Use of the Internet in higher-income households

Those in higher-income households are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use. Analysis of several recent surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Projects find that there are key differences between those who live in households making $75,000 or more relative to those in lower-income households. Some 95% of Americans who live in households earning $75,000 or more a year use the Internet at least occasionally, compared with 70% of those living in households earning less than $75,000. Even among those who use the Internet, the well off are more likely than those with less income to use technology.

Of those 95% of higher-income Internet users:

• 99% use the Internet at home, compared with 93% of the Internet users in lower brackets.
• 93% of higher-income home Internet users have some type of broadband connection versus 85% of the Internet users who live in households earning less than $75,000 per year. That translates into 87% of all those in live in those better-off households having broadband at home.
• 95% of higher-income households own some type of cell phone compared with 83% in households with less income.