In preparation for the 2025 County Broadband Profiles, I’m looking at the county ranking for broadband access. I am looking at STATE and NATIONAL data. (Read more about why.)
Below is information from the Minnesota maps. There are three posts looking at:
- Access to 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up
- Access to 100/20
- Access to 1000/100 (see below)
The difference in wireline and fixed wireless will be much less of an issue when looking at speeds of 1000/1000 because even in some of the most generous estimated speeds for fixed wireless are not that high. Also, while there were lots of changes in the ranking in other speeds, there weren’t as many changes at this speed.
(It’s worth noting that the Minnesota map looks at Gig access (1000/1000), while the national map looks at access to 1000/100.
Here’s the ranking:
| county | Gig | gig rank |
| Red Lake | 100 | 1 |
| Lac qui Parle | 99.94 | 2 |
| Stevens | 99.91 | 3 |
| Beltrami | 99.6 | 4 |
| Lincoln | 99.41 | 5 |
| Kittson | 98.82 | 6 |
| Clearwater | 98.21 | 7 |
| Olmsted | 96.11 | 8 |
| Faribault | 95.77 | 9 |
| Grant | 95.54 | 10 |
| Wilkin | 94.96 | 11 |
| Cook | 92.97 | 12 |
| Marshall | 92.25 | 13 |
| Pennington | 89.77 | 14 |
| Freeborn | 88.55 | 15 |
| Dodge | 88.06 | 16 |
| Traverse | 87.4 | 17 |
| Steele | 85.32 | 18 |
| Rice | 83.7 | 19 |
| Mower | 82.23 | 20 |
| Itasca | 80.85 | 21 |
| Pope | 75.7 | 22 |
| Roseau | 75.69 | 23 |
| Lake | 74.71 | 24 |
| Meeker | 73.17 | 25 |
| Jackson | 72.89 | 26 |
| Brown | 72.45 | 27 |
| Crow Wing | 72.21 | 28 |
| Kanabec | 72 | 29 |
| Goodhue | 71.51 | 30 |
| Wabasha | 70.82 | 31 |
| Aitkin | 69.46 | 32 |
| Koochiching | 68.78 | 33 |
| Isanti | 66.71 | 34 |
| Wadena | 65.67 | 35 |
| Houston | 64.96 | 36 |
| Kandiyohi | 64.83 | 37 |
| Swift | 64.53 | 38 |
| Nicollet | 63.23 | 39 |
| Scott | 62.91 | 40 |
| Morrison | 62.6 | 41 |
| Blue Earth | 61.94 | 42 |
| Hennepin | 59.83 | 43 |
| Ramsey | 59.77 | 44 |
| Hubbard | 58.87 | 45 |
| Polk | 58.52 | 46 |
| Le Sueur | 57.98 | 47 |
| Carver | 57.31 | 48 |
| Sibley | 56.55 | 49 |
| Cottonwood | 55.59 | 50 |
| McLeod | 54.25 | 51 |
| Dakota | 53.24 | 52 |
| Fillmore | 53.24 | 53 |
| Pine | 51.75 | 54 |
| Waseca | 47.65 | 55 |
| Lake of the Woods | 47.38 | 56 |
| Renville | 46.24 | 57 |
| Mille Lacs | 45.06 | 58 |
| Cass | 43.51 | 59 |
| Benton | 43.49 | 60 |
| Rock | 43.18 | 61 |
| Chisago | 41.87 | 62 |
| Big Stone | 41.58 | 63 |
| Douglas | 39.98 | 64 |
| Becker | 33.18 | 65 |
| Stearns | 32.74 | 66 |
| Wright | 32.02 | 67 |
| Winona | 30.1 | 68 |
| Todd | 30.01 | 69 |
| Mahnomen | 29.6 | 70 |
| Murray | 28.02 | 71 |
| Pipestone | 28.01 | 72 |
| Carlton | 27.93 | 73 |
| Anoka | 27.76 | 74 |
| Washington | 27.61 | 75 |
| Watonwan | 25.72 | 76 |
| Redwood | 25.4 | 77 |
| St. Louis | 25.29 | 78 |
| Chippewa | 24.48 | 79 |
| Nobles | 24.2 | 80 |
| Martin | 23.81 | 81 |
| Otter Tail | 22.61 | 82 |
| Sherburne | 21.68 | 83 |
| Norman | 20.79 | 84 |
| Clay | 19.91 | 85 |
| Lyon | 12.97 | 86 |
| Yellow Medicine | 12.51 | 87 |