Minnesota has two broadband speed goals:

• Ubiquitous access to speeds of 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up (25/3) by 2022
• Ubiquitous access to 100/20 by 2026

These are more aggressive than federal standards; the Minnesota Broadband Task Force suggested them and the Minnesota Legislature put them into statute because it puts Minnesota on track to be competitive globally and it levels the playing field for rural, urban and suburban counties.

Using maps and data from the Office of Broadband Development and stories collected on the Blandin on Broadband blog, I have compiled a broadband snapshot of each county and their progress, especially to meeting the 2026 goal. (Progress toward the 2022 goal does not necessarily bring a county closer to the 2026 goal because there some broadband options will get to speeds of 25/3 but not 100/20.)

I have also coded each county with Red, Yellow or Green. These are meant be indicators of the level urgency a county might consider for their broadband planning moving forward. I factored in current percentage of access covered but also recent activity in the county and provider options available to them.

I will post the profiles over the next 2 days (so the links below may not work until Sep 28) because it’s a lot of data to include at once. On Monday (Sep 30) I will post an analysis of themes and lessons I learned looking at each county. I will be eager to talk to anyone about the profiles at the 15^th annual broadband conference (Innovation: Putting Broadband to Work) Oct 8-10 at Grand View Lodge.

Here are other links that might be of interest:

• MN County Ranking for 100/20 speeds
• MN County Ranking for 25/3 speeds
• 2019 MN Tribal Nation Broadband Profiles

Counties:

1. Aitkin County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5iU
2. Anoka County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5iY
3. Becker County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5j3
4. Beltrami County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5j7
5. Benton County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5je
6. Big Stone County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5ji
7. Blue Earth County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5jn
8. Brown County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5jr
9. Carlton County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5jR
10. Carver County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5jW
11. Cass County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5k0
12. Chippewa County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5k5
13. Chisago County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5k9
14. Clay County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kd
15. Clearwater County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5ki
16. Cook County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5km
17. Cottonwood County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kq
18. Crow Wing County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5ku
19. Dakota County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5ky
20. Dodge County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kB
21. Douglas County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kG
22. Faribault County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kK
23. Fillmore County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kP
24. Freeborn County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kS
25. Goodhue County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kW
26. Grant County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5kZ
27. Hennepin County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5l3
28. Houston County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5l7
29. Hubbard County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lc
30. Isanti County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5li
31. Itasca County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5ll
32. Jackson County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lv
33. Kanabec County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lA
34. Kandiyohi County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lE
35. Kittson County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lK
36. Koochiching County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lO
37. Lac qui Parle County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lR
38. Lake County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lV
39. Lake of the Woods County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5lZ
40. Le Sueur County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5m3
41. Lincoln County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5m7
42. Lyon County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5ma
43. Mahnomen County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mf
44. Marshall County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mj
45. Martin County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mm
46. McLeod County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mr
47. Meeker County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mu
48. Mille Lacs County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mC
49. Morrison County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mG
50. Mower County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mO
51. Murray County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mT
52. Nicollet County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5mY
53. Nobles County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5n3
54. Norman County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5n8
55. Olmsted County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5ng
56. Otter Tail County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nk
57. Pennington County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5no
58. Pine County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nt
59. Pipestone County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nw
60. Polk County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nB
61. Pope County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nF
62. Ramsey County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nJ
63. Red Lake County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nN
64. Redwood County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nR
65. Renville County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5nW
66. Rice County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5o2
67. Rock County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5o6
68. Roseau County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oa
69. Saint Louis County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oB
70. Scott County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5of
71. Sherburne County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oj
72. Sibley County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5on
73. Stearns County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oE
74. Steele County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oH
75. Stevens County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oL
76. Swift County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oO
77. Todd County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oR
78. Traverse County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oU
79. Wabasha County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5oX
80. Wadena County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5p1
81. Waseca County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5p4
82. Washington County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5p7
83. Watonwan County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5pa
84. Wilkin County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5pe
85. Winona County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5pj
86. Wright County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5pn
87. Yellow Medicine County – https://wp.me/p3if7-5pr