2024 Minnesota Broadband County Profiles – from Aitkin to Yellow Medicine

The 2024 County Broadband Profiles are done! I wanted to give folks who get an email alert each time something is posted on the blog that today is the day you’re going to get a lot. Also, I wanted to share some notes.

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

Using data from the Office of Broadband Development and stories collected on the Blandin on Broadband blog, I have created a broadband snapshot of each county and their progress, especially on meeting the 2026 goal and ranked each green (good shape), yellow (warning) and red (yikes). There’s no formula involved in the ranking, but factors include percentage covered, progress toward the goal over the last few years, upcoming investments (awarded grants and other funding) and community engagement. And the goal posts move as opportunities arise and disappear.

Last year, Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program (BEAD) funding was the hot topic. While BEAD is still a major factor, there are so many unknowns that BEAD isn’t as important as how ready a county is to take advantage of it, or any other opportunity.  It is worth nothing that Minnesota has been allocated $652 million; and the Office of Broadband Development (OBD) has noted that $652 million will not be enough to reach everyone.

Also you can check out:

I plan to do more analysis of the reports in the New Year.

  1. Aitkin – https://wp.me/p3if7-aw4
  2. Anoka – https://wp.me/p3if7-ayW
  3. Becker – https://wp.me/p3if7-az1
  4. Beltrami – https://wp.me/p3if7-az6
  5. Benton – https://wp.me/p3if7-azb
  6. Big Stone – https://wp.me/p3if7-azi
  7. Blue Earth – https://wp.me/p3if7-azn
  8. Brown – https://wp.me/p3if7-azs
  9. Carlton – https://wp.me/p3if7-azx
  10. Carver – https://wp.me/p3if7-azC
  11. Cass – https://wp.me/p3if7-azH
  12. Chippewa – https://wp.me/p3if7-azM
  13. Chisago – https://wp.me/p3if7-azR
  14. Clay – https://wp.me/p3if7-azW
  15. Clearwater – https://wp.me/p3if7-aA1
  16. Cook – https://wp.me/p3if7-aA6
  17. Cottonwood – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAc
  18. Crow Wing – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAh
  19. Dakota – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAn
  20. Dodge – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAs
  21. Douglas – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAx
  22. Faribault – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAC
  23. Fillmore – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAP
  24. Freeborn – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAU
  25. Goodhue – https://wp.me/p3if7-aAZ
  26. Grant – https://wp.me/p3if7-aB4
  27. Hennepin – https://wp.me/p3if7-aB9
  28. Houston – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBe
  29. Hubbard – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBj
  30. Isanti – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBp
  31. Itasca – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBu
  32. Jackson – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBA
  33. Kanabec – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBF
  34. Kandiyohi – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBK
  35. Kittson – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBP
  36. Koochiching – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBU
  37. Lac qui Parle – https://wp.me/p3if7-aBZ
  38. Lake – https://wp.me/p3if7-aC6
  39. Lake of the Woods – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCb
  40. Le Sueur – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCg
  41. Lincoln – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCl
  42. Lyon – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCq
  43. Mahnomen – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCw
  44. Marshall – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCB
  45. Martin – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCG
  46. McLeod – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCL
  47. Meeker – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCP
  48. Mille Lacs – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCU
  49. Morrison – https://wp.me/p3if7-aCZ
  50. Mower – https://wp.me/p3if7-aD4
  51. Murray – https://wp.me/p3if7-aD9
  52. Nicollet – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDe
  53. Nobles – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDj
  54. Norman – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDo
  55. Olmsted – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDt
  56. Otter Tail – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDy
  57. Pennington – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDD
  58. Pine – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDI
  59. Pipestone – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDN
  60. Polk – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDS
  61. Pope – https://wp.me/p3if7-aDX
  62. Ramsey – https://wp.me/p3if7-aE2
  63. Red Lake – https://wp.me/p3if7-aE7
  64. Redwood – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEd
  65. Renville – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEi
  66. Rice – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEn
  67. Rock – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEs
  68. Roseau – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEx
  69. Scott – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEH
  70. Sherburne – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEM
  71. Sibley – https://wp.me/p3if7-aER
  72. St. Louis – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEC
  73. Stearns – https://wp.me/p3if7-aEW
  74. Steele – https://wp.me/p3if7-aF1
  75. Stevens – https://wp.me/p3if7-aF6
  76. Swift – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFb
  77. Todd – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFg
  78. Traverse – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFl
  79. Wabasha – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFq
  80. Wadena – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFv
  81. Waseca – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFA
  82. Washington – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFF
  83. Watonwan – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFK
  84. Wilkin – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFP
  85. Winona – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFT
  86. Wright – https://wp.me/p3if7-aFX
  87. Yellow Medicine – https://wp.me/p3if7-aG2