County-level data on the percentage of households without any computing device.
Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimate (2023)
Tools: R for data processing and visualization, Scribus for document layout
skwyckl on
I guess the two greatest correlates are economic status and age? I suppose religion plays a role, too, sometimes (Amish, Mennonites).
RussianGasoline44 on
Why texas? I wouldnt expect a coastal county to be this high
Alive-Song3042 on
Neat! I am guessing the extremes here are usually counties with small populations? So you’ll naturally get a lot more variation. Where there any counties with large populations with very high or low percentage of households with computing devices?
kalam4z00 on
Basically a rural poverty map
At a glance the most populous county outside of the lowest category looks to be Wayne, OH (pop. 117k) which I’m assuming is Amish-related?
pspr33 on
Is there such a dataset for the UK?
criticalalpha on
Small population, very rural counties may have few households within reach of a cell tower or cable/fiber access, so that makes sense. Starlink could change this a bit as it offers cheaper plans (this was 2023 data).
The other issue with small population counties is that it only takes a few households to skew the numbers, so there is that, tool.
FlyEaglesFlyauggie on
Kenedy County, the third least populous county in Texas, had 108 times more cattle than people in 1999 – Wikipedia
CMDR_Tauri on
As an IT guy, I don’t know whether I should feel sad for those folks or be jealous of them.
Wild_Pain_6766 on
As a Pennsylvania resident I expected higher numbers
![The Digitally Detached: households with no computer, tablet, or smartphone [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/m44hksrk9p7f1-1536x1086.png "The Digitally Detached: households with no computer, tablet, or smartphone [OC]")
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County-level data on the percentage of households without any computing device.
Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimate (2023)
Tools: R for data processing and visualization, Scribus for document layout
I guess the two greatest correlates are economic status and age? I suppose religion plays a role, too, sometimes (Amish, Mennonites).
Why texas? I wouldnt expect a coastal county to be this high
Neat! I am guessing the extremes here are usually counties with small populations? So you’ll naturally get a lot more variation. Where there any counties with large populations with very high or low percentage of households with computing devices?
Basically a rural poverty map
At a glance the most populous county outside of the lowest category looks to be Wayne, OH (pop. 117k) which I’m assuming is Amish-related?
Is there such a dataset for the UK?
Small population, very rural counties may have few households within reach of a cell tower or cable/fiber access, so that makes sense. Starlink could change this a bit as it offers cheaper plans (this was 2023 data).
The other issue with small population counties is that it only takes a few households to skew the numbers, so there is that, tool.
Kenedy County, the third least populous county in Texas, had 108 times more cattle than people in 1999 – Wikipedia
As an IT guy, I don’t know whether I should feel sad for those folks or be jealous of them.
As a Pennsylvania resident I expected higher numbers