Internet Access in Michigan: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Michigan

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Michigan Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

88%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

14%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

19.1

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

26th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

88.5%

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

86.9%

of Michiganders have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

5.6%

of Michiganders have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

96.0%

of Michiganders have access to wireline service.

7.2%

of Michiganders have access to fiber-optic service.

88.8%

of Michiganders have access to cable service.

91.0%

of Michiganders have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Michiganders have access to mobile broadband service.

43.6%

of Michiganders have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Michigan

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

AT&T Internet vs WOW!

Xfinity vs WOW!

AT&T Internet vs Spectrum

AT&T Internet vs TDS

Top 5 Fastest cities in Michigan

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Prudenville	81.9 MBPS	12 Providers
2.	Whitmore Lake	72.8 MBPS	12 Providers
3.	Richland	69.4 MBPS	16 Providers
4.	Plainwell	62.6 MBPS	19 Providers
5.	Otsego	60.8 MBPS	16 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Michigan

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Charter Spectrum	25.0 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	22.6 MBPS
WOW!	13.4 MBPS
AT&T Internet	9.4 MBPS
Frontier Communications	3.7 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connect Michigan has been awarded $4,755,684 in federal grants for Michigan's Broadband Initiative.
Another $108,574,985, accounting for 3.1% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Michigan.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 89.2% to 93.0% of Michiganders.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 247 internet providers in Michigan.
There are 1.1 million people in Michigan without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 1.0 million people in Michigan that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 391,000 people in Michigan 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.

Michigan CITIES


Adrian	86.7%	15 providers
Ann Arbor	94.0%	25 providers
Battle Creek	94.3%	22 providers
Bay City	99.0%	17 providers
Belleville	97.9%	14 providers
Benton Harbor	88.6%	14 providers
Bloomfield Hills	99.9%	23 providers
Brighton	99.3%	18 providers
Canton	98.6%	20 providers
Clarkston	99.4%	21 providers
Clinton Township	99.5%	21 providers
Davison	98.8%	15 providers
Dearborn	99.4%	18 providers
Dearborn Heights	99.7%	16 providers
Detroit	99.3%	29 providers
East Lansing	94.3%	20 providers
Eastpointe	100.0%	15 providers
Farmington	99.0%	28 providers
Fenton	98.3%	19 providers
Flint	98.2%	26 providers
Grand Blanc	98.4%	20 providers
Grand Rapids	98.3%	31 providers
Grosse Pointe	99.8%	18 providers
Hamtramck	96.8%	13 providers
Holland	95.7%	29 providers
Howell	92.8%	20 providers
Hudsonville	98.9%	17 providers
Jackson	89.5%	21 providers
Kalamazoo	98.6%	23 providers
Lake Orion	99.6%	22 providers
Lansing	98.7%	22 providers
Lapeer	94.5%	16 providers
Lincoln Park	99.6%	17 providers
Livonia	99.5%	27 providers
Macomb	99.9%	17 providers
Marquette	96.1%	14 providers
Midland	97.6%	20 providers
Monroe	99.1%	19 providers
Mount Pleasant	94.9%	20 providers
Muskegon	95.9%	21 providers
New Baltimore	99.6%	14 providers
Niles	95.9%	15 providers
Northville	99.6%	22 providers
Novi	98.7%	25 providers
Plymouth	99.0%	19 providers
Pontiac	97.4%	21 providers
Port Huron	98.8%	13 providers
Portage	99.5%	22 providers
Redford	99.7%	21 providers
Rochester	99.4%	25 providers
Rockford	95.9%	17 providers
Romulus	99.1%	16 providers
Roseville	99.1%	17 providers
Royal Oak	99.9%	23 providers
Saginaw	99.2%	21 providers
Saint Clair Shores	99.9%	19 providers
Southfield	98.6%	30 providers
Sterling Heights	99.1%	25 providers
Taylor	95.6%	19 providers
Traverse City	99.0%	21 providers
Trenton	99.2%	19 providers
Troy	99.6%	27 providers
Utica	99.9%	21 providers
Warren	98.5%	23 providers
Waterford	99.7%	20 providers
West Bloomfield	99.8%	20 providers
Westland	99.6%	22 providers
Wyoming	98.6%	26 providers
Ypsilanti	95.4%	17 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.