I am working on the final version of the annual Minnesota Broadband County Profiles. I wanted to warn folks who get email updates, that you’ll be getting a lot of emails in the next day or so. I’ll try to queue them for off-hours. Also – wanted to give a sneak preview what I’ve been learning.

First here are some overall observations:

• 24 counties are green code
• 25 counties are red code
• 38 counties are yellow code
• 26 counties have not worked with Blandin
• 6 counties that have not benefitted from border to border grants: Blue Earth, Lake, Norman, Ramsey, Red Lake and Traverse.
• 24 counties have better than 90 percent coverage
• 82 counties have better than 50 percent coverage
• 5 counties have worse than 50 percent coverage

Here are the top ranked counties:

And here are the bottom ranked counties

It’s great to celebrate the top ranked counties but sometimes I think we learn at least as much from the counties that see large swings in their ranking. Interesting to look at what helps move them forward and what holds them back.

Our most improved rank counties include:

Our biggest drop in rank counties include: