{
    "question": "What percentage of Americans use the internet and have broadband?",
    "answer": "97% of US adults say they use the internet, according to Pew Research Center's National Public Opinion Reference Survey of 5,511 adults (30 January to 18 June 2026). 78% subscribe to home broadband and 16% are smartphone-only. Use is near universal under 65; among adults 65 and older it is 89%.",
    "period": "Jan-Jun 2026",
    "key_numbers": [
        {
            "value": "97%",
            "label": "US adults who use the internet",
            "note": "Pew Research Center, Jan-Jun 2026",
            "stat": "social-media/us-adults-use-internet"
        },
        {
            "value": "78%",
            "label": "US adults who subscribe to broadband at home",
            "note": "Pew, Jan-Jun 2026",
            "stat": "social-media/us-adults-home-broadband"
        },
        {
            "value": "16%",
            "label": "US adults who are smartphone-only: a smartphone but no home broadband",
            "note": "Pew, Jan-Jun 2026",
            "stat": "social-media/us-adults-smartphone-only"
        },
        {
            "value": "89%",
            "label": "US adults 65 and older who use the internet, the lowest age group",
            "note": "Pew, Jan-Jun 2026"
        },
        {
            "value": "97%",
            "label": "US teens 13 to 17 who use the internet daily",
            "note": "Pew, Sep-Oct 2025",
            "stat": "social-media/teens-use-internet-daily"
        },
        {
            "value": "94.7%",
            "label": "Individuals in the US who used the internet in the last three months",
            "note": "ITU DataHub, 2024"
        }
    ],
    "tables": [
        {
            "id": "headline",
            "title": "Internet, broadband and smartphone-only use in the US",
            "columns": [
                "Measure",
                "Share",
                "Period"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "US adults who use the internet",
                    "97%",
                    "Jan-Jun 2026"
                ],
                [
                    "US adults who subscribe to home broadband",
                    "78%",
                    "Jan-Jun 2026"
                ],
                [
                    "US adults who are smartphone-only (smartphone, no home broadband)",
                    "16%",
                    "Jan-Jun 2026"
                ],
                [
                    "US teens 13 to 17 who use the internet daily",
                    "97%",
                    "Sep-Oct 2025"
                ],
                [
                    "US teens 13 to 17 who are online almost constantly",
                    "Four-in-ten",
                    "Sep-Oct 2025"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "adults-internet",
                "adults-broadband",
                "adults-smartphone-only",
                "teens-daily",
                "teens-constantly"
            ],
            "note": "Adults: Pew Internet, Broadband Fact Sheet (19 Oct 2026). The ITU figure for the US (94.7% of individuals online in the last three months, 2024) is from the ITU DataHub, indicator Individuals using the Internet. Teens: Pew report Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025 (9 Dec 2025), 1,458 teens; Pew gives the almost-constant share in words.",
            "source": "pew"
        },
        {
            "id": "by-group",
            "title": "US adults online, with home broadband and smartphone-only, by group (2026)",
            "columns": [
                "Group",
                "Use the internet",
                "Home broadband",
                "Smartphone-only"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "Ages 18-29",
                    "99%",
                    "74%",
                    "24%"
                ],
                [
                    "Ages 30-49",
                    "99%",
                    "83%",
                    "14%"
                ],
                [
                    "Ages 50-64",
                    "98%",
                    "83%",
                    "12%"
                ],
                [
                    "Ages 65+",
                    "89%",
                    "71%",
                    "16%"
                ],
                [
                    "White",
                    "97%",
                    "82%",
                    "13%"
                ],
                [
                    "Hispanic",
                    "96%",
                    "70%",
                    "23%"
                ],
                [
                    "Black",
                    "93%",
                    "72%",
                    "19%"
                ],
                [
                    "Asian (English speakers)",
                    "98%",
                    "81%",
                    "16%"
                ],
                [
                    "Men",
                    "96%",
                    "79%",
                    "15%"
                ],
                [
                    "Women",
                    "97%",
                    "78%",
                    "17%"
                ],
                [
                    "Household income under $30,000",
                    "91%",
                    "57%",
                    "29%"
                ],
                [
                    "$30,000 to $69,999",
                    "97%",
                    "77%",
                    "18%"
                ],
                [
                    "$70,000 to $99,999",
                    "99%",
                    "86%",
                    "12%"
                ],
                [
                    "$100,000 or more",
                    "99%",
                    "92%",
                    "7%"
                ],
                [
                    "High school or less",
                    "93%",
                    "65%",
                    "23%"
                ],
                [
                    "Some college",
                    "98%",
                    "82%",
                    "15%"
                ],
                [
                    "College graduate",
                    "99%",
                    "89%",
                    "9%"
                ],
                [
                    "Urban",
                    "97%",
                    "75%",
                    "20%"
                ],
                [
                    "Suburban",
                    "97%",
                    "84%",
                    "11%"
                ],
                [
                    "Rural",
                    "95%",
                    "72%",
                    "20%"
                ],
                [
                    "All US adults",
                    "97%",
                    "78%",
                    "16%"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "group-18-29",
                "group-30-49",
                "group-50-64",
                "group-65-plus",
                "group-white",
                "group-hispanic",
                "group-black",
                "group-asian",
                "group-men",
                "group-women",
                "income-under-30k",
                "income-30k-70k",
                "income-70k-100k",
                "income-100k-plus",
                "edu-hs-or-less",
                "edu-some-college",
                "edu-college",
                "place-urban",
                "place-suburban",
                "place-rural",
                "group-all"
            ],
            "note": "National Public Opinion Reference Survey, 30 Jan to 18 Jun 2026, 5,511 adults online, by mail or by phone; margin of error plus or minus 1.8 points overall, larger for groups.",
            "source": "pew"
        },
        {
            "id": "broadband-history",
            "title": "US adults with home broadband and smartphone-only users, selected surveys",
            "columns": [
                "Survey",
                "Home broadband",
                "Smartphone-only"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "Mar 2000",
                    "1%",
                    "Not measured"
                ],
                [
                    "Dec 2010",
                    "62%",
                    "Not measured"
                ],
                [
                    "Sep 2013",
                    "70%",
                    "8%"
                ],
                [
                    "Nov 2016",
                    "73%",
                    "12%"
                ],
                [
                    "Feb 2019",
                    "73%",
                    "17%"
                ],
                [
                    "Feb 2021",
                    "77%",
                    "15%"
                ],
                [
                    "Sep 2023",
                    "80%",
                    "15%"
                ],
                [
                    "Jun 2024",
                    "79%",
                    "15%"
                ],
                [
                    "Jun 2025",
                    "78%",
                    "16%"
                ],
                [
                    "Jan-Jun 2026",
                    "78%",
                    "16%"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "broadband-2000",
                "broadband-2010",
                "broadband-2013",
                "broadband-2016",
                "broadband-2019",
                "broadband-2021",
                "broadband-2023",
                "broadband-2024",
                "broadband-2025",
                "broadband-2026"
            ],
            "note": "Broadband by Pew's survey end date; smartphone-only by survey year (Pew gives it from 2013). Pew changed how people could answer in 2023 (web and mail) and 2024 (web, mail and phone), so compare across those years with care.",
            "source": "pew"
        },
        {
            "id": "history",
            "title": "US adults who use the internet, every Pew survey year since 2000",
            "columns": [
                "Year",
                "All US adults",
                "Ages 18-29",
                "Ages 65+"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "2000",
                    "52%",
                    "70%",
                    "14%"
                ],
                [
                    "2001",
                    "55%",
                    "72%",
                    "14%"
                ],
                [
                    "2002",
                    "59%",
                    "76%",
                    "18%"
                ],
                [
                    "2003",
                    "61%",
                    "78%",
                    "22%"
                ],
                [
                    "2004",
                    "63%",
                    "77%",
                    "24%"
                ],
                [
                    "2005",
                    "68%",
                    "83%",
                    "28%"
                ],
                [
                    "2006",
                    "71%",
                    "86%",
                    "32%"
                ],
                [
                    "2007",
                    "74%",
                    "89%",
                    "35%"
                ],
                [
                    "2008",
                    "74%",
                    "89%",
                    "38%"
                ],
                [
                    "2009",
                    "76%",
                    "92%",
                    "40%"
                ],
                [
                    "2010",
                    "76%",
                    "92%",
                    "43%"
                ],
                [
                    "2011",
                    "79%",
                    "94%",
                    "46%"
                ],
                [
                    "2012",
                    "83%",
                    "96%",
                    "54%"
                ],
                [
                    "2013",
                    "84%",
                    "97%",
                    "56%"
                ],
                [
                    "2014",
                    "84%",
                    "97%",
                    "57%"
                ],
                [
                    "2015",
                    "86%",
                    "97%",
                    "63%"
                ],
                [
                    "2016",
                    "88%",
                    "99%",
                    "64%"
                ],
                [
                    "2018",
                    "89%",
                    "98%",
                    "66%"
                ],
                [
                    "2019",
                    "90%",
                    "100%",
                    "73%"
                ],
                [
                    "2021",
                    "93%",
                    "99%",
                    "75%"
                ],
                [
                    "2023",
                    "95%",
                    "97%",
                    "88%"
                ],
                [
                    "2024",
                    "96%",
                    "99%",
                    "90%"
                ],
                [
                    "2025",
                    "96%",
                    "99%",
                    "90%"
                ],
                [
                    "2026",
                    "97%",
                    "99%",
                    "89%"
                ]
            ],
            "note": "Phone surveys from 2000 to 2021; web and mail in 2023; web, mail and phone from 2024. Each year pools all Pew surveys that year. No figures for 2017, 2020 and 2022.",
            "source": "pew"
        }
    ],
    "sources": [
        {
            "name": "Pew Research Center",
            "publisher": "Pew Research Center",
            "type": "survey",
            "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Facts and Figures",
            "publisher": "International Telecommunication Union (ITU)",
            "type": "official",
            "url": "https://www.itu.int/"
        }
    ],
    "content_changed_on": "2026-10-31",
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/social-media/internet-use-us",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/social-media/internet-use-us.csv"
}