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Quarter of Americans Have No Internet
Source: Statista
Having a reliable internet connection has become even more important for people around the country trying to work from home and stay connected. However, over a quarter of Americans still don’t have access to a consistent broadband internet connection.
In a survey from the Pew Research Center, only 73 percent of Americans have a broadband connection in their home. Those numbers go down drastically in rural, uneducated households, where only 63 percent of rural households and 56 percent of households with a high school degree or less have access to internet.
Unsurprisingly, 92 percent of households making more than $75,000 a year have a reliable broadband connection, while only 56 percent of those making less than $30,000 have the same.
Broadband support in rural and poorer regions of the country has long lagged behind urban areas. Treatment of internet as a private service has come under scrutiny in the last decade as more and more livelihoods depend upon a solid internet connection. With COVID-19 forcing people to rely even more on the internet, the conversation of treating internet services as a public utility may rise to prominence.
Where Americans Lack High-Speed Internet Access
Source: Statista
Last year a report from the Federal Communications Commission found that 21.3 million Americans did not have broadband access in 2019. A new report by BroadbandNow, a company that helps consumers find out if high-speed internet is available where they live, estimates that the true number is actually twice that. The research cited a flaw in the FCC’s data-gathering, specifically that if an ISP offers a service to at least one household in a census block, then that entire block would be counted as being connected.
BroadbandNow subsequently checked the availability of high-speed internet at 11,000 address manually in order to gain a more accurate picture of the number of people disconnected. It estimates that 42.8 million people are not connected to fixed high-speed internet across the U.S. and at state level, Texas has the highest number at 4.17 million. California and Arizona have the second and third highest estimated number at 2.35 million and 1.84 million respectively.
