Northern Nevada internet data
This section holds ten datasets built from public sources: Census Bureau figures on how homes get online, FCC provider reports from 2021 and ZIP business counts. Each page shows the table, reads it in words and offers a CSV download.
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We publish the numbers because they help anyone deciding where and how to get online, whether or not they use our service. Every table says where it came from and when.
What are the ten datasets?
The county pages show, for each county, how many households have an internet subscription, how many rely on a cellular plan alone, how many use satellite and how many have no internet at all. See Washoe, Lyon, Storey, Churchill, Carson City and Douglas.
The regional tables rank places so you can see patterns: satellite reliance, homes without internet and working from home. The last table, the FCC Form 477 providers table, lists who reported service in each county as of June 2021. High Desert Internet does not appear in it under its own name, so it describes the other options and says nothing about our footprint.
There is also a state project list for the federal rural broadband program: High Speed NV and BEAD projects, marked provisional.
How should I cite the data?
Cite the source named on each page, such as U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B28002, and link to the page you used. The CSV downloads are the tables exactly as built, so you can check our work. Small places carry wide margins of error, which is why we say about and avoid ranking two small places against each other.
What do the numbers not tell you?
The Census survey has no line for fixed wireless, so homes using it sit under other headings. The FCC 2021 table is a dated snapshot. Neither one says whether a given address can be served. For that, use the address check or the FCC's National Broadband Map at https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov.
Internet access in Washoe County, by the numbers
Of 199,296 Washoe County households, 91.3 percent report an internet subscription, 7.4 percent report satellite and 5.6 percent, about 11,208 households, report none (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B2800
Read moreInternet access in Lyon County, by the numbers
Lyon is the county where satellite shows up most outside Storey: 12.0 percent of 23,745 households, 2,846 of them, report a satellite subscription, and another 14.8 percent rely on a phone data plan alone (U.S. Census Bu
Read moreInternet access in Storey County, by the numbers
Storey County has 1,892 households and the highest satellite share of the six counties we work in, 22.5 percent or 426 households (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B28002). The table is short because the c
Read moreInternet access in Churchill County, by the numbers
Churchill County has the highest no-subscription share of the six counties we work in: 8.6 percent of 9,516 households, or 823 of them, report no internet subscription of any kind (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-yea
Read moreInternet access in Carson City, by the numbers
Carson City is both a city and a county, so one set of Census figures covers both: 23,692 households, 77.8 percent on a cable, fiber or DSL subscription, 11.0 percent on a phone data plan only, 6.0 percent on satellite a
Read moreInternet access in Douglas County, by the numbers
Douglas County has the highest wired share of the six counties, 81.3 percent of 21,325 households on cable, fiber or DSL, and one of the oldest populations, with 32.7 percent aged 65 or over (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020
Read moreSatellite reliance in rural Northern Nevada, by town and ZIP
Across the 35 ZIP codes in our six counties, 21,340 households report a satellite internet subscription, and the share runs from 3.8 percent in Reno's 89503 to 26.3 percent in Silver Springs' 89429 (U.S. Census
Read moreHomes with no internet subscription, by ZIP
In the 35 ZIP codes of our six counties, 15,439 of 272,462 households, 5.7 percent, report no internet subscription of any kind, and the share runs from 0.9 percent in Sparks' 89436 to 17.3 percent in Wadsworth'
Read moreWorking from home in Northern Nevada, by town
Storey County has the highest share of workers who work from home among our six counties, 17.5 percent, followed by Douglas at 12.7 percent and Washoe at 12.6 percent, against 11.9 percent for Nevada and 15.1 percent for
Read moreWho reported broadband service in each county in 2021 (FCC Form 477)
The FCC's last Form 477 release, June 2021, listed 15 to 26 provider and technology lines for each of our six counties, from 12 to 20 companies (FCC Form 477, June 2021, historical). High Desert Internet Services do
Read moreHigh Speed NV (BEAD) projects in the six counties
In the six counties High Desert Internet works in, Nevada's BEAD plan lists 61 projects with 7,537 locations and about 67.3 million dollars in BEAD support (Nevada OSIT BEAD Final Proposal data, read 10/15/26). Ever
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