Earlier today I wrote about BroadbandClusters.org, it tracks broadband adoption by state, zip and county. Actually, it tracks a number of socioeconomic factors as well, which is helpful but looking at their drivers for broadband adoption, I found that there were two factors that were more technology based:
- No access to a device
- Percentage of large screen device
So, I have tracked three things from the research – to make for easy ranking and to help counties figure out what they might be able to change:
- Weighted broadband Adoption
- Weighted Large Screen Availability
- Weighted without Computer/Device
Below the ranking is based on broadband adoption, but I’ve kept the other factors as well. (You can access the spreadsheet.) It’s worth nothing that this is different than broadband access, which I track at the end of the year. These numbers look at how many subscribe to the service.
| county | rank of broadband adoption | Weighted BB Adoption | weighted Large Screen Availability | Weighted without compute Device |
| Dakota | 1 | 83.6 | 92.8 | 2.6 |
| Washington | 2 | 83.2 | 93.3 | 2.3 |
| Anoka | 3 | 83.1 | 90.8 | 3.03 |
| Cook | 4 | 83.1 | 91 | 1.8 |
| Hennepin | 5 | 82.1 | 91.4 | 3.1 |
| Scott | 6 | 81.3 | 93.2 | 2.5 |
| Carver | 7 | 81 | 93.9 | 2.2 |
| Sherburne | 8 | 79.9 | 92.4 | 2.4 |
| Olmsted | 9 | 79.6 | 91.6 | 3.4 |
| Winona | 10 | 79 | 87.6 | 4.5 |
| Ramsey | 11 | 78.5 | 88.5 | 3.7 |
| Big Stone | 12 | 78.3 | 85.3 | 6.5 |
| Rock | 13 | 78.1 | 87.4 | 4 |
| Beltrami | 14 | 78 | 85 | 5.7 |
| Grant | 15 | 77.3 | 83.9 | 6.5 |
| Benton | 16 | 77 | 88.5 | 4.1 |
| Itasca | 17 | 77 | 83.5 | 5.7 |
| Jackson | 18 | 77 | 81.7 | 7.4 |
| McLeod | 19 | 77 | 84.8 | 6.8 |
| Murray | 20 | 77 | 88.5 | 4.1 |
| Nobles | 21 | 77 | 81.1 | 6.4 |
| Pennington | 22 | 77 | 81.8 | 6 |
| Renville | 23 | 77 | 80.4 | 8.7 |
| Stevens | 24 | 75.6 | 87.5 | 3 |
| Houston | 25 | 74.5 | 83.3 | 6.8 |
| Clay | 26 | 74.2 | 86.4 | 4.3 |
| Kittson | 27 | 74.2 | 82.4 | 7.9 |
| Crow Wing | 28 | 74.1 | 87.1 | 3.6 |
| Norman | 29 | 73.7 | 81.1 | 7.5 |
| Lyon | 30 | 73.6 | 86.5 | 5.2 |
| Chisago | 31 | 73.5 | 87.3 | 4.5 |
| Rice | 32 | 73.5 | 86.6 | 4.8 |
| Blue Earth | 33 | 73.4 | 89.9 | 3.3 |
| Polk | 34 | 73.4 | 82.8 | 5.6 |
| Isanti | 35 | 73.2 | 85.8 | 4.5 |
| Lincoln | 36 | 73.2 | 84 | 6.3 |
| Red Lake | 37 | 73.2 | 81.4 | 9.1 |
| Wright | 38 | 72.9 | 89.4 | 3.7 |
| Clearwater | 39 | 72.6 | 79.4 | 11.1 |
| Faribault | 40 | 72.5 | 81.8 | 7.4 |
| Hubbard | 41 | 72.4 | 84.3 | 6.1 |
| Nicollet | 42 | 72.2 | 86.7 | 7.1 |
| Stearns | 43 | 72.1 | 84.7 | 4.8 |
| Brown | 44 | 71.6 | 83.6 | 7.9 |
| Dodge | 45 | 71.5 | 87.2 | 5.1 |
| Koochiching | 46 | 71.5 | 80.8 | 6.6 |
| Douglas | 47 | 71.4 | 84.7 | 4.9 |
| Roseau | 48 | 71.2 | 79.3 | 5.8 |
| Pope | 49 | 70.6 | 85.9 | 5.7 |
| Steele | 50 | 70.4 | 84.6 | 6.7 |
| Goodhue | 51 | 69.6 | 86.2 | 5.6 |
| Lac qui Parle | 52 | 69.6 | 81.3 | 10 |
| Otter Tail | 53 | 69.5 | 83.8 | 6.5 |
| Marshall | 54 | 69.3 | 79.9 | 7.8 |
| Cottonwood | 55 | 69.2 | 81.1 | 7.2 |
| Fillmore | 56 | 69.2 | 82.9 | 9.4 |
| St. Louis | 57 | 69.1 | 83.7 | 5.8 |
| Chippewa | 58 | 68.9 | 79.6 | 6.6 |
| Lake | 59 | 68.7 | 84 | 8.6 |
| Swift | 60 | 68.7 | 82.2 | 8.2 |
| Cass | 61 | 68.1 | 83.4 | 5.8 |
| Lake of the Woods | 62 | 68 | 80.1 | 9.7 |
| Waseca | 63 | 67.3 | 86.1 | 6.9 |
| Wilkin | 64 | 67.3 | 81.5 | 8.9 |
| Mower | 65 | 67.1 | 82.6 | 5.5 |
| Pipestone | 66 | 67.1 | 83.1 | 5.8 |
| Yellow Medicine | 67 | 66.9 | 82.8 | 7.1 |
| Becker | 68 | 66.8 | 82 | 5.3 |
| Wadena | 69 | 66.6 | 75.7 | 7.4 |
| Freeborn | 70 | 66.5 | 81.4 | 8.1 |
| Mille Lacs | 71 | 66.4 | 81.8 | 5.8 |
| Wabasha | 72 | 66.2 | 82.7 | 7.4 |
| Kandiyohi | 73 | 65.9 | 83.7 | 4.5 |
| Le Sueur | 74 | 65.6 | 84 | 5.5 |
| Meeker | 75 | 65.6 | 82.7 | 6.7 |
| Morrison | 76 | 64.7 | 80.9 | 8.6 |
| Redwood | 77 | 64 | 82.8 | 6.8 |
| Traverse | 78 | 63.6 | 74.3 | 12.2 |
| Martin | 79 | 62.9 | 81.3 | 7.1 |
| Sibley | 80 | 61.4 | 80.3 | 6.6 |
| Mahnomen | 81 | 61.1 | 75.9 | 8.7 |
| Watonwan | 82 | 60.7 | 76.2 | 8.6 |
| Aitkin | 83 | 59.9 | 80.5 | 6.4 |
| Carlton | 84 | 58.6 | 80.9 | 5.4 |
| Todd | 85 | 53.6 | 73.7 | 10.1 |
| Pine | 86 | 52.8 | 78.8 | 8.1 |
| Kanabec | 87 | 52.3 | 78 | 9.3 |