,042	92.8%	± 0.1 points
Michigan	4,076,369	90.5%	± 0.1 points
Minnesota	2,307,955	91.6%	± 0.2 points
Mississippi	1,145,431	84.1%	± 0.4 points
Missouri	2,508,227	89.3%	± 0.2 points
Montana	458,859	89.4%	± 0.2 points
Nebraska	797,847	90.6%	± 0.2 points
Nevada	1,202,593	92.0%	± 0.3 points
New Hampshire	555,822	92.9%	± 0.4 points
New Jersey	3,507,701	92.8%	± 0.2 points
New Mexico	837,414	86.5%	± 0.4 points
New York	7,722,646	90.8%	± 0.2 points
North Carolina	4,282,345	90.1%	± 0.2 points
North Dakota	331,063	88.7%	± 0.4 points
Ohio	4,863,191	90.1%	± 0.2 points
Oklahoma	1,562,389	88.9%	± 0.2 points
Oregon	1,718,422	92.4%	± 0.2 points
Pennsylvania	5,274,853	89.7%	± 0.1 points
Rhode Island	441,570	91.7%	± 0.3 points
South Carolina	2,117,989	88.8%	± 0.3 points
South Dakota	365,544	89.6%	± 0.4 points
Tennessee	2,824,277	89.2%	± 0.2 points
Texas	10,992,816	91.4%	± 0.1 points
Utah	1,124,822	93.4%	± 0.3 points
Vermont	273,416	89.7%	± 0.5 points
Virginia	3,365,732	91.0%	± 0.2 points
Washington	3,064,820	93.6%	± 0.1 points
West Virginia	728,655	86.1%	± 0.3 points
Wisconsin	2,479,480	90.3%	± 0.2 points
Wyoming	243,318	89.4%	± 0.5 points
Puerto Rico	1,290,866	80.6%	± 0.3 points

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B28002 (acs/acs5), retrieved 2026-10-07T01:46:45Z. Published state estimates, never an aggregate of the places inside a state.