Table 1.
Broadband access rates by income and majority race/ethnicity, 2017–2021.
| Race/ethnicity | 2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
# tracts (2020) | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | |||
| Low income: 1st quantile (<45,250 in 2020) | |||||||
| F test (P) | 431.1 (<0.001) | 435.6 (<0.001) | 408.7 (<0.001) | 337.7 (<0.001) | 283.9 (<0.001) | ||
| AI or NH&PI | 36.5 (27.1, 46.7) | 40.0 (30.8, 47.4) | 46.3 (39.5, 51.7) | 48.0 (45.7, 59.2) | 51.2 (49.1, 65.9) | 7 | 40.3 |
| Asian | 56.5 (48.8, 63.2) | 54.3 (49.7, 65.2) | 52.5 (46.2, 60.6) | 55.0 (44.2, 65.9) | 56.3 (49.4, 68.4) | 86 | −0.3 |
| Black | 42.4 (34.4, 50.3) | 43.9 (35.5, 51.8) | 45.9 (37.2, 53.8) | 50.1 (40.9, 58.7) | 53.2 (44.1, 61.9) | 2980 | 25.5 |
| Hispanic | 45.7 (37.4, 54.2) | 47.2 (39.1, 55.3) | 49.2 (41.3, 56.8) | 52.8 (44.4, 60.3) | 56.3 (47.7, 63.9) | 2391 | 23.2 |
| No majority | 52.2 (43.9, 59.1) | 53.6 (45.7, 61.3) | 55.2 (47.4, 62.5) | 59.1 (50.6, 66.3) | 61.8 (53.5, 69.2) | 1887 | 18.4 |
| White | 57.8 (50.2, 65.0) | 59.3 (51.9, 66.2) | 61.0 (53.5, 67.6) | 63.3 (55.7, 70.5) | 65.7 (57.6, 72.4) | 2323 | 13.7 |
| Total | 48.5 (39.0, 57.1) | 49.9 (40.6, 58.8) | 51.7 (42.5, 60.4) | 55.9 (46.3, 64.3) | 58.8 (49.5, 67.1) | 9674 | 21.2 |
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| Low to medium income: 2nd quantile (45,250–64,395 in 2020) | |||||||
| F test (P) | 326.9 (<0.001) | 297.9 (<0.001) | 257.2 (<0.001) | 226.2 (<0.001) | 189.6 (<0.001) | ||
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| AI or NH&PI | 59.4 (59.4, 59.4) | 54.2 (54.2, 54.2) | 63.2 (63.1, 65.0) | 57.2 (52.4, 59.8) | 57.6 (54.2, 63.2) | 5 | −3 |
| Asian | 68.1 (61.3, 73.1) | 68.0 (62.8, 72.3) | 69.6 (62.4, 74.0) | 69.5 (62.8, 75.6) | 70.9 (64.7, 77.2) | 167 | 4.1 |
| Black | 60.1 (54.4, 65.9) | 61.8 (55.3, 67.4) | 63.4 (56.8, 69.1) | 66.5 (59.2, 72.4) | 68.4 (61.0, 74.7) | 897 | 13.8 |
| Hispanic | 58.7 (51.1, 65.0) | 59.9 (52.9, 66.5) | 61.7 (54.8, 67.9) | 64.7 (57.3, 71.1) | 67.0 (60, 73.4) | 2177 | 14.1 |
| No majority | 65.7 (59.5, 71.5) | 66.6 (60.6, 72.4) | 68.0 (62.0, 73.7) | 71.1 (64.5, 77.2) | 72.6 (66.3, 78.6) | 2002 | 10.6 |
| White | 68.0 (62.4, 73.3) | 69.2 (63.5, 74.3) | 70.3 (64.7, 75.5) | 72.7 (66.6, 78.3) | 74.4 (68.4, 79.8) | 4423 | 9.4 |
| Total | 64.9 (58.2, 71.0) | 66.0 (59.2, 72.0) | 67.3 (60.6, 73.3) | 70.1 (63.2, 76.5) | 71.9 (65.0, 78.1) | 9671 | 10.8 |
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| Medium to high income 3rd quantile (64,395–90,803 in 2020) | |||||||
| F test (P) | 118.6 (<0.001) | 121.4 (<0.001) | 119.3 (<0.001) | 148.9 (<0.001) | 138.7 (<0.001) | ||
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| AI or NH&PI | 65.9 (63.4, 70.0) | 64.9 (62.4, 67.2) | 64.4 (64.0, 66.9) | 67.8 (65.5, 70.2) | 69.0 (67.7, 75.8) | 5 | 4.7 |
| Asian | 74.5 (69.6, 78.9) | 75.2 (70.8, 79.4) | 74.7 (69.0, 78.8) | 75.4 (70.3, 81.2) | 78.0 (71.5, 82.2) | 242 | 4.7 |
| Black | 71.0 (64.7, 76.4) | 71.6 (65.4, 76.6) | 72.5 (65.7, 77.8) | 73.9 (65.7, 79.8) | 75.2 (67.2, 81.7) | 460 | 5.9 |
| Hispanic | 69.7 (63.5, 75.3) | 70.7 (65.1, 76.3) | 72.1 (66.2, 77.1) | 73.5 (67.3, 79.3) | 75.1 (69.3, 80.8) | 1244 | 7.7 |
| No majority | 75.3 (70.2, 80.1) | 76.0 (71.2, 80.9) | 76.7 (72.0, 81.1) | 78.7 (73.4, 83.6) | 79.8 (74.7, 84.8) | 1993 | 6 |
| White | 76.5 (71.5, 81.0) | 77.3 (72.4, 81.8) | 78.0 (73.2, 82.5) | 80.0 (74.8, 84.7) | 81.1 (76.0, 85.7) | 5728 | 6 |
| Total | 75.3 (69.8, 80.2) | 76.2 (70.8, 80.9) | 76.8 (71.6, 81.5) | 78.7 (72.8, 83.7) | 80.0 (74.3, 84.8) | 9672 | 6.2 |
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| High income: 4th quantile (≥90,803 in 2020) | |||||||
| F test (P) | 60.4 (<0.001) | 77.6 (<0.001) | 94.5 (<0.001) | 75.5 (<0.001) | 72.5 (<0.001) | ||
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| AI or NH&PI | 77.4 (72.6, 83.3) | 74.9 (70.6, 80.4) | 75.8 (72.8, 79.0) | 72.6 (70.1, 75.7) | 73.2 (69.4, 81.4) | 8 | −5.4 |
| Asian | 85.3 (80.7, 90.0) | 85.7 (81.6, 89.9) | 85.8 (81.1, 89.4) | 86.7 (81.7, 90.7) | 87.3 (82.2, 91.1) | 598 | 2.3 |
| Black | 77.2 (70.4, 82.7) | 76.8 (69.0, 83.3) | 76.8 (68.7, 82.6) | 79.3 (73.8, 85.3) | 81.2 (74.7, 86.0) | 142 | 5.2 |
| Hispanic | 79.7 (73.8, 84.1) | 79.0 (74.5, 84.3) | 79.6 (75.1, 84.9) | 80.8 (74.8, 86.4) | 82.3 (76.8, 87.5) | 284 | 3.3 |
| No majority | 83.3 (78.7, 87.5) | 83.4 (79.1, 87.5) | 83.5 (79.4, 87.8) | 85.2 (80.3, 90.0) | 86.0 (81.3, 90.2) | 1517 | 3.2 |
| White | 84.9 (80.6, 88.6) | 85.4 (81.2, 89.0) | 85.8 (81.9, 89.3) | 86.9 (82.2, 90.6) | 87.6 (83.1, 91.2) | 7123 | 3.2 |
| Total | 84.5 (80.0, 88.4) | 84.9 (80.5, 88.7) | 85.3 (81.1, 89.0) | 86.5 (81.5, 90.4) | 87.2 (82.4, 90.9) | 9672 | 3.2 |
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| CHDB total | 70.4 (56.9, 80.5) | 71.4 (58.0, 81.2) | 72.4 (59.5, 81.8) | 74.5 (62.4, 83.5) | 76.1 (64.7, 84.5) | 38,689 | 8.1 |
AI, American Indian; CHDB, City Health Dashboard; NH&PI, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander.