Digital divide
Where do Chicago households go without home internet? This map shows the share of households without a home broadband subscription across the 77 community areas. Search your address or click any community area, and switch between “no home broadband” and “no internet at all”.
How to read this map
This is the adoption side of the digital divide — the share of households that don’t have a home broadband subscription, from the U.S. Census American Community Survey. We show each community area as the area-weighted average of the census tracts it covers, so a warmer color means more households are offline. The “no internet at all” tab is the sharper measure: households with no internet access of any kind.
Adoption is not the same as availability: a household may have broadband for sale on its street but not subscribe — often a question of cost. A map of where high-speed service is physically offered (FCC data) is a planned complement.
Source: U.S. Census ACS 5-year table B28002 (internet subscriptions, 2023 release), by census tract, intersected with Census TIGER/Line tract boundaries for Cook County. See methodology for details.