Community Vitality Indicator
Percent Households with No Internet
The percentage of households within ACT’s 8-county region that do not have access to the internet or do not subscribe to internet services from 2020 to 2022.
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The US Census Bureau’s website provides data on the population of counties and localities within the Rochester area, disaggregated by age and academic status lacking access to the internet. The data spans from 2020 to 2022.
101k
Over 100,000 households in our region did not have access to internet in the year 2022.
Yates
Yates County has the highest percentage of population without internet access at 26% in 2022.
-5.88%
There was a 5.88% decline in the total number of households with no access to internet from 2021 to 2022.
Pittsford
Pittsford had only 1.85% of its population with no access to internet in 2022, the lowest of any municipality in the 8-county region.
The infographic for “Percent Households with No Internet” shows an icon map for localities in the region. The scale is from 8% to 28%.
Spencerport became a hotspot (percentage of households without internet has increased from 11.8% to 16.1%) while Batavia and Penn Yan saw improvements in the number of households with internet (percentage of households without internet decreased from 15.0% to 9.3% in Batavia, and from 20.5% to 14.7% in Penn Yan).
Note: Counties outside of Monroe County tend to have lower numbers reflected in Census data, which increases the margin of error. In other words, be wary of dramatic changes.
This infographic shows a line graph with years as x-axis and households without internet as y-axis. Each line represents a county, defined in the legend. During a time when the internet is critical for schooling and remote work, this line graph gives insights about trends in household access.