Internet Access in Illinois: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Illinois

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Illinois Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

93%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

10%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

47.2

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

16th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

93.2%

of Illinoisans have access to wired broadband 25mbps or faster.

92.0%

of Illinoisans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

17.0%

of Illinoisans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

97.5%

of Illinoisans have access to wireline service.

8.7%

of Illinoisans have access to fiber-optic service.

92.3%

of Illinoisans have access to cable service.

93.4%

of Illinoisans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Illinoisans have access to mobile broadband service.

87.8%

of Illinoisans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Illinois

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

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AT&T Internet vs RCN

Xfinity vs RCN

Top 5 Fastest cities in Illinois

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	La Prairie	118.1 MBPS	8 Providers
2.	Sugar Grove	107.2 MBPS	16 Providers
3.	Plymouth	106.0 MBPS	9 Providers
4.	Highland Park	97.7 MBPS	17 Providers
5.	Lake Zurich	96.2 MBPS	20 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Illinois

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
XFINITY from Comcast	61.1 MBPS
Everywhere Wireless	55.1 MBPS
AT&T Internet	32.2 MBPS
E-Vergent Wireless	23.4 MBPS
Rise Broadband	6.0 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Broadband Illinois has been awarded $6,554,641 in federal grants for Illinois's Broadband Initiative.
Another $173,923,501, accounting for 5.0% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Illinois.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 93.0% to 95.9% of Illinoisans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 337 internet providers in Illinois.
There are 881,000 people in Illinois without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 1.0 million people in Illinois that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 329,000 people in Illinois don't have any wired internet providers available where they live.

Sources: Data collected via the FCC, NTIA, and other sources. For a full list of data sources please visit our data page.

Illinois CITIES


Addison	99.7%	20 providers
Algonquin	99.9%	18 providers
Alsip	98.9%	19 providers
Alton	98.5%	14 providers
Antioch	98.2%	16 providers
Arlington Heights	98.2%	24 providers
Aurora	99.5%	25 providers
Barrington	99.5%	22 providers
Bartlett	99.0%	17 providers
Batavia	98.3%	20 providers
Belleville	98.9%	21 providers
Bellwood	99.7%	14 providers
Belvidere	96.4%	13 providers
Bensenville	100.0%	27 providers
Berwyn	99.9%	14 providers
Bloomingdale	99.7%	20 providers
Bloomington	98.1%	24 providers
Blue Island	93.0%	12 providers
Bolingbrook	99.9%	22 providers
Bourbonnais	96.7%	15 providers
Bridgeview	97.3%	20 providers
Brookfield	100.0%	12 providers
Buffalo Grove	99.6%	20 providers
Burbank	99.9%	12 providers
Calumet City	99.2%	14 providers
Canton	77.9%	13 providers
Carbondale	88.7%	13 providers
Carol Stream	99.8%	21 providers
Carpentersville	99.1%	17 providers
Cary	99.8%	15 providers
Centralia	83.2%	18 providers
Champaign	97.7%	23 providers
Charleston	85.1%	10 providers
Chicago	99.2%	46 providers
Chicago Heights	99.5%	12 providers
Chicago Ridge	100.0%	16 providers
Cicero	99.1%	13 providers
Collinsville	99.5%	17 providers
Country Club Hills	99.1%	14 providers
Crest Hill	100.0%	15 providers
Crete	98.2%	12 providers
Crystal Lake	99.7%	19 providers
Danville	86.9%	14 providers
Darien	99.7%	19 providers
Decatur	97.4%	20 providers
Deerfield	97.3%	22 providers
Dekalb	89.3%	17 providers
Des Plaines	96.1%	25 providers
Dixon	75.4%	10 providers
Dolton	100.0%	12 providers
Downers Grove	99.4%	22 providers
Dundee	99.4%	18 providers
East Moline	98.5%	14 providers
East Peoria	98.8%	18 providers
East Saint Louis	99.6%	17 providers
Edwardsville	93.1%	14 providers
Effingham	87.6%	17 providers
Elgin	99.1%	19 providers
Elk Grove Village	97.8%	24 providers
Elmhurst	99.8%	24 providers
Elmwood Park	99.6%	13 providers
Evanston	99.8%	19 providers
Evergreen Park	100.0%	14 providers
Fairview Heights	100.0%	19 providers
Forest Park	98.9%	14 providers
Frankfort	99.7%	15 providers
Franklin Park	99.9%	22 providers
Freeport	91.6%	12 providers
Galesburg	97.2%	16 providers
Geneva	99.4%	20 providers
Glen Ellyn	100.0%	21 providers
Glendale Heights	99.6%	22 providers
Glenview	97.4%	25 providers
Godfrey	94.0%	15 providers
Granite City	99.2%	13 providers
Grayslake	98.9%	19 providers
Great Lakes	84.9%	13 providers
Gurnee	99.6%	20 providers
Hampshire	86.7%	17 providers
Hanover Park	100.0%	19 providers
Harvey	99.7%	12 providers
Harwood Heights	100.0%	17 providers
Hazel Crest	99.9%	13 providers
Hickory Hills	100.0%	18 providers
Highland	91.9%	15 providers
Highland Park	99.7%	17 providers
Hinsdale	100.0%	19 providers
Hoffman Estates	97.6%	24 providers
Homer Glen	99.8%	15 providers
Homewood	99.7%	15 providers
Huntley	98.0%	13 providers
Jacksonville	88.6%	13 providers
Joliet	99.4%	22 providers
Justice	98.8%	16 providers
Kankakee	95.2%	16 providers
Kewanee	95.1%	13 providers
La Grange	98.7%	19 providers
Lake Forest	99.8%	22 providers
Lake In The Hills	99.4%	16 providers
Lake Villa	99.4%	17 providers
Lake Zurich	99.4%	20 providers
Lansing	99.9%	11 providers
Lemont	98.5%	14 providers
Libertyville	99.6%	21 providers
Lincoln	91.2%	12 providers
Lisle	99.9%	24 providers
Lockport	90.7%	16 providers
Lombard	96.8%	21 providers
Loves Park	99.6%	16 providers
Machesney Park	99.8%	19 providers
Macomb	97.2%	14 providers
Marion	84.9%	13 providers
Matteson	99.3%	12 providers
Mattoon	89.0%	12 providers
Maywood	99.6%	14 providers
Mchenry	99.5%	19 providers
Melrose Park	99.5%	19 providers
Midlothian	99.8%	15 providers
Mokena	99.7%	17 providers
Moline	99.6%	16 providers
Montgomery	99.4%	20 providers
Morris	88.5%	17 providers
Morton	92.7%	18 providers
Morton Grove	100.0%	16 providers
Mount Prospect	98.9%	20 providers
Mount Vernon	85.1%	17 providers
Mundelein	99.8%	21 providers
Murphysboro	90.2%	11 providers
Naperville	99.7%	30 providers
New Lenox	99.9%	15 providers
Niles	99.9%	17 providers
Normal	89.2%	18 providers
North Aurora	99.9%	18 providers
North Chicago	94.6%	17 providers
Northbrook	99.5%	23 providers
O Fallon	99.6%	16 providers
Oak Forest	100.0%	16 providers
Oak Lawn	99.5%	15 providers
Oak Park	100.0%	17 providers
Orland Park	98.0%	17 providers
Oswego	98.7%	21 providers
Ottawa	91.9%	18 providers
Palatine	98.8%	20 providers
Palos Heights	99.9%	17 providers
Palos Hills	99.6%	16 providers
Park Forest	97.9%	11 providers
Park Ridge	99.0%	17 providers
Pekin	94.3%	17 providers
Peoria	99.0%	30 providers
Plainfield	99.8%	18 providers
Pontiac	87.5%	11 providers
Prospect Heights	95.9%	21 providers
Quincy	96.0%	16 providers
Rantoul	96.2%	14 providers
Richton Park	99.5%	13 providers
Riverdale	99.7%	12 providers
Riverside	99.8%	16 providers
Rochelle	88.6%	12 providers
Rock Falls	88.4%	11 providers
Rock Island	99.6%	15 providers
Rockford	97.4%	20 providers
Rolling Meadows	98.9%	20 providers
Romeoville	99.6%	20 providers
Roscoe	99.2%	14 providers
Roselle	99.6%	19 providers
Round Lake	99.7%	14 providers
Saint Charles	97.9%	21 providers
Schaumburg	97.7%	29 providers
Shorewood	98.8%	14 providers
Skokie	100.0%	20 providers
South Elgin	99.8%	19 providers
South Holland	99.9%	16 providers
Springfield	98.2%	25 providers
Sterling	87.2%	13 providers
Streamwood	99.9%	16 providers
Streator	90.7%	17 providers
Sycamore	93.9%	16 providers
Taylorville	92.5%	12 providers
Tinley Park	99.7%	20 providers
Troy	98.4%	13 providers
Urbana	94.0%	20 providers
Vernon Hills	99.7%	24 providers
Villa Park	99.0%	18 providers
Washington	97.9%	20 providers
Waterloo	80.5%	16 providers
Wauconda	99.3%	17 providers
Waukegan	98.6%	21 providers
West Chicago	99.3%	22 providers
Westchester	100.0%	16 providers
Westmont	99.2%	20 providers
Wheaton	99.4%	23 providers
Wheeling	99.2%	21 providers
Willowbrook	97.8%	19 providers
Wilmette	100.0%	15 providers
Winnetka	99.8%	13 providers
Wood Dale	99.8%	18 providers
Woodridge	97.5%	19 providers
Woodstock	95.2%	17 providers
Yorkville	95.7%	20 providers
Zion	97.6%	12 providers

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Last Updated on 11/13/2018.

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