The National Digital Inclusion Alliance released two new rankings of America's "25 Worst-Connected Cities in 2014" -- for all households, and for households with annual incomes below $35,000. Using data from the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) released last Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, NDIA ranked all 184 U.S. cities with more than 50,000 households by their percentages of households with no Internet at home. The ACS provides this data in Tables B28002 ("Presence and types of Internet subscriptions in household") and B28004 (Household income in the last 12 months... by presence and types of Internet subscriptions in household").

1.
Top 25 Worst
Connected U.S. Cities
For Poor Households
2014 American
Community Survey
www.digitalinclusionalliance.org/
U.S. Places with more then
50,000 households
Households
with
incomes
below
$35,000
No Internet access
Number Percent Rank
Brownsville, TX 26,363 17,797 67.5% 1
Laredo, TX 30,305 19,722 65.1% 2
Detroit, MI 155,264 97,411 62.7% 3
New Orleans, LA 75,665 46,547 61.5% 4
Memphis, TN 126,057 75,062 59.5% 5
Washington DC 81,862 46,860 57.2% 6
Jackson, MS 31,941 18,190 56.9% 7
Buffalo, NY 58,334 32,523 55.8% 8
Kansas City, KS 27,136 15,101 55.6% 9
El Paso, TX 93,641 51,897 55.4% 10
Glendale, AZ 30,290 16,776 55.4% 11
Macon-Bibb Co, GA 27,716 15,319 55.3% 12
Miami, FL 82,950 45,313 54.6% 13
Greensboro, NC 46,502 25,380 54.6% 14
Birmingham, AL 49,490 26,977 54.5% 15
Toledo, OH 59,958 32,470 54.2% 16
Dallas, TX 198,851 107,297 54.0% 17
Louisville/Jefferson Co, KY 94,808 50,975 53.8% 18
Hialeah, FL 38,426 20,516 53.4% 19
Cleveland, OH 103,318 54,883 53.1% 20
Springfield, MA 28,747 15,186 52.8% 21
Grand Prairie, TX 17,575 9,258 52.7% 22
St. Louis, MO 67,513 35,296 52.3% 23
Chicago city, IL 396,634 206,400 52.0% 24
Chattanooga, TN 29,398 15,257 51.9% 25