Worst Connected Cities 2018

In 221 large and medium-size US cities, according to the latest data from the US Census, at least 30% of all households still lacked a wireline broadband connection in 2018. They are NDIA’s Worst Connected Cities of 2018. The 2018 American Community Survey One Year Estimates (ACS), released by the US Census in September 2019, include 2018 household Internet access data for 623 US cities and “Census designated places” with populations of 65,000 or more. NDIA has ranked all 623 of these communities by:

• the percentage of households without “wireline” broadband subscriptions (“Broadband such as cable, fiber optic or DSL”), as well as
• the percentage of each community’s households that lacked broadband Internet subscriptions of any type, including mobile data plans.