Internet Access in Texas: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Texas

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Texas Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

87%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

20%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

42.0

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

30th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

87.7%

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

55.8%

of Texans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

15.6%

of Texans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

94.6%

of Texans have access to wireline service.

20.4%

of Texans have access to fiber-optic service.

85.8%

of Texans have access to cable service.

85.6%

of Texans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

100.0%

of Texans have access to mobile broadband service.

85.5%

of Texans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In Texas

AT&T Internet vs Xfinity

AT&T Internet vs Spectrum

AT&T Internet vs Suddenlink

Frontier vs Suddenlink

Frontier vs Xfinity

Top 5 Fastest cities in Texas

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Borger	136.7 MBPS	16 Providers
2.	Tomball	127.7 MBPS	20 Providers
3.	Snyder	123.6 MBPS	10 Providers
4.	Manvel	108.3 MBPS	17 Providers
5.	Bellaire	106.3 MBPS	18 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Texas

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
XFINITY from Comcast	49.3 MBPS
Charter Spectrum	48.8 MBPS
AT&T Internet	48.6 MBPS
Rise Broadband	5.6 MBPS
Ranch Wireless	3.5 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Connected Texas has been awarded $8,026,000 in federal grants for Texas's Broadband Initiative.
Another $67,698,503, accounting for 1.9% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Texas.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 87.9% to 91.2% of Texans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 455 internet providers in Texas.
There are 3.3 million people in Texas without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 3.9 million people in Texas that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 1.5 million people in Texas 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.

Texas CITIES


Abilene	91.8%	23 providers
Alamo	96.7%	16 providers
Alice	86.3%	12 providers
Allen	98.9%	26 providers
Alvarado	52.9%	20 providers
Alvin	81.5%	20 providers
Amarillo	94.1%	17 providers
Angleton	78.4%	18 providers
Arlington	99.9%	30 providers
Athens	73.3%	11 providers
Aubrey	86.8%	17 providers
Austin	99.8%	43 providers
Azle	58.4%	22 providers
Balch Springs	100.0%	22 providers
Bastrop	85.4%	22 providers
Bay City	78.5%	12 providers
Baytown	86.0%	18 providers
Beaumont	86.1%	18 providers
Bedford	100.0%	25 providers
Beeville	86.9%	13 providers
Belton	95.4%	17 providers
Big Spring	90.2%	12 providers
Boerne	92.4%	19 providers
Brenham	66.4%	11 providers
Brownsville	97.5%	20 providers
Brownwood	1.9%	15 providers
Bryan	87.2%	21 providers
Buda	91.4%	20 providers
Burleson	94.6%	25 providers
Canyon	96.6%	10 providers
Carrollton	99.5%	27 providers
Cedar Hill	98.1%	25 providers
Cedar Park	100.0%	16 providers
Channelview	99.9%	18 providers
Cibolo	97.9%	16 providers
Cleburne	76.7%	24 providers
Cleveland	55.8%	19 providers
College Station	90.2%	22 providers
Colleyville	100.0%	20 providers
Conroe	79.7%	31 providers
Converse	97.1%	21 providers
Coppell	98.5%	18 providers
Copperas Cove	93.9%	11 providers
Corpus Christi	99.3%	26 providers
Corsicana	7.4%	14 providers
Crosby	97.9%	12 providers
Crowley	93.8%	20 providers
Cypress	98.9%	22 providers
Dallas	98.4%	48 providers
Dayton	37.0%	13 providers
Deer Park	99.9%	20 providers
Del Rio	97.6%	12 providers
Del Valle	96.8%	18 providers
Denison	85.4%	18 providers
Denton	98.4%	27 providers
Desoto	99.6%	17 providers
Dickinson	95.2%	15 providers
Donna	83.2%	13 providers
Duncanville	83.7%	19 providers
Eagle Pass	97.9%	9 providers
Edinburg	78.4%	21 providers
El Paso	98.5%	27 providers
Elgin	62.1%	17 providers
Ennis	0.2%	17 providers
Euless	96.4%	25 providers
Floresville	17.3%	18 providers
Flower Mound	99.3%	23 providers
Forney	97.0%	18 providers
Fort Hood	100.0%	10 providers
Fort Worth	97.9%	38 providers
Fredericksburg	70.9%	15 providers
Fresno	78.5%	12 providers
Friendswood	97.8%	21 providers
Frisco	98.9%	25 providers
Gainesville	82.3%	14 providers
Galveston	96.3%	17 providers
Garland	99.8%	26 providers
Gatesville	25.7%	12 providers
Georgetown	90.6%	22 providers
Gilmer	95.2%	15 providers
Granbury	89.8%	17 providers
Grand Prairie	98.4%	26 providers
Grapevine	100.0%	23 providers
Greenville	80.6%	23 providers
Haltom City	99.4%	18 providers
Harker Heights	100.0%	9 providers
Harlingen	95.4%	17 providers
Helotes	93.5%	18 providers
Henderson	66.3%	17 providers
Hereford	85.9%	11 providers
Houston	93.9%	40 providers
Humble	94.9%	22 providers
Huntsville	67.1%	14 providers
Hurst	97.9%	25 providers
Hutto	95.5%	21 providers
Irving	98.9%	29 providers
Jacksonville	66.5%	12 providers
Katy	98.7%	25 providers
Keller	97.3%	23 providers
Kerrville	94.7%	14 providers
Kilgore	77.3%	14 providers
Killeen	98.1%	16 providers
Kingsville	86.2%	16 providers
Kingwood	99.1%	18 providers
Kyle	98.5%	19 providers
La Porte	99.0%	20 providers
Lake Jackson	97.5%	14 providers
Lancaster	97.7%	22 providers
Laredo	98.2%	23 providers
League City	97.7%	17 providers
Leander	95.9%	19 providers
Lewisville	93.1%	29 providers
Little Elm	96.9%	17 providers
Livingston	53.2%	11 providers
Longview	89.8%	18 providers
Lubbock	93.7%	22 providers
Lufkin	85.0%	13 providers
Lumberton	99.1%	11 providers
Mabank	68.1%	12 providers
Magnolia	84.7%	18 providers
Mansfield	96.8%	22 providers
Marshall	79.4%	15 providers
Mcallen	99.2%	22 providers
Mckinney	94.9%	27 providers
Mercedes	65.7%	16 providers
Mesquite	99.4%	27 providers
Midland	95.0%	24 providers
Midlothian	62.6%	18 providers
Mineral Wells	79.6%	15 providers
Mission	78.8%	20 providers
Missouri City	99.7%	20 providers
Montgomery	86.9%	20 providers
Mount Pleasant	68.9%	12 providers
Nacogdoches	79.8%	14 providers
Nederland	99.8%	10 providers
New Braunfels	99.0%	25 providers
New Caney	94.2%	14 providers
North Richland Hills	99.2%	23 providers
Odessa	79.4%	24 providers
Orange	75.1%	13 providers
Palestine	52.4%	13 providers
Pampa	88.0%	13 providers
Paris	86.9%	16 providers
Pasadena	93.5%	25 providers
Pearland	98.8%	22 providers
Pflugerville	99.0%	23 providers
Pharr	99.0%	19 providers
Plainview	87.4%	14 providers
Plano	98.6%	26 providers
Port Arthur	99.4%	11 providers
Porter	96.8%	14 providers
Red Oak	62.6%	18 providers
Richardson	97.4%	25 providers
Richmond	93.3%	20 providers
Rio Grande City	92.8%	11 providers
Roanoke	97.4%	22 providers
Robstown	71.7%	15 providers
Rockport	98.8%	16 providers
Rockwall	97.0%	24 providers
Rosenberg	86.9%	20 providers
Rosharon	37.5%	17 providers
Round Rock	99.5%	26 providers
Rowlett	100.0%	22 providers
Royse City	63.1%	16 providers
Sachse	100.0%	15 providers
San Angelo	93.9%	17 providers
San Antonio	98.3%	47 providers
San Benito	76.6%	12 providers
San Juan	99.3%	15 providers
San Marcos	95.2%	20 providers
Schertz	98.3%	21 providers
Seabrook	99.7%	17 providers
Seguin	75.6%	17 providers
Sherman	89.1%	19 providers
Southlake	100.0%	23 providers
Spring	98.5%	27 providers
Stafford	94.5%	20 providers
Stephenville	27.7%	14 providers
Sugar Land	98.8%	23 providers
Sulphur Springs	75.2%	17 providers
Temple	94.0%	21 providers
Terrell	65.2%	21 providers
Texarkana	97.3%	13 providers
Texas City	97.3%	15 providers
The Colony	96.9%	20 providers
Tomball	96.8%	20 providers
Tyler	94.3%	24 providers
Universal City	100.0%	25 providers
Uvalde	94.1%	11 providers
Victoria	85.9%	23 providers
Vidor	92.4%	10 providers
Waco	95.8%	25 providers
Waxahachie	35.9%	20 providers
Weatherford	66.8%	27 providers
Webster	87.0%	20 providers
Weslaco	90.6%	16 providers
Wichita Falls	94.7%	24 providers
Willis	83.3%	19 providers
Woodway	99.8%	20 providers
Wylie	99.6%	19 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.