2019 Digital Divide Index

This 2019 Digital Divide Index (DDI) is an updated version that scores: the overall digital divide index, infrastructure/adoption, and socioeconomic. For purposes of this post, we divided all census tracts in the country, whose DDI could be calculated, into three equal groups (roughly same number of tracts per group) based on their DDI score: low, medium, and high. Of the roughly 324 million residents in the U.S. according to the 2015-2019 American Community Survey, 123 million or 38% lived in tracts with a low digital divide versus 108 million or 33% in tract with a medium digital divide and 92 million or 28% in tracts with a high digital divide. In terms of age, roughly 21 million or 29% of children and 16 million or 32% of those ages 65 or older lived in tracts with a high digital divide.