FCC Form 477 Fixed Broadband Deployment Summary by Census Block with Provider Data, June 2021

This layer is no longer being actively maintained. For the latest broadband availability data from FCC, please see the FCC [Broadband Data Collection] (BDC). This layer shows fixed broadband availability for every neighborhood in the U.S. and outlying areas for June 2023. This layer is a composite of five sublayers with adjacent scale ranges showing the broadband score across the U.S. and outlying areas, at five different geographies – State, County, Tract, Block Group and Block. The broadband score is an index based on the FCC’s minimum standard of broadband of 25 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 3 Mbps upload. A geography with speeds of 25/3 Mbps is awarded 100 points. Each type of geometry contains housing, population, and internet usage data taken from the following sources: * US Census Bureau 2010 Census data (2010) * USDA Non-Rural Areas (2013) * FCC Form 477 Fixed Broadband Deployment Data (January - June 2021) * FCC Population, Housing Unit, and Household Estimates (2019). Note that these are derived from Census and other data. * Measurement Lab (Jan - June 2021) Broadband offering data from each provider for all geographies are available in related tables. Field Names / Record Structure This layer includes over 150 attributes relating to reported speed and service information. In addition: * Each block includes housing unit, household, and population [estimates] from the FCC. * Each block has an attribute named WaterOnly that indicates if it is entirely water (yes/no). * Each block has two attributes indicating whether it is urban or rural (CensusUrbanRural and USDAUrbanRural). For units larger than blocks, block count (urban/rural) was used to determine this. Some tracts and block groups have an equal number of urban and rural blocks—so a new coded value was introduced: S (split). All blocks are either U or R, while tracts and block groups can be U, R, or S. * Each block has three attributes indicating whether it is part of a Tribal Block Group, is part of an American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Area (AIANNHA) and the AIANNHA name. * US Census and USDA Rurality valuesAmalgamated broadband speed measurement categories based on Form 477. These include: * * 99: All Terrestrial Broadband Plus Satellite * 98: All Terrestrial Broadband * 97: Cable Modem * 96: DSL * 95: All Other (Electric Power Line, Other Copper Wireline, Other) The [FCC Speed Values] method is applied to all speeds from all data sources within this service. This includes: * Geography: State, County, Tract, Block Group, Block * Data source: FCC and M-Lab Within this method, speed values are shown as such: * <1 Mbps, reported up to three decimal points * >= 1 and < 2 Mbps, rounded to the nearest tenth * >= 2 and < 10 Mbps, truncated to the lower integer * >= 10 and < 1000 Mbps, rounded to the nearest integer * >= 1000 Mbps, the published bandwidth = 1000 Mbps Each sublayer has a varying number of attributes from these sources, depending on what data is available for the level of granularity. The following table displays what information is included with which geometry types: ───────────┬───────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────── Geometry │FCC Form 477 Fixed (Jan - Dec 2020)│FCC Demographic Estimates (2019)│M-Lab (Jan - Dec 2020)│BroadbandNow Avg. Min. Terrestrial Broadband Plan Prices│Urban/rural flags (Census and USDA) ───────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── State │Yes │Yes │Yes │Yes │No ───────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── County │Yes │Yes │Yes │Yes │No ───────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Tract │Yes │Yes │No │Yes │Yes (U, R, S) ───────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Block Group│Yes │Yes │No │Yes │Yes (U, R, S) ───────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Block │Yes │Yes │No │Yes │Yes (U, R) ───────────┴───────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────── Additional Resources * [FCC Staff Block Estimates] * [Fixed Broadband Deployment Data from FCC Form 477] * [Digital Divide: Broadband Pricing by State, ZIP Code, and Income Level] (BroadbandUSA) * [Open Internet Measurement] (M-Lab) * [Eligibility Area Map Datasets] (USDA)