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.

92%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

11%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

32.3

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

17th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

92.4%

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

91.3%

of Illinoisans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

3.8%

of Illinoisans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

97.3%

of Illinoisans have access to wireline service.

5.4%

of Illinoisans have access to fiber-optic service.

91.7%

of Illinoisans have access to cable service.

93.3%

of Illinoisans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Illinoisans have access to mobile broadband service.

91.0%

of Illinoisans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Illinois

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Top 5 Fastest cities in Illinois

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Montgomery	157.0 MBPS	19 Providers
2.	Oak Park	101.3 MBPS	16 Providers
3.	Sugar Grove	97.6 MBPS	17 Providers
4.	North Aurora	96.4 MBPS	19 Providers
5.	Roselle	93.4 MBPS	19 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Illinois

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Everywhere Wireless	49.1 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	39.8 MBPS
AT&T Internet	22.9 MBPS
E-Vergent Wireless	8.6 MBPS
Rise Broadband	5.0 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 95.5% of Illinoisans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 333 internet providers in Illinois.
There are 994,000 people in Illinois without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 1.1 million people in Illinois that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 351,000 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%	19 providers
Algonquin	99.9%	17 providers
Alton	97.8%	14 providers
Arlington Heights	97.6%	24 providers
Aurora	99.5%	27 providers
Barrington	99.4%	22 providers
Bartlett	99.0%	17 providers
Belleville	98.5%	20 providers
Belvidere	95.6%	13 providers
Berwyn	99.9%	13 providers
Bloomington	97.5%	23 providers
Bolingbrook	99.9%	23 providers
Buffalo Grove	99.0%	20 providers
Calumet City	99.2%	14 providers
Carbondale	81.6%	12 providers
Carol Stream	99.8%	22 providers
Carpentersville	99.1%	17 providers
Champaign	97.5%	24 providers
Chicago	98.7%	42 providers
Chicago Heights	99.5%	11 providers
Cicero	99.0%	15 providers
Collinsville	99.0%	15 providers
Crystal Lake	99.6%	17 providers
Danville	85.4%	15 providers
Decatur	97.4%	20 providers
Dekalb	89.2%	18 providers
Des Plaines	95.7%	26 providers
Downers Grove	99.4%	24 providers
East Saint Louis	89.3%	16 providers
Edwardsville	92.9%	14 providers
Elgin	99.1%	19 providers
Elk Grove Village	97.8%	24 providers
Elmhurst	99.7%	22 providers
Elmwood Park	99.6%	15 providers
Evanston	99.8%	20 providers
Frankfort	99.5%	18 providers
Freeport	91.6%	12 providers
Galesburg	95.7%	15 providers
Glen Ellyn	100.0%	20 providers
Glendale Heights	99.6%	21 providers
Glenview	97.4%	24 providers
Granite City	99.2%	13 providers
Grayslake	98.3%	17 providers
Gurnee	99.6%	20 providers
Hanover Park	100.0%	18 providers
Hoffman Estates	97.6%	23 providers
Joliet	99.3%	26 providers
Kankakee	95.0%	14 providers
La Grange	98.6%	19 providers
Lake Villa	98.6%	16 providers
Lake Zurich	99.4%	20 providers
Lockport	90.5%	18 providers
Lombard	96.8%	22 providers
Mchenry	99.0%	20 providers
Melrose Park	99.5%	20 providers
Moline	99.8%	15 providers
Mount Prospect	98.9%	19 providers
Mundelein	99.6%	20 providers
Naperville	99.6%	30 providers
New Lenox	99.8%	18 providers
Normal	89.0%	17 providers
Northbrook	99.4%	23 providers
O Fallon	99.4%	16 providers
Oak Lawn	99.5%	15 providers
Oak Park	100.0%	16 providers
Orland Park	97.7%	18 providers
Oswego	98.1%	22 providers
Palatine	98.7%	20 providers
Park Ridge	99.0%	18 providers
Pekin	94.2%	16 providers
Peoria	98.6%	29 providers
Plainfield	99.7%	19 providers
Quincy	95.9%	15 providers
Rock Island	99.2%	15 providers
Rockford	97.1%	19 providers
Romeoville	97.5%	21 providers
Round Lake	99.7%	14 providers
Saint Charles	97.9%	21 providers
Schaumburg	97.6%	29 providers
Skokie	100.0%	19 providers
Springfield	98.1%	27 providers
Streamwood	99.9%	16 providers
Tinley Park	99.7%	21 providers
Urbana	93.8%	21 providers
Waukegan	98.6%	20 providers
West Chicago	99.0%	22 providers
Wheaton	99.4%	23 providers
Wheeling	99.2%	21 providers
Woodridge	97.5%	20 providers
Woodstock	91.8%	18 providers
Zion	97.6%	12 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.