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Connected: Rural, poor areas lag in broadband

Data: Broadband files

By Jacob Fenton

Friday, March 23rd, 2012 

Download the source data aggregated from the FCC, U.S. Census Bureau, and USDA used in this project, in tabular (csv) or geographic (.shp) format. For more information, see the readme and data dictionary files contained within each distribution.

Tract data
irw.s3.amazonaws.com/broadband/files/broadband_tracts_gis.zip ~ 49MB
irw.s3.amazonaws.com/broadband/files/broadband_tracts_tabular.zip ~ 7MB

County data
irw.s3.amazonaws.com/broadband/files/broadband_counties_gis.zip ~ 9MB
irw.s3.amazonaws.com/broadband/files/broadband_counties_tabular.zip ~ 280 KB

Please address any questions to Jacob Fenton.

Connected: Rural, poor areas lag in broadband

Stories in this investigation

  • Industry lobbying keeps public in dark about broadband
  • Broadband industry lobbying overview
  • Methodology: broadband subscribership estimates for cities and other tract subsets
  • Data: Broadband files
  • Use our broadband map on your site
  • Comcast lures former FCC aides to lobby for NBC merger

Multimedia

Broadband rate, 100 largest US metropolitan areas

Broadband rate, 100 largest US metropolitan areas

Broadband adoption map: South lags behind, rural areas improve

Broadband adoption map: South lags behind, rural areas improve

Broadband rate by state

Broadband rate by state

About the author

Jacob Fenton

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