Internet by county: where wired service is thinnest, from FCC data
These pages give the FCC's figures for 47 US counties where under half of units had wired internet of 100/20 Mbps or faster. The figures come from the FCC's Broadband Data Collection: the service internet providers reported as of June 2026, at the most they advertise. The FCC counts units, not buildings: an apartment or condo building is one location in its data, and each of its units is counted.
FCC data as of June 2026, files of October 2026.
How the counties were chosen
Every county of 3,000 units or more in the 50 states and DC was ranked by the share of its units with wired service of 100/20 Mbps or more, lowest first, with at most 2 counties from each state. The first 50 make the set. Of those, 3 are left out until their figures are checked on the FCC's own map. The floor is 3,000 units because at 5,000 units only 139 counties had wired 100/20 service for under half their units; at 3,000, 178 did, among 2,858 counties of that size.
The national picture
Across the US, 93.8% of units had wired service of 25/3 Mbps or more and 93.1% had 100/20 or more, and 96.4% had a non-satellite option of 100/20 or more. Starlink reported service to 99.7% of units.
The counties, by state
Each county links to its own page. The share is of units with wired service of 100/20 Mbps or more.
What these pages don't cover
Addresses: the FCC's National Broadband Map shows what providers report at one address. Prices: the FCC's data has none, so no county here has a price of its own; Starlink plans and prices covers what Starlink's own pages show. Measured speeds: the speeds on these pages are what providers advertise, not test results.
About these numbers
The FCC counts units, not buildings: an apartment or condo building is one location in its data, and each of its units is counted. Each share is of the units where providers reported residential service at that speed or faster, by the most they advertise; none of it is a measured speed. Wired means copper (DSL and similar), cable and fiber, and any non-satellite service is the FCC's Any Terrestrial group, wired and fixed wireless together. The FCC's files don't define some of their own terms: how the FCC draws rural, what its lowest speed tier (this page's "any speed") covers beyond its name, how a provider's share of a county's units is counted, and whether licensed-by-rule fixed wireless sits with the licensed or the unlicensed group. The rule that chose the counties is under How the counties were chosen, and the FCC's map is the place to check one address.
Source data: FCC Broadband Data Collection, National Broadband Map, availability as of June 2026 as reported by internet providers (FCC files of October 2026). This product uses FCC APIs and/or Data but is not endorsed or certified by the FCC.