{"id":496,"date":"2015-03-18T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/census.missouri.edu\/?p=496"},"modified":"2022-11-04T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:42:35","slug":"internet-use-and-availability-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/internet-use-and-availability-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Use and Availability in Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report published by the U.S. Census Bureau in November 2014, based on the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS), indicated that only 75.6% of Missourians live in households with high-speed Internet use. This figure puts Missouri slightly below the national average of 78.1% and ranks the state fourteenth lowest in high-speed Internet adoption. Additionally, when examining high-speed Internet use within metropolitan areas, several Missouri cities exhibited adoption rates well below the national average of 78.1%. These include St Joseph, Cape Girardeau, Springfield, Joplin, and Jefferson City, which all had adoption rates of less than 73%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MO_internet_201503181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-501\" src=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MO_internet_201503181.jpg\" alt=\"High-speed Internet use vs. availability in Missouri\" width=\"792\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MO_internet_201503181.jpg 792w, https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MO_internet_201503181-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MO_internet_201503181-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MO_internet_201503181-660x442.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although\u00a0there is no reason to doubt the numbers from the US Census Bureau, it does paint a somewhat incomplete picture of the current state of high-speed internet availability in Missouri. The report focuses on the at-home use of high-speed Internet, rather than availability. This is an important distinction since, based on multiple years of data collection for Missouri&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mobroadbandnow.com\">State Broadband Initiative<\/a>, evidence suggests that most, if not all, Missourians do have access to high-speed connections from multiple wired and wireless providers.<\/p>\n<p>Reference: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/archives\/2014-pr\/cb14-202.html\">U.S. Census Report on High-Speed Internet Use<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report published by the U.S. Census Bureau in November 2014, based on the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS), indicated that only 75.6% of Missourians live in households with high-speed Internet use. This figure puts Missouri slightly below the national average of 78.1% and ranks the state fourteenth lowest in high-speed Internet adoption. Additionally, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,29,22],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-map-of-the-month","category-missouri","category-news","tag-internet"],"wps_subtitle":"Map of the Month","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}