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

32.1

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.	Heath	105.9 MBPS	12 Providers
2.	Northwood	82.7 MBPS	14 Providers
3.	Hilliard	80.7 MBPS	18 Providers
4.	Van Wert	80.2 MBPS	16 Providers
5.	Harrison	76.4 MBPS	13 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Ohio

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
WOW!	42.9 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	36.9 MBPS
AT&T Internet	15.6 MBPS
Frontier Communications	6.0 MBPS
WATCH Communications	2.3 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 253 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
Amelia	100.0%	12 providers
Amherst	98.6%	13 providers
Ashland	82.2%	14 providers
Ashtabula	99.5%	10 providers
Athens	91.5%	12 providers
Aurora	100.0%	11 providers
Avon	99.7%	14 providers
Avon Lake	100.0%	17 providers
Barberton	100.0%	13 providers
Batavia	99.9%	12 providers
Bay Village	100.0%	11 providers
Beachwood	100.0%	18 providers
Bedford	99.5%	18 providers
Bellefontaine	88.9%	12 providers
Bellevue	85.1%	13 providers
Berea	100.0%	18 providers
Bethel	95.8%	9 providers
Blacklick	100.0%	13 providers
Bowling Green	94.6%	17 providers
Brecksville	100.0%	16 providers
Broadview Heights	100.0%	19 providers
Brookpark	100.0%	20 providers
Brookville	96.7%	14 providers
Brunswick	100.0%	17 providers
Bryan	86.9%	12 providers
Bucyrus	86.0%	10 providers
Cambridge	87.8%	14 providers
Canal Fulton	19.4%	12 providers
Canal Winchester	99.6%	13 providers
Canfield	99.2%	13 providers
Canton	98.4%	23 providers
Celina	88.7%	18 providers
Chagrin Falls	92.5%	17 providers
Chardon	98.9%	15 providers
Chillicothe	97.7%	9 providers
Cincinnati	99.9%	25 providers
Circleville	78.8%	13 providers
Cleveland	98.4%	34 providers
Cleves	100.0%	10 providers
Columbus	100.0%	25 providers
Conneaut	94.5%	8 providers
Cortland	98.1%	10 providers
Coshocton	90.7%	11 providers
Cuyahoga Falls	100.0%	14 providers
Dayton	99.8%	26 providers
Defiance	86.3%	16 providers
Delaware	97.0%	18 providers
Dover	92.8%	10 providers
Dublin	100.0%	20 providers
East Liverpool	96.1%	11 providers
Eastlake	100.0%	11 providers
Eaton	86.8%	16 providers
Elyria	98.4%	14 providers
Englewood	100.0%	14 providers
Euclid	100.0%	17 providers
Fairborn	100.0%	16 providers
Fairfield	99.5%	17 providers
Findlay	98.5%	18 providers
Fostoria	95.0%	13 providers
Franklin	100.0%	18 providers
Fremont	94.6%	16 providers
Galion	92.9%	10 providers
Gallipolis	51.2%	11 providers
Galloway	100.0%	16 providers
Geneva	97.4%	9 providers
Girard	99.8%	11 providers
Grafton	19.6%	13 providers
Granville	99.4%	11 providers
Greenville	91.7%	13 providers
Grove City	100.0%	16 providers
Groveport	99.6%	17 providers
Hamilton	98.8%	15 providers
Harrison	99.8%	13 providers
Heath	92.3%	12 providers
Hilliard	99.9%	18 providers
Hillsboro	71.3%	12 providers
Holland	97.0%	14 providers
Hubbard	99.4%	10 providers
Hudson	100.0%	13 providers
Huron	96.0%	16 providers
Independence	99.9%	22 providers
Ironton	99.1%	10 providers
Jackson	74.3%	12 providers
Johnstown	96.9%	12 providers
Kent	100.0%	15 providers
Kenton	76.0%	15 providers
Lakewood	99.9%	15 providers
Lancaster	93.4%	12 providers
Lebanon	99.7%	18 providers
Lewis Center	100.0%	17 providers
Lima	97.9%	20 providers
Lisbon	48.3%	12 providers
Logan	67.7%	11 providers
London	93.5%	13 providers
Lorain	100.0%	12 providers
Louisville	98.3%	9 providers
Loveland	100.0%	14 providers
Lucasville	71.9%	10 providers
Macedonia	100.0%	14 providers
Madison	99.4%	9 providers
Maineville	100.0%	12 providers
Mansfield	92.3%	21 providers
Maple Heights	100.0%	19 providers
Marietta	95.2%	11 providers
Marion	95.1%	14 providers
Marysville	83.4%	13 providers
Mason	100.0%	15 providers
Massillon	55.4%	13 providers
Maumee	100.0%	20 providers
Medina	99.0%	15 providers
Mentor	100.0%	16 providers
Miamisburg	100.0%	17 providers
Middlefield	55.2%	13 providers
Middletown	99.2%	18 providers
Milford	100.0%	12 providers
Millersburg	39.1%	12 providers
Mogadore	100.0%	9 providers
Morrow	93.5%	13 providers
Mount Vernon	81.1%	9 providers
Napoleon	80.6%	16 providers
New Albany	100.0%	15 providers
New Carlisle	98.0%	12 providers
New Philadelphia	93.2%	11 providers
Newark	98.5%	9 providers
Niles	97.2%	9 providers
North Canton	98.6%	16 providers
North Olmsted	99.6%	22 providers
North Ridgeville	99.9%	14 providers
North Royalton	100.0%	19 providers
Northfield	100.0%	9 providers
Norwalk	94.4%	10 providers
Oberlin	22.2%	15 providers
Olmsted Falls	99.7%	12 providers
Oregon	99.9%	18 providers
Orient	86.8%	13 providers
Orrville	88.1%	13 providers
Oxford	95.6%	13 providers
Painesville	99.8%	12 providers
Pataskala	99.7%	15 providers
Perrysburg	98.2%	18 providers
Pickerington	99.7%	17 providers
Piqua	97.7%	12 providers
Plain City	93.8%	14 providers
Port Clinton	98.3%	14 providers
Portsmouth	100.0%	10 providers
Powell	100.0%	14 providers
Ravenna	96.2%	14 providers
Reynoldsburg	100.0%	16 providers
Rocky River	98.9%	19 providers
Saint Clairsville	87.2%	14 providers
Saint Marys	90.6%	16 providers
Salem	92.6%	15 providers
Sandusky	97.6%	16 providers
Sheffield Lake	99.6%	13 providers
Shelby	91.8%	12 providers
Sidney	93.1%	14 providers
Solon	100.0%	17 providers
South Point	92.1%	11 providers
Springboro	100.0%	15 providers
Springfield	99.8%	15 providers
Steubenville	98.0%	16 providers
Stow	100.0%	15 providers
Streetsboro	99.9%	12 providers
Strongsville	100.0%	20 providers
Sunbury	92.2%	13 providers
Swanton	90.7%	13 providers
Sylvania	99.4%	13 providers
Tallmadge	100.0%	13 providers
Tiffin	92.4%	16 providers
Tipp City	99.2%	17 providers
Toledo	98.4%	23 providers
Trenton	98.1%	12 providers
Troy	98.6%	14 providers
Twinsburg	99.0%	12 providers
Uniontown	100.0%	15 providers
Urbana	92.5%	13 providers
Van Wert	87.0%	16 providers
Vandalia	100.0%	19 providers
Vermilion	99.0%	10 providers
Wadsworth	100.0%	11 providers
Wapakoneta	88.7%	14 providers
Warren	98.9%	15 providers
Washington Court House	92.8%	11 providers
Wauseon	75.6%	13 providers
Waverly	91.5%	9 providers
Wellington	55.2%	12 providers
West Chester	100.0%	15 providers
Westerville	100.0%	21 providers
Westlake	100.0%	20 providers
Wheelersburg	84.2%	9 providers
Wickliffe	100.0%	15 providers
Willard	85.8%	12 providers
Willoughby	100.0%	13 providers
Wilmington	80.8%	16 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.

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