The latest County Broadband Maps are out. I am hoping to start with the annual county profiles soon, where I track where each county is and what’s been happening in terms of broadband expansion, increase use or even just chatter. Today I’m just looking at the county ranking using a table that tracks estimated Availability of Wireline Broadband Service by County in the State of Minnesota – Areas Served by at Least 25 Mbps Download/3 Mbps Upload. So we’re just tracking to the 2022 speed goals, And the data is dated from March, 2018
Highest percentage of population with access to 25/3
- Red Lake – 99.99% ranks 1
- Rock – 99.93% ranks 2
- Ramsey – 99.84% ranks 3
- Swift – 99.64% ranks 4
- Clearwater – 99.58% ranks 5
- Beltrami – 99.40 % ranks 6
- Stevens – 99.22% ranks 7
- Hennepin – 99.18% ranks 8
- Big Stone – 98.91% ranks 9
- Anoka – 98.87% ranks 10
Lac qui Parle, Dodge, Freeborn and Steele fall off the list from 2016. The counties in bold are new to the list.
Lowest percentage of population with access to 25/3
- Martin – 56.38% ranks 78
- Renville – 55.06% ranks 79
- Lincoln – 53.44% ranks 80
- Murray – 51.00% ranks 81
- Marshall- 50.84% ranks 82
- Lake of the Woods- 50.47% ranks 83
- Yellow Medicine- 46.91% ranks 84
- Aitkin – 45.68% rank 85
- Fillmore – 45.02% ranks 86
- Pine- 42.84% ranks 87 *
Mille Lacs, Todd, Traverse, Redwood, Norman fall off the list from 2016. The counties in bold are new to the list.
Or you can download the entire list in Excel.