Internet Access in Utah: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN Utah

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Utah Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

88.4%

TERRESTRIAL BROADBAND COVERAGE

26.3%

WIRED LOW-PRICE PLAN ACCESS

58.2

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

29th

STATE BROADBAND ACCESS RANKING

BROADBAND SPEEDS

96.1%

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

93.6%

of Utahns have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

30.2%

of Utahns have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

98.5%

of Utahns have access to wireline service.

32.9%

of Utahns have access to fiber-optic service.

90.7%

of Utahns have access to cable service.

96.3%

of Utahns have access to DSL service.

Largest Competing Providers In Utah

CenturyLink vs Xfinity

Frontier vs Xfinity

Coverage by County in Utah

County Name	% Broadband Coverage
Beaver	45.5%
Box Elder	84.6%
Cache	93.4%
Carbon	95.0%
Daggett	4.1%
Davis	98.5%
Duchesne	81.3%
Emery	96.4%
Garfield	98.0%
Grand	93.0%
Iron	89.3%
Juab	73.8%
Kane	88.5%
Millard	58.9%
Morgan	91.7%
Piute	100.0%
Rich	63.5%
Salt Lake	99.2%
San Juan	25.5%
Sanpete	90.1%
Sevier	93.7%
Summit	92.7%
Tooele	94.8%
Uintah	90.8%
Utah	98.4%
Wasatch	89.9%
Washington	91.5%
Wayne	89.5%
Weber	96.0%

Internet Speed in Top Utah Cities

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Salt Lake City	49.3 MBPS	32 Providers
2.	Ogden	66.5 MBPS	19 Providers
3.	West Jordan	66.5 MBPS	21 Providers
4.	Provo	71.4 MBPS	22 Providers
5.	Sandy	72.1 MBPS	23 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in Utah

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
XFINITY from Comcast	77.6 MBPS
Connext	65.0 MBPS
CenturyLink	30.3 MBPS
Utah Broadband	20.1 MBPS
Rise Broadband	12.8 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, The State of Utah Broadband Project has been awarded $5,196,025 in federal grants for Utah's Broadband Initiative.
Another $31,048,683, accounting for 0.9% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Utah.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 90.2% to 97.8% of Utahns.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 137 internet providers in Utah.
There are 108,000 people in Utah without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 192,000 people in Utah that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 45,000 people in Utah 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.

Utah CITIES


Alpine	97.6%	18 providers
American Fork	98.5%	20 providers
Beaver	5.6%	10 providers
Blanding	50.7%	8 providers
Bountiful	99.5%	18 providers
Brigham City	96.3%	17 providers
Cedar City	88.8%	13 providers
Centerville	100.0%	19 providers
Clearfield	97.3%	21 providers
Delta	60.6%	8 providers
Draper	96.6%	21 providers
Eagle Mountain	99.5%	17 providers
Eden	62.4%	12 providers
Ephraim	98.0%	10 providers
Farmington	99.5%	17 providers
Garland	88.0%	15 providers
Grantsville	91.5%	13 providers
Heber City	91.6%	14 providers
Helper	98.7%	13 providers
Herriman	99.1%	15 providers
Hooper	95.2%	14 providers
Hurricane	96.9%	14 providers
Hyde Park	99.3%	15 providers
Hyrum	97.0%	14 providers
Ivins	92.7%	13 providers
Kamas	99.5%	12 providers
Kanab	88.0%	10 providers
Kaysville	99.7%	16 providers
La Verkin	99.9%	12 providers
Layton	98.1%	20 providers
Lehi	99.0%	23 providers
Lindon	100.0%	24 providers
Logan	97.1%	22 providers
Magna	99.9%	17 providers
Mapleton	99.4%	18 providers
Midvale	99.7%	19 providers
Midway	92.1%	12 providers
Moab	92.7%	11 providers
Morgan	91.6%	13 providers
Mount Pleasant	90.9%	7 providers
Nephi	92.2%	11 providers
North Salt Lake	99.7%	19 providers
Ogden	97.0%	19 providers
Orem	99.2%	23 providers
Park City	90.7%	17 providers
Payson	91.4%	16 providers
Pleasant Grove	98.7%	23 providers
Price	92.6%	12 providers
Providence	99.5%	14 providers
Provo	99.9%	22 providers
Richfield	95.3%	8 providers
Riverton	99.7%	22 providers
Roosevelt	91.7%	7 providers
Roy	98.6%	13 providers
Saint George	94.3%	17 providers
Salem	98.4%	16 providers
Salt Lake City	99.5%	32 providers
Sandy	98.7%	23 providers
Santa Clara	99.9%	14 providers
Santaquin	92.7%	13 providers
Saratoga Springs	99.5%	20 providers
Smithfield	87.0%	14 providers
South Jordan	99.3%	19 providers
Spanish Fork	97.9%	17 providers
Springville	97.7%	17 providers
Syracuse	99.6%	18 providers
Tooele	97.1%	14 providers
Tremonton	68.9%	17 providers
Vernal	97.8%	8 providers
Washington	95.7%	14 providers
Wellsville	75.2%	15 providers
West Jordan	98.7%	21 providers
Woods Cross	99.2%	19 providers

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Last Updated on 2/6/2020.

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