Internet providers in Jefferson County, Kansas
As of June 2026, providers reported wired internet of 100/20 Mbps or faster to 44.2% of the 9,241 units in Jefferson County, Kansas, which includes Oskaloosa, Valley Falls and Perry: fewer than half of the county's units, against 90.5% across Kansas. Counting fixed wireless, 81.9% of units had a non-satellite option of 100/20 Mbps or more. Starlink reported service to 99.9% of units, and 12 other providers, not counting the three large satellite providers, reported residential service at some speed.
FCC data as of June 2026, files of October 2026.
At a glance
| As reported to the FCC | Jefferson County | Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Units, as the FCC counts them | 9,241 | 1,488,117 |
| Units the FCC classes as rural | 99.4% | 31.1% |
| Wired service at any speed | 86.0% | 94.2% |
| Wired service of 25/3 Mbps or more | 52.7% | 91.4% |
| Wired service of 100/20 Mbps or more | 44.2% | 90.5% |
| Wired gigabit (1000/100 Mbps or more) | 39.3% | 85.0% |
| Fiber, 100/20 or more | 6.4% | 78.8% |
| Cable, 100/20 or more | 39.4% | 71.9% |
| Copper (DSL and similar), 25/3 or more | 24.5% | 21.3% |
| Licensed fixed wireless, 100/20 or more | 71.3% | 65.4% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless, 100/20 or more | 9.2% | 12.6% |
| Any non-satellite service, 100/20 or more | 81.9% | 96.6% |
| Starlink (low-orbit satellite) | 99.9% | more than 99.9% |
| Geostationary satellite, 25/3 or more | 100.0% | more than 99.9% |
| Other providers | 12 | 78 |
Other providers: providers that report residential fixed service in the county at any speed, apart from the three large satellite providers, which report service in nearly every county. Fixed wireless providers count too, so this is not a count of wired providers.
Wired service
Cable reached 39.4% of units at 100/20 or more, and fiber 6.4%. Wired gigabit service (1000/100 Mbps or more) reached 39.3% of units. Wired service of any speed reached 86.0% of units, against 44.2% at 100/20. If you have a wired connection now and are thinking about satellite, see Leaving a wired ISP.
Fixed wireless
Fixed wireless, from antennas on towers, reached 71.3% of units at 100/20 with licensed spectrum and 9.2% with unlicensed spectrum; with wired service, 81.9% had a non-satellite option at that speed.
Satellite
Starlink, a low-orbit satellite service, reported service to 99.9% of the county's units, which leaves 0.1% where it reported none. Geostationary satellite service of 25/3 Mbps or more was reported for 100.0% of units.
Other providers
Other providers: providers that report residential fixed service in the county at any speed, apart from the three large satellite providers, which report service in nearly every county. Fixed wireless providers count too, so this is not a count of wired providers. In Jefferson County there were 12; the count says how many reported service, not how many units each one reaches.
Places in Jefferson County
The Census Bureau lists these places in Jefferson County: incorporated places (cities, towns, villages and boroughs) and census-designated places, unincorporated communities whose boundaries it draws for statistics. Beside each is its count of other providers, as defined above, for the whole place.
Incorporated places:
- McLouth: 5 other providers
- Meriden: 7 other providers
- Nortonville: 7 other providers
- Oskaloosa: 6 other providers
- Ozawkie: 6 other providers
- Perry: 6 other providers
- Valley Falls: 7 other providers
- Winchester: 6 other providers
Census-designated places:
- Grantville: 5 other providers
- Williamstown: 6 other providers
How Jefferson County compares
Across Kansas, 91.4% of units had wired service of 25/3 Mbps or more and 90.5% had 100/20 or more; across the US, 93.8% and 93.1%. Jefferson County's figures are lower than both at each speed. With fixed wireless included, the share of units with a non-satellite option of 100/20 Mbps or more was 81.9% here, 96.6% across Kansas and 96.4% across the US. Among the 2,858 counties of 3,000 units or more in the 50 states and DC, Jefferson County is tied for the 118th- to 119th-lowest share of units with wired 100/20 service, as the figures show to one decimal. The FCC classes 99.4% of units in Jefferson County as rural.
Every county on this site is in the county list, by state, with its own figures.
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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.
Places: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 FIPS codes for places (file of February 2023); towns named in the page's first sentence are ordered by its Vintage 2025 population estimates for cities and towns (file of May 2026).