New ACCESS BROADBAND Dashboard Helps Assess How Broadband Availability and Adoption Impact Local Economies

Who has access to broadband in your community? What is the demographic and economic profile of the communities that don’t? How could investments in broadband infrastructure impact your local economy?

As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the ACCESS BROADBAND Act of 2021 charged the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) with tracking federal broadband investment. The legislation requires NTIA to report on the economic impact of federal broadband investments on local economies, including any effect on small businesses or jobs.

The NTIA has been working with the U.S. Census Bureau to develop the ACCESS BROADBAND Dashboard as part of this effort.

The dashboard includes a series of maps showing different broadband access measures as well as economic characteristics that research suggests could be influenced by increased access to broadband.

The dashboard is designed to help policymakers and the public assess how changes in broadband availability and adoption could impact local economies.

The interactive dashboard includes a series of maps displaying statistics on broadband access as well as select social and economic characteristics. All maps are available for U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and counties. A few are available at the census tract level. Most maps also include statistics for Puerto Rico.

This first release of the ACCESS BROADBAND Dashboard enables users to assess baseline economic characteristics at the smallest geographic level possible.

The NTIA and Census Bureau plan to update the dashboard annually which will allow users to assess the economic impact on areas where broadband availability and adoption efforts are underway.

Each release will include the interactive dashboard and supplemental data files so users can access the underlying map data.

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