Household broadband adoption

Places ranked by broadband subscription.

The American Community Survey asks households whether they have an internet subscription. This page ranks US Census places by the share that say yes. It measures what households subscribe to, never which providers offer service at an address, and the two can differ for reasons the survey does not record.

Places ranked

14,067

of 32,330 with a page

Subscription rate across these places

91.2%

households in Census places, not a national rate

Left out of the ranking

18,263

thin estimates, and places where the sample found no non-subscriber

What is being compared, and what is not

This is subscription, not availability. A low rate can mean service is unavailable, unaffordable, or simply not wanted. The survey does not ask which, so this page does not say.
18,040 places are excluded because they hold fewer than 500 households, or because the margin of error is larger than half the estimate. That rule is the Census Bureau's own reliability convention, and it is the same rule that decides which place pages are published as pages of record.
223 places are excluded although they qualify, because the survey found no household without a subscription. Ranked by rate they would fill every top position and read as "100% of households have broadband", which is a statement about the sample and not about the place.
Every figure carries a margin of error at the 90% confidence level. Neighbouring positions in these lists are not meaningfully different from each other. A rank is a position in a list, not a verdict.
Places are not states. Census places do not cover a whole state — unincorporated territory belongs to none — so these figures are never added up into a state or national rate here.

Highest subscription rates

The top of this list is dominated by small, affluent places. At a few thousand households the margin of error is still material, and the places below are close enough together that their order should not be read as a difference.

Highest subscription rates
Rank	Place	State	Households	With a subscription
1	Woodmoor CDP	Colorado	3,412	99.9%
2	Bayou Gauche CDP	Louisiana	622	99.8%
3	Blackwells Mills CDP	New Jersey	3,078	99.8%
4	Snoqualmie city	Washington	4,582	99.8%
5	Hickam Housing CDP	Hawaii	2,618	99.8%
6	George Mason CDP	Virginia	1,689	99.8%
7	Edgewood city	Florida	1,160	99.7%
8	Volo village	Illinois	2,263	99.7%
9	Terrace Park village	Ohio	738	99.7%
10	McGuire AFB CDP	New Jersey	1,322	99.7%
11	Newberry city	Florida	2,867	99.7%
12	Scarsdale village	New York	5,576	99.7%
13	Tehaleh CDP	Washington	3,221	99.7%
14	Fort Polk North CDP	Louisiana	1,156	99.7%
15	Floris CDP	Virginia	2,576	99.7%
16	Lake Butler CDP	Florida	5,998	99.6%
17	East Shoreham CDP	New York	2,150	99.6%
18	Kure Beach town	North Carolina	1,073	99.6%
19	Three Lakes CDP	Florida	5,348	99.6%
20	Haymarket town	Virginia	511	99.6%
21	University Park town	Maryland	1,002	99.6%
22	Foxfire village	North Carolina	715	99.6%
23	Gluckstadt city	Mississippi	1,170	99.6%
24	Ruhenstroth CDP	Nevada	701	99.6%
25	Southside Place city	Texas	690	99.6%

Lowest subscription rates

A place appears here because few of its households reported a subscription. That is not evidence that service is unavailable: some communities subscribe at low rates by choice, and the survey records the outcome rather than the reason.

Lowest subscription rates
Rank	Place	State	Households	With a subscription
14067	New Square village	New York	1,841	13.7%
14066	Kiryas Joel village	New York	7,505	22.6%
14065	Kaser village	New York	1,235	24.7%
14064	Hollandale city	Mississippi	879	42.2%
14063	Grambling city	Louisiana	1,633	42.4%
14062	Queen Valley CDP	Arizona	547	42.6%
14061	Itta Bena city	Mississippi	780	43.1%
14060	University of California-Santa Barbara CDP	California	708	44.9%
14059	Lukachukai CDP	Arizona	520	45.0%
14058	Cibecue CDP	Arizona	535	46.2%
14057	Whiteriver CDP	Arizona	1,443	46.9%
14056	Monsey CDP	New York	5,517	47.1%
14055	Algodones CDP	New Mexico	632	49.2%
14054	Río Lajas comunidad	Puerto Rico	675	49.3%
14053	Greenville city	Mississippi	11,249	49.6%
14052	Homer town	Louisiana	1,062	49.6%
14051	Erwinville CDP	Louisiana	717	50.3%
14050	Isabela zona urbana	Puerto Rico	3,969	50.7%
14049	Scotland Neck town	North Carolina	1,091	51.1%
14048	Leland city	Mississippi	1,697	51.9%
14047	Haynesville town	Louisiana	970	52.2%
14046	Heidelberg CDP	Texas	572	52.4%
14045	Lincolnton city	Georgia	711	52.5%
14044	Taylorsville town	Mississippi	650	52.8%
14043	Angustura CDP	New Mexico	505	52.9%

The largest places, and where they rank

Ordered by households rather than by rate, with the position each one holds in the full ranking above.

The largest places, and where they rank
Rank	Place	State	Households	With a subscription
7430	New York city	New York	3,334,088	90.5%
5508	Los Angeles city	California	1,439,097	92.6%
8580	Chicago city	Illinois	1,160,205	89.1%
7802	Houston city	Texas	930,404	90.1%
8586	Philadelphia city	Pennsylvania	679,428	89.1%
6671	Phoenix city	Arizona	610,442	91.4%
7062	San Antonio city	Texas	554,581	91.0%
7126	Dallas city	Texas	533,915	90.9%
2961	San Diego city	California	530,412	95.2%
4416	Austin city	Texas	456,113	93.8%
7129	Jacksonville city	Florida	394,370	90.9%
4598	Columbus city	Ohio	390,528	93.6%
4537	Charlotte city	North Carolina	368,788	93.6%
5150	San Francisco city	California	363,970	93.0%
3702	Seattle city	Washington	363,466	94.5%
6269	Indianapolis city (balance)	Indiana	362,961	91.8%
5961	Fort Worth city	Texas	342,126	92.1%
5253	Denver city	Colorado	335,428	92.9%
2810	San Jose city	California	328,550	95.4%
6842	Washington city	District of Columbia	324,491	91.2%
5555	Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance)	Tennessee	313,513	92.6%
4287	Portland city	Oregon	289,705	93.9%
6070	Boston city	Massachusetts	283,374	92.0%
6076	Oklahoma City city	Oklahoma	280,065	92.0%
7463	Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance)	Kentucky	264,505	90.5%