Rock County

Table of goal data by year

Year	100/20 Mbps	1 Gbps
2025	#4 – 99.91%	#61 – 43.18%
2024	#9 – 99.34%
2023	#1 – 100%
2022	#3 – 99.9%
2021	#1 – 99.93%
2020	#1 – 99.93%
2019	#1 – 99.93%
2018	#1 – 99.93%
2017	#28 – 66.32%

Red dots represent unserved locations.

Rock County: Nearly Perfect

Rock County’s broadband coverage is almost perfect. They had 100 percent coverage to broadband of 100 Mbps down and 20 up in 2023 but now the maps show 99.91 percent. It is a map correction, but they are still very close and retain the Green status.

At the time of writing, the MN BEAD final proposal has not been approved, but the current proposal would mean coverage for 48 locations in Rock County. However, those locations will get a satellite, 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. (Rock has not benefitted from earlier Line Extension awards. So that might be a strategy worth considering for the last few households.)

Statewide, there have been changes with local and national broadband providers, which also leads to uncertainty.