Internet Access in Ohio: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Ohio

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Ohio Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

92%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

11%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

22.3

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

16th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

92.5%

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

22.4%

of Ohioans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

9.4%

of Ohioans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

97.9%

of Ohioans have access to wireline service.

11.6%

of Ohioans have access to fiber-optic service.

93.0%

of Ohioans have access to cable service.

90.7%

of Ohioans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Ohioans have access to mobile broadband service.

47.7%

of Ohioans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Ohio

Spectrum vs WOW!

AT&T Internet vs WOW!

AT&T Internet vs Cox

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

Frontier vs WOW!

Top 5 Fastest cities in Ohio

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Franklin	104.2 MBPS	18 Providers
2.	Batavia	88.7 MBPS	12 Providers
3.	Walbridge	85.8 MBPS	11 Providers
4.	Greenfield	80.4 MBPS	11 Providers
5.	Harrison	78.5 MBPS	13 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Ohio

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
WOW!	30.3 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	26.4 MBPS
AT&T Internet	11.7 MBPS
Frontier Communications	4.7 MBPS
WATCH Communications	2.1 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connect Ohio has been awarded $7,025,762 in federal grants for Ohio's Broadband Initiative.
Another $141,300,142, accounting for 4.1% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Ohio.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 92.0% to 95.9% of Ohioans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 255 internet providers in Ohio.
There are 871,000 people in Ohio without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 1.0 million people in Ohio that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 246,000 people in Ohio 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.

Ohio CITIES


Akron	99.6%	22 providers
Alliance	98.1%	13 providers
Ashland	82.2%	14 providers
Ashtabula	99.5%	10 providers
Athens	91.5%	12 providers
Barberton	100.0%	13 providers
Batavia	99.9%	12 providers
Beachwood	100.0%	18 providers
Bowling Green	94.6%	17 providers
Brunswick	100.0%	17 providers
Canal Winchester	99.6%	13 providers
Canton	98.4%	23 providers
Chagrin Falls	92.5%	17 providers
Chillicothe	97.7%	9 providers
Cincinnati	99.9%	25 providers
Cleveland	98.4%	34 providers
Columbus	100.0%	25 providers
Cuyahoga Falls	100.0%	14 providers
Dayton	99.8%	26 providers
Delaware	97.0%	18 providers
Dublin	100.0%	20 providers
Eastlake	100.0%	11 providers
Elyria	98.4%	14 providers
Euclid	100.0%	17 providers
Fairborn	100.0%	16 providers
Fairfield	99.5%	17 providers
Findlay	98.5%	18 providers
Fremont	94.6%	16 providers
Grove City	100.0%	16 providers
Hamilton	98.8%	15 providers
Hilliard	99.9%	18 providers
Kent	100.0%	15 providers
Lakewood	99.9%	15 providers
Lancaster	93.4%	12 providers
Lebanon	99.7%	18 providers
Lima	97.9%	20 providers
Lorain	100.0%	12 providers
Loveland	100.0%	14 providers
Mansfield	92.3%	21 providers
Marion	95.1%	14 providers
Marysville	83.4%	13 providers
Mason	100.0%	15 providers
Massillon	55.4%	13 providers
Medina	99.0%	15 providers
Mentor	100.0%	16 providers
Miamisburg	100.0%	17 providers
Middletown	99.2%	18 providers
Milford	100.0%	12 providers
Newark	98.5%	9 providers
North Canton	98.6%	16 providers
North Olmsted	99.6%	22 providers
North Royalton	100.0%	19 providers
Painesville	99.8%	12 providers
Perrysburg	98.2%	18 providers
Pickerington	99.7%	17 providers
Portsmouth	100.0%	10 providers
Powell	100.0%	14 providers
Ravenna	96.2%	14 providers
Reynoldsburg	100.0%	16 providers
Sandusky	97.6%	16 providers
Sidney	93.1%	14 providers
Springfield	99.8%	15 providers
Steubenville	98.0%	16 providers
Stow	100.0%	15 providers
Strongsville	100.0%	20 providers
Sylvania	99.4%	13 providers
Toledo	98.4%	23 providers
Troy	98.6%	14 providers
Warren	98.9%	15 providers
West Chester	100.0%	15 providers
Westerville	100.0%	21 providers
Westlake	100.0%	20 providers
Willoughby	100.0%	13 providers
Wooster	27.6%	13 providers
Xenia	93.8%	17 providers
Youngstown	99.1%	20 providers
Zanesville	97.1%	11 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.