Hubbard County

Table of goal data by year

Year	Rank	100/20 Mbps
2024	#21 of 87	96.87%
2023	#22 of 87	93.63%
2022	#24 of 87	90.07%
2021	#21 of 87	91.71%
2020	#18 of 87	91.39%
2019	#46 of 87	74.21%
2018	#55 of 87	46.61%
2017	#48 of 87	46.43%

Red dots represent unserved locations.

Wired (wireline) and wireless (fixed, non-mobile) served location percentage at various speeds.

Hubbard County: Code From Going From Red to Yellow to Green in Three Years

Hubbard County ranks 21 (up one place) for broadband access out of 87 counties. Their growth has been incremental, but steady and they are now close enough to goal to merit a green rank.

• Over the years, Hubbard County (or cities within) has not invested to match any successful MN Broadband grants.
• Hubbard County will not benefit from a 2024 MN Broadband grant.
• Hubbard County will benefit from 28 line extension awards (Rounds 1 and 2), which extend broadband to individual locations.
• Last years’ estimates indicated that it would cost $8.2 million to get ubiquitous broadband in the county. (I haven’t updated the number because recent report offers scenarios of costs based on BEAD funding rules that make current estimates less predictable than in the past. Yet, I think the number is still helpful.)
• In 2022, Hubbard ranked 39 using Microsoft’s Digital Equity Tool, which looks at various factors of a community.
• In February 2023, Paul Bunyan Telephone was awarded $10 million in ReConnect funds for networks in Hubbard, Itasca, and St. Louis counties.