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 National/FCC maps. There are three posts looking at:
In preparation for the 2025 County Broadband Profiles, I’m looking at the county ranking for broadband access. I always look at
- Access to 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up (see below)
- Access to 100/20
- Access to a 1000/100 access (see below)
The difference in wireline and fixed wireless will be much less of an issue when looking at speeds of 1000/100 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. Only one change in the top 10 ranking from last year’s gig access. There bottom 10 ranked changed more.
| county | 1000/100 | 1000/100 |
| Red Lake | 100 | 1 |
| Stevens | 99.89 | 2 |
| Lac qui Parle | 99.84 | 3 |
| Beltrami | 99.07 | 4 |
| Clearwater | 98.69 | 5 |
| Pennington | 97.98 | 6 |
| Wadena | 96.63 | 7 |
| Kittson | 94.08 | 8 |
| Olmsted | 93.95 | 9 |
| Cook | 92.67 | 10 |
| Meeker | 91.63 | 11 |
| Clay | 90.66 | 12 |
| Freeborn | 90.21 | 13 |
| Faribault | 89.85 | 14 |
| Itasca | 89.38 | 15 |
| Wilkin | 89.36 | 16 |
| Marshall | 88.66 | 17 |
| Steele | 88.64 | 18 |
| Dodge | 88.29 | 19 |
| Mower | 87.53 | 20 |
| Grant | 82.72 | 21 |
| Polk | 80.41 | 22 |
| Rice | 77.09 | 23 |
| Hennepin | 75.79 | 24 |
| Lake | 75.09 | 25 |
| Pope | 75.01 | 26 |
| Jackson | 74.5 | 27 |
| Goodhue | 72.78 | 28 |
| Brown | 71.02 | 29 |
| Becker | 70.62 | 30 |
| Scott | 68.86 | 31 |
| Ramsey | 68.85 | 32 |
| Crow Wing | 67.74 | 33 |
| Hubbard | 66.41 | 34 |
| Norman | 66.27 | 35 |
| Aitkin | 65.87 | 36 |
| Koochiching | 64.39 | 37 |
| Swift | 63.76 | 38 |
| Houston | 63.24 | 39 |
| Wabasha | 62.57 | 40 |
| Le Sueur | 61.47 | 41 |
| Lincoln | 61.1 | 42 |
| Roseau | 61.06 | 43 |
| Nicollet | 59.78 | 44 |
| Traverse | 59.12 | 45 |
| Redwood | 58.81 | 46 |
| Isanti | 58.49 | 47 |
| Sibley | 57.69 | 48 |
| Mahnomen | 57.2 | 49 |
| Carver | 56.65 | 50 |
| McLeod | 56.55 | 51 |
| Blue Earth | 55.72 | 52 |
| Morrison | 54.24 | 53 |
| Dakota | 54.22 | 54 |
| Todd | 53.53 | 55 |
| Kanabec | 52.79 | 56 |
| Yellow Medicine | 52.16 | 57 |
| Renville | 48.43 | 58 |
| Cass | 48.2 | 59 |
| Pine | 47.06 | 60 |
| Douglas | 47.05 | 61 |
| Cottonwood | 46.79 | 62 |
| Fillmore | 45.85 | 63 |
| Rock | 45.41 | 64 |
| Big Stone | 43.01 | 65 |
| Lake of the Woods | 42.63 | 66 |
| Stearns | 41.31 | 67 |
| Waseca | 38.71 | 68 |
| Otter Tail | 38.36 | 69 |
| Anoka | 36.37 | 70 |
| Sherburne | 35.03 | 71 |
| Wright | 32.9 | 72 |
| Murray | 32.56 | 73 |
| Washington | 29.61 | 74 |
| Kandiyohi | 29.14 | 75 |
| Chippewa | 28.66 | 76 |
| Chisago | 28.52 | 77 |
| Watonwan | 27.82 | 78 |
| Winona | 27.6 | 79 |
| Pipestone | 25.27 | 80 |
| Carlton | 25.14 | 81 |
| Nobles | 23.1 | 82 |
| Martin | 22.45 | 83 |
| St. Louis | 19.78 | 84 |
| Mille Lacs | 19.42 | 85 |
| Lyon | 18.8 | 86 |
| Benton | 1.96 | 87 |