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”.

Full ranking — all 77 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	households without home broadband (%)
1	Fuller Park	30.9%
2	Gage Park	22.9%
3	Englewood	22.3%
4	West Englewood	20.8%
5	Chatham	20.7%
6	West Garfield Park	20.7%
7	South Lawndale	20.4%
8	Pullman	20.3%
9	Chicago Lawn	20.0%
10	East Garfield Park	19.8%
11	Auburn Gresham	19.5%
12	Roseland	19.1%
13	Armour Square	19.0%
14	Avalon Park	18.8%
15	North Lawndale	18.8%
16	Archer Heights	18.4%
17	Austin	18.3%
18	O'Hare	18.1%
19	Belmont Cragin	17.8%
20	West Elsdon	17.7%
21	Greater Grand Crossing	16.8%
22	Morgan Park	16.6%
23	Brighton Park	16.3%
24	Dunning	16.0%
25	South Chicago	15.9%
26	Woodlawn	15.8%
27	West Pullman	15.3%
28	New City	15.2%
29	West Lawn	15.1%
30	Hermosa	15.0%
31	Riverdale	14.9%
32	Humboldt Park	14.8%
33	South Shore	14.3%
34	Near West Side	14.1%
35	Washington Heights	13.6%
36	Garfield Ridge	13.3%
37	South Deering	13.2%
38	Jefferson Park	13.0%
39	Montclare	12.9%
40	Oakland	12.9%
41	Kenwood	12.6%
42	Lower West Side	12.5%
43	Albany Park	12.4%
44	Calumet Heights	12.0%
45	Hegewisch	12.0%
46	Burnside	11.9%
47	Norwood Park	11.9%
48	Grand Boulevard	11.8%
49	Loop	11.7%
50	Ashburn	11.3%
51	Portage Park	11.0%
52	Douglas	10.8%
53	Edison Park	10.8%
54	Rogers Park	10.7%
55	East Side	10.5%
56	West Ridge	10.4%
57	Uptown	10.0%
58	McKinley Park	9.9%
59	Near South Side	9.7%
60	Clearing	9.6%
61	Edgewater	9.6%
62	Near North Side	9.3%
63	Irving Park	9.1%
64	Washington Park	9.0%
65	Mount Greenwood	8.7%
66	Avondale	8.3%
67	Hyde Park	8.1%
68	North Park	8.0%
69	Lincoln Park	7.2%
70	Lincoln Square	7.0%
71	West Town	6.7%
72	North Center	6.4%
73	Bridgeport	6.1%
74	Lake View	5.9%
75	Logan Square	5.9%
76	Forest Glen	5.3%
77	Beverly	4.0%

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.