Kentucky Internet Service Providers: Availability & Coverage

INTERNET ACCESS IN Kentucky

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Kentucky Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

91%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

19%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

33.8

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

27th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

92.5%

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

86.0%

of Kentuckians have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

26.4%

of Kentuckians have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.7%

of Kentuckians have access to wireline service.

25.2%

of Kentuckians have access to fiber-optic service.

83.1%

of Kentuckians have access to cable service.

85.4%

of Kentuckians have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Kentuckians have access to mobile broadband service.

36.8%

of Kentuckians have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Kentucky

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

AT&T Internet vs Suddenlink

AT&T Internet vs TDS

Top 5 Fastest cities in Kentucky

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Ledbetter	96.4 MBPS	9 Providers
2.	South Williamson	89.3 MBPS	10 Providers
3.	Scuddy	78.2 MBPS	6 Providers
4.	Silver Grove	70.4 MBPS	10 Providers
5.	Guthrie	63.4 MBPS	12 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Kentucky

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	44.2 MBPS
Mediacom Cable	37.8 MBPS
AT&T Internet	31.0 MBPS
Windstream	8.5 MBPS
Q Wireless	1.7 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connect Kentucky has been awarded $5,302,717 in federal grants for Kentucky's Broadband Initiative.
Another $535,308, accounting for 0.0% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Kentucky.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 79.9% to 95.3% of Kentuckians.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 176 internet providers in Kentucky.
There are 334,000 people in Kentucky without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 695,000 people in Kentucky that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 146,000 people in Kentucky 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.

Kentucky CITIES


Albany	93.7%	7 providers
Alexandria	98.8%	11 providers
Alvaton	74.9%	11 providers
Ashland	99.7%	15 providers
Auburn	73.8%	11 providers
Barbourville	79.0%	11 providers
Bardstown	77.1%	14 providers
Beattyville	26.9%	11 providers
Beaver Dam	79.8%	11 providers
Bedford	80.6%	12 providers
Bellevue	100.0%	11 providers
Benton	98.6%	13 providers
Berea	98.3%	9 providers
Booneville	97.5%	7 providers
Bowling Green	94.3%	17 providers
Brandenburg	99.2%	11 providers
Brodhead	92.8%	10 providers
Brooksville	68.2%	9 providers
Brownsville	92.7%	8 providers
Burkesville	69.8%	9 providers
Burlington	99.9%	12 providers
Butler	65.4%	7 providers
Cadiz	84.4%	9 providers
Calhoun	44.0%	12 providers
California	91.9%	9 providers
Calvert City	97.5%	16 providers
Campbellsville	90.1%	8 providers
Campton	96.2%	7 providers
Caneyville	76.9%	9 providers
Carlisle	47.0%	11 providers
Carrollton	88.9%	12 providers
Catlettsburg	91.2%	13 providers
Cave City	90.9%	10 providers
Cecilia	100.0%	9 providers
Central City	75.4%	14 providers
Clarkson	83.0%	9 providers
Clay City	26.1%	11 providers
Columbia	79.4%	9 providers
Corbin	94.5%	18 providers
Covington	100.0%	14 providers
Coxs Creek	47.6%	10 providers
Crab Orchard	77.2%	12 providers
Crestwood	99.5%	11 providers
Crittenden	98.7%	11 providers
Crofton	64.4%	10 providers
Cumberland	97.7%	11 providers
Cynthiana	55.4%	9 providers
Danville	88.5%	14 providers
Dawson Springs	73.4%	7 providers
Dayton	100.0%	10 providers
Dry Ridge	91.6%	14 providers
East Bernstadt	96.2%	10 providers
Eddyville	27.6%	10 providers
Edmonton	82.5%	8 providers
Elizabethtown	99.5%	12 providers
Elkhorn City	16.5%	10 providers
Elkton	66.0%	11 providers
Eminence	89.2%	9 providers
Erlanger	100.0%	11 providers
Eubank	95.3%	10 providers
Evarts	82.5%	7 providers
Fairdale	100.0%	11 providers
Falmouth	83.6%	8 providers
Fisherville	93.4%	11 providers
Flatwoods	100.0%	11 providers
Flemingsburg	81.9%	8 providers
Florence	98.9%	14 providers
Fort Campbell	93.6%	10 providers
Fort Knox	100.0%	10 providers
Fort Thomas	100.0%	15 providers
Frankfort	97.5%	15 providers
Franklin	72.8%	11 providers
Ft Mitchell	99.9%	13 providers
Fulton	67.8%	8 providers
Georgetown	93.2%	12 providers
Glasgow	84.4%	11 providers
Goshen	99.2%	12 providers
Gray	52.7%	13 providers
Grayson	66.2%	12 providers
Greensburg	87.5%	10 providers
Greenup	92.3%	9 providers
Greenville	85.9%	13 providers
Hardinsburg	77.8%	13 providers
Harlan	95.0%	9 providers
Harrodsburg	78.1%	12 providers
Hartford	44.9%	10 providers
Hawesville	1.0%	16 providers
Hazard	96.8%	12 providers
Hebron	99.8%	13 providers
Henderson	96.4%	16 providers
Hodgenville	86.4%	11 providers
Hopkinsville	95.2%	12 providers
Horse Cave	92.9%	8 providers
Hustonville	88.4%	12 providers
Independence	100.0%	11 providers
Inez	70.9%	10 providers
Irvine	96.4%	11 providers
Jackson	47.7%	11 providers
Jamestown	73.7%	10 providers
Jeffersonville	94.1%	10 providers
Jenkins	86.2%	11 providers
Kevil	100.0%	8 providers
La Grange	97.9%	11 providers
Lancaster	85.8%	11 providers
Latonia	100.0%	10 providers
Lawrenceburg	82.6%	13 providers
Lebanon	93.2%	9 providers
Lebanon Junction	96.5%	14 providers
Leitchfield	95.1%	10 providers
Lewisburg	58.6%	11 providers
Lewisport	42.3%	13 providers
Lexington	99.5%	17 providers
Liberty	94.4%	8 providers
London	98.6%	13 providers
Louisa	99.6%	13 providers
Louisville	100.0%	28 providers
Madisonville	95.7%	10 providers
Manchester	90.0%	11 providers
Marion	70.3%	9 providers
Mayfield	96.1%	14 providers
Maysville	36.2%	10 providers
Mc Kee	100.0%	8 providers
Middlesboro	99.6%	10 providers
Monticello	76.6%	11 providers
Morehead	98.3%	9 providers
Morganfield	80.2%	11 providers
Morgantown	60.0%	9 providers
Mount Sterling	93.2%	12 providers
Mount Vernon	96.0%	10 providers
Mount Washington	99.5%	11 providers
Munfordville	93.5%	8 providers
Murray	98.5%	11 providers
Nancy	82.7%	10 providers
New Haven	91.1%	11 providers
Newport	100.0%	15 providers
Nicholasville	98.4%	13 providers
Oak Grove	97.8%	15 providers
Olive Hill	87.8%	10 providers
Owensboro	98.4%	13 providers
Owenton	71.4%	11 providers
Owingsville	78.7%	12 providers
Paducah	98.1%	16 providers
Paintsville	98.5%	11 providers
Paris	79.5%	14 providers
Philpot	68.4%	13 providers
Pikeville	69.4%	17 providers
Pine Knot	100.0%	8 providers
Pineville	99.0%	9 providers
Prestonsburg	98.5%	12 providers
Princeton	76.3%	10 providers
Prospect	99.7%	12 providers
Providence	85.0%	9 providers
Radcliff	100.0%	14 providers
Richmond	94.8%	19 providers
Rineyville	100.0%	10 providers
Russell	99.8%	12 providers
Russell Springs	94.2%	10 providers
Russellville	92.6%	13 providers
Salyersville	100.0%	5 providers
Sandy Hook	100.0%	7 providers
Science Hill	96.7%	8 providers
Scottsville	99.4%	10 providers
Shelbyville	91.2%	12 providers
Shepherdsville	99.5%	12 providers
Simpsonville	82.5%	13 providers
Smiths Grove	87.1%	11 providers
Somerset	98.5%	10 providers
South Shore	87.2%	10 providers
Springfield	47.8%	14 providers
Stanford	75.2%	14 providers
Stanton	54.8%	11 providers
Stearns	100.0%	7 providers
Sturgis	83.7%	8 providers
Taylorsville	92.9%	10 providers
Tompkinsville	90.5%	8 providers
Union	99.8%	9 providers
Utica	44.8%	14 providers
Vanceburg	68.8%	9 providers
Versailles	97.4%	11 providers
Vine Grove	95.4%	11 providers
Walton	98.5%	12 providers
Waynesburg	80.9%	11 providers
West Liberty	100.0%	7 providers
West Paducah	97.3%	10 providers
Whitesburg	99.3%	11 providers
Whitley City	100.0%	8 providers
Williamsburg	96.0%	14 providers
Williamstown	91.0%	11 providers
Wilmore	96.6%	11 providers
Winchester	82.6%	14 providers

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Last Updated on 3/6/2019.

Broadband Internet in Kentucky