BROADBAND IN Washington

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

Washington Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

94%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

59.6

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

12th

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

94.4%

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

91.7%

of Washingtonians have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

13.8%

of Washingtonians have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

98.3%

of Washingtonians have access to wireline service.

31.3%

of Washingtonians have access to fiber-optic service.

90.1%

of Washingtonians have access to cable service.

92.9%

of Washingtonians have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.9%

of Washingtonians have access to mobile broadband service.

85.2%

of Washingtonians have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In Washington

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Bainbridge Island

87.8 MBPS

87.8">%

Mercer Island

81.7 MBPS

81.7">%

Spanaway

78.0 MBPS

78.0">%

Bellevue

77.5 MBPS

77.5">%

North Bend

77.0 MBPS

77.0">%

Largest Competing Providers In Washington

CenturyLink vs XFINITY

Frontier vs XFINITY

Charter Spectrum vs CenturyLink

Charter Spectrum vs Frontier

XFINITY vs FairPoint

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, Washington State Broadband Project has been awarded $7,314,042 in federal grants for Washington's Broadband Initiative.
Another $166,058,182, accounting for 4.8% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in Washington.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 90.4% to 97.2% of Washingtonians.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 205 broadband providers in Washington.
There are 395,000 people in Washington without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 533,000 people in Washington that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 122,000 people in Washington 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.

Washington CITIES


Arlington	80.8%	17 providers
Auburn	99.0%	22 providers
Battle Ground	91.0%	17 providers
Bellevue	99.6%	38 providers
Bellingham	98.4%	19 providers
Bonney Lake	98.9%	14 providers
Bothell	99.3%	28 providers
Bremerton	98.1%	26 providers
Edmonds	99.7%	20 providers
Ellensburg	92.8%	14 providers
Everett	98.9%	30 providers
Federal Way	99.0%	23 providers
Gig Harbor	95.9%	21 providers
Issaquah	99.1%	21 providers
Kennewick	99.5%	25 providers
Kent	99.3%	29 providers
Kirkland	99.4%	23 providers
Lacey	98.0%	21 providers
Lake Stevens	98.5%	11 providers
Lakewood	99.6%	25 providers
Longview	99.1%	13 providers
Lynnwood	99.2%	29 providers
Maple Valley	98.8%	13 providers
Marysville	85.6%	23 providers
Moses Lake	100.0%	18 providers
Mount Vernon	92.3%	18 providers
Oak Harbor	96.7%	14 providers
Olympia	97.0%	29 providers
Pasco	96.5%	22 providers
Port Angeles	88.0%	14 providers
Port Orchard	98.0%	18 providers
Pullman	83.9%	15 providers
Puyallup	99.9%	32 providers
Redmond	99.2%	30 providers
Renton	98.1%	29 providers
Richland	98.6%	26 providers
Sammamish	99.3%	23 providers
Seattle	98.5%	43 providers
Shelton	93.6%	14 providers
Snohomish	97.4%	16 providers
Spanaway	99.3%	15 providers
Spokane	96.7%	32 providers
Tacoma	98.7%	36 providers
Vancouver	99.3%	39 providers
Walla Walla	99.9%	18 providers
Wenatchee	98.8%	15 providers
Woodinville	98.4%	26 providers
Yakima	93.8%	23 providers

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Last Updated on 7/11/2017.