Average Internet Speed In Each US State For 2018

Last month, we wrote about the minimum recommended internet connection speed required for gaming and other stuff. (Spoiler: It’s 16 Mbps).

After writing that post, we thought why not find out which US states can actually give you that speed – on average. After all, the internet speed in US is one of the worst among the first-world countries.

Much to our surprise, almost all the internet related stats for US’ states were for the year 2016 and 2017.

So, we gathered fresh data from BroadbandNow.com and came up with a Map that shows average internet speed in each US state for the past 12 months (August 2017 – July 2018).

As far as the validity of this data is concerned, guys at BroadBandNow.com have stated that they have gathered this data by pulling the FCC’s bi-annual coverage data, census data, as well as private data they got from providers directly, or from other private data sources. Read more about this here.

As you may have realized by now, all the US states are internet friendly – the slowest speed is in Montana with 20.3 Mbps (more than good enough to play PUBG while your younger sibling is downloading torrent files).

More interesting, however, is the huge difference between the internet speeds of different states. New Jersey, for example, has 52 Mbps average speed, which is more than 2.5 times than the speed in Maine (21 Mbps).

Another thing you might have noticed in this map is that many states with high internet speed (like New Jersey, Maryland, and Rhode Island etc) are situated along the east coast.

At last, if geography wasn’t your forte in high school, we have listed a table below that contains all the US states’ names and their respective speeds.

State

Average internet speed

% difference with national average (25.86 Mbps)

Alabama 33.7 +30.3
Alaska 27.9 +7.9
Arizona 33.9 +31.1
Arkansas 25 -3.3
California 29 +12.1
Colorado 40.9 +58.2
Connecticut 41.8 +61.6
Delaware 44.9 +73.6
District of Columbia 48.2 +86.4
Florida 41.2 +59.3
Georgia 39.1 +51.2
Hawaii 22.5 -13
Idaho 25.6 -1
Illinois 40.4 +56.2
Indiana 36.7 +41.9
Iowa 24.7 -4.5
Kansas 39.9 +54.3
Kentucky 30.5 +17.9
Louisiana 35.1 +35.7
Maine 21.2 -18
Maryland 51.3 +98.4
Massachusetts 43.5 +68.2
Michigan 28.7 +11
Minnesota 36.8 +42.3
Mississippi 25.2 -2.6
Missouri 38.5 +48.9
Montana 20.3 -21.5
Nebraska 27.1 +4.8
Nevada 34.3 +32.6
New Hampshire 37.4 +44.6
New Jersey 52 +101.1
New Mexico 30 +16
New York 45.2 +74.8
North Carolina 42.4 +64
North Dakota 28.6 +10.6
Ohio 32.1 +24.1
Oklahoma 40.2 +55.5
Oregon 39.1 +51.2
Pennsylvania 41.4 +60.1
Rhode Island 46.7 +80.6
South Carolina 39.3 +52
South Dakota 26.8 +3.6
Tennessee 36.6 +41.5
Texas 46.9 +81.4
Utah 37.2 +43.9
Vermont 22.4 -13.4
Virginia 48.7 +88.3
Washington 41 +58.5
West Virginia 29.9 +15.6
Wisconsin 37.4 +44.6
Wyoming 26.8 +3.6

 

So, how is the internet situation in your state?

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