Internet Access in Kentucky: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Kentucky

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Kentucky Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

85%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

22%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

23.4

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

35th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

88.3%

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

29.5%

of Kentuckians have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

12.9%

of Kentuckians have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

95.8%

of Kentuckians have access to wireline service.

18.3%

of Kentuckians have access to fiber-optic service.

80.5%

of Kentuckians have access to cable service.

83.8%

of Kentuckians have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Kentuckians have access to mobile broadband service.

30.9%

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.	Erlanger	123.8 MBPS	11 Providers
2.	Independence	77.2 MBPS	11 Providers
3.	Ft Mitchell	72.7 MBPS	13 Providers
4.	Versailles	62.6 MBPS	12 Providers
5.	Virgie	59.6 MBPS	7 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Kentucky

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	31.6 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	28.6 MBPS
AT&T Internet	18.7 MBPS
Windstream	6.4 MBPS
Q Wireless	1.1 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 92.4% of Kentuckians.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 176 internet providers in Kentucky.
There are 524,000 people in Kentucky without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 813,000 people in Kentucky that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 187,000 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


Ashland	99.6%	14 providers
Bowling Green	93.2%	15 providers
Covington	100.0%	12 providers
Elizabethtown	99.6%	12 providers
Florence	98.9%	14 providers
Frankfort	97.5%	15 providers
Ft Mitchell	99.9%	13 providers
Georgetown	90.4%	14 providers
Glasgow	78.1%	12 providers
Henderson	90.3%	15 providers
Hopkinsville	91.2%	12 providers
Lexington	98.5%	17 providers
London	97.4%	13 providers
Louisville	99.9%	24 providers
Newport	99.5%	15 providers
Nicholasville	98.2%	13 providers
Owensboro	97.5%	13 providers
Paducah	98.1%	16 providers
Richmond	94.0%	18 providers
Shepherdsville	99.6%	12 providers
Somerset	97.3%	10 providers
Winchester	80.3%	13 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.