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With limited local, state, and federal funding dedicated to connectivity, investing in communities where broadband can have the most significant impact or make the most considerable strides in opening more digital opportunities is critical.

To help decision makers determine how much the expansion of broadband access supports economic prosperity in communities across the United States, US Ignite created the National Broadband Impact Tool. This interactive tool provides:

• State and community leaders an end-to-end solution to make data-driven decisions on their broadband investments.
• Promotion of economic innovation while supporting broadband equity and inclusion in their communities.
• Decision-makers detail on current broadband disparities and how future broadband expansion will drive social and economic benefits.
• An easy-to-understand data analysis that uses a range of approaches, such as clustering and supervised machine learning.

Leverage the National Socioeconomic Impact Broadband Tool to prioritize funding distribution, track progress, and ensure that your broadband investment provides your community with the best return possible.

Things to know before exploring

Broadband Score– This score represents the number of residential fixed Internet access service connections per 1,000 households based on Form 477 broadband subscribership data. This includes data on connections by census tract for both service over 200 kbps in at least one direction and service of at least 10 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up.

• 1 means the number of connections per 1000 households is >0 and <=200
• 2 means that the number of connections per 1000 households is >200 and <=400
• 3 means that the number of connections per 1000 households is >400 and<=600
• 4 means that the number of connections per 1000 households is >600 and<=800
• 5 means that the number of connections per 1000 households is >800

Socioeconomic Score–Each analyzed socioeconomic factor is assigned a score on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 represents the lowest level of advancement and 5 indicates the highest level of advancement.

If you are interested in learning more about the mechanics of the dashboard or in securing a similar tool for your community, please contact us at: [email protected]