Anoka County

Table of goal data by year

Year	100/20 Mbps	1 Gbps
2025	#18 – 97.82%	#74 – 27.76%
2024	#19 – 97.34%
2023	#11 – 98.93%
2022	#15 – 96.64%
2021	#12 – 97.41%
2020	#9 – 97.14%
2019	#8 – 97.47%
2018	#5 – 97.86%
2017	#7 – 96.1%

Red dots represent unserved locations.

Anoka County Inching Closer

Anoka County has the advantage of being part of the 7-county metro area which doesn’t mean the county doesn’t have rural areas but proximity to urban areas helps build a market case to deployment.

At the time of writing, the MN BEAD final proposal has not been approved, but the current proposal would mean coverage for 1,437 locations in Anoka County. However, the majority of locations will get a satellite or fixed wireless connection, which does not qualify as served in the MN statute.

There is still Line Extension funding yet to be distributed, which helps connect handfuls of  houses just beyond existing infrastructure. (Anoka has benefitted from earlier Line Extension awards. So that seems hopeful for them as well.) There have been changes with local and national broadband providers, which also leads to uncertainty.

Anoka gets a green ranking because they are so close to goal. The population is fairly large, they just need to make sure that some locations don’t fall through the crack.