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Official Statistics
Rural broadband statistics
- From:
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Part of:
- Rural living - statistical indicators and Rural economy and community
- Published:
- 25 May 2011
- Last updated:
- 21 July 2016, see all updates
- Applies to:
- England
Average broadband speeds in rural and urban areas.
Documents
Rural broadband 2014 (Revision published May 2016)
PDF, 380KB, 3 pages
Rural broadband 2014 (Original published April 2015)
PDF, 269KB, 2 pages
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Details
Metadata
Indicators:
- average broadband speeds
Data source: OFCOM postcode level data on average speeds
Coverage: England
Rural classification used: Office for National Statistics Rural Urban Classification
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Document information
Published: 25 May 2011
Updated: 21 July 2016
- We’ve changed how we’ve organised rural statistics and updated the content following Lord Cameron’s review of rural proofing.
- The 2014 Broadband speed data have been reissued as a result of a minor revision to the analysis. The average speed results were unaffected in all cases except for rural town and fringe in a sparse setting and rural villages, where the average speeds increased by 1Mbit/s compared with the previously reported figures.
- The latest rural broadband average speeds have been published.
- OFCOM average broadband speeds in 2012 by rural urban definition.
- First published.