Maryland's Broadband: Stats & Figures

BROADBAND IN Maryland

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Maryland Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

96%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

43.0

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

8th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

95.7%

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

95.4%

of Marylanders have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

0.0%

of Marylanders have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

97.6%

of Marylanders have access to wireline service.

60.2%

of Marylanders have access to fiber-optic service.

94.3%

of Marylanders have access to cable service.

77.0%

of Marylanders have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Marylanders have access to mobile broadband service.

21.6%

of Marylanders have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Maryland

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Sparrows Point

136.1 MBPS

136.1">%

Middletown

90.0 MBPS

90.0">%

Chevy Chase

84.9 MBPS

84.9">%

Burtonsville

84.7 MBPS

84.7">%

Saint Leonard

82.6 MBPS

82.6">%

Largest Competing Providers In Maryland

Verizon Fios vs XFINITY

XFINITY vs RCN

Verizon Fios vs RCN

XFINITY vs FairPoint

CenturyLink vs XFINITY

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Maryland Broadband Map has been awarded $4,755,768 in federal grants for Maryland's Broadband Initiative.
Another $115,240,581, accounting for 3.3% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Maryland.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 90.2% to 96.5% of Marylanders.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 119 broadband providers in Maryland.
There are 257,000 people in Maryland without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 350,000 people in Maryland that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 146,000 people in Maryland 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.

Maryland CITIES


Annapolis	94.5%	27 providers
Baltimore	95.1%	35 providers
Bel Air	99.0%	24 providers
Bethesda	99.7%	38 providers
Bowie	98.6%	25 providers
Brooklyn	95.2%	18 providers
Capitol Heights	99.8%	13 providers
Catonsville	97.0%	21 providers
Clinton	99.8%	18 providers
College Park	93.3%	21 providers
Columbia	98.6%	35 providers
Cumberland	92.3%	10 providers
District Heights	93.7%	23 providers
Dundalk	99.3%	14 providers
Elkton	97.3%	19 providers
Ellicott City	99.4%	23 providers
Essex	99.1%	15 providers
Fort Washington	98.0%	15 providers
Frederick	94.2%	24 providers
Gaithersburg	98.6%	36 providers
Germantown	97.4%	27 providers
Glen Burnie	98.3%	24 providers
Gwynn Oak	99.5%	15 providers
Hagerstown	93.8%	18 providers
Halethorpe	98.1%	22 providers
Hyattsville	98.6%	35 providers
Lanham	90.8%	23 providers
Laurel	97.4%	31 providers
Lutherville Timonium	97.3%	19 providers
Middle River	99.7%	17 providers
Montgomery Village	99.5%	19 providers
Nottingham	99.6%	17 providers
Odenton	98.8%	20 providers
Owings Mills	96.2%	27 providers
Parkville	96.9%	17 providers
Pasadena	99.6%	17 providers
Pikesville	98.0%	21 providers
Potomac	99.5%	21 providers
Reisterstown	98.9%	22 providers
Rockville	97.8%	35 providers
Salisbury	90.7%	14 providers
Severn	99.1%	12 providers
Silver Spring	96.5%	41 providers
Sykesville	96.7%	23 providers
Temple Hills	93.2%	17 providers
Towson	92.7%	29 providers
Upper Marlboro	98.4%	23 providers
Waldorf	98.6%	21 providers
Westminster	95.8%	22 providers
Windsor Mill	98.2%	21 providers

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Last Updated on 10/10/2017.