Kentucky's Broadband: Stats & Figures

BROADBAND IN Kentucky

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Kentucky Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

84%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

23%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

18.8

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

35th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

86.5%

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

24.4%

of Kentuckians have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

9.5%

of Kentuckians have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

95.6%

of Kentuckians have access to wireline service.

14.0%

of Kentuckians have access to fiber-optic service.

80.8%

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.

30.4%

of Kentuckians have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Kentucky

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Fort Thomas

52.2 MBPS

52.2">%

Independence

51.9 MBPS

51.9">%

Fort Knox

49.1 MBPS

49.1">%

Radcliff

41.7 MBPS

41.7">%

Greenup

40.9 MBPS

40.9">%

Largest Competing Providers In Kentucky

AT&T Internet vs XFINITY

AT&T Internet vs Suddenlink

AT&T Internet vs TDS

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 92.0% of Kentuckians.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 177 broadband providers in Kentucky.
There are 602,000 people in Kentucky without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 834,000 people in Kentucky that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 197,000 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%	17 providers
Bowling Green	93.0%	22 providers
Covington	100.0%	17 providers
Elizabethtown	98.2%	17 providers
Florence	98.9%	19 providers
Frankfort	97.5%	18 providers
Ft Mitchell	99.9%	17 providers
Georgetown	90.5%	17 providers
Glasgow	73.1%	17 providers
Henderson	90.3%	20 providers
Hopkinsville	90.9%	14 providers
Lexington	98.5%	24 providers
London	97.1%	16 providers
Louisville	99.9%	40 providers
Newport	99.1%	20 providers
Nicholasville	97.4%	15 providers
Owensboro	97.5%	16 providers
Paducah	97.0%	18 providers
Richmond	94.0%	22 providers
Shepherdsville	99.6%	16 providers
Somerset	96.1%	14 providers
Winchester	80.3%	18 providers

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Last Updated on 10/10/2017.