Sherburne County

Table of goal data by year

Year	Rank	100/20 Mbps
2024	#24 of 87	95%
2023	#33 of 87	87.19%
2022	#40 of 87	82.82%
2021	#23 of 87	90.69%
2020	#50 of 87	73.66%
2019	#50 of 87	72.36%
2018	#36 of 87	67.11%
2017	#67 of 87	28.02%

Red dots represent unserved locations.

Wired (wireline) and wireless (fixed, non-mobile) served location percentage at various speeds.

Sherburne County: Great Improvement

Sherburne County ranks 24 (up 9 places) for broadband access out of 87 counties. They have had incremental growth (aside from 2022 when they actually slipped) for man years. The growth this year was a little better than usual.

They don’t have any line exchange or MN state grants they can look forward to spending but they have a history of concerted effort, which means they can do it again when BEAD funding becomes available.

• Over the years, Sherburne County (or cities within) has invested $899,457 (total) for matches for 3 successful MN Broadband grants. This is an indicator of local government that is engaged and (literally) invested in better, local broadband.
• Sherburne County will not benefit from a 2024 MN Broadband.
• Sherburne County will not benefit from any line extension awards.
• Last years’ estimates indicated that it would cost $66.5 million to get ubiquitous broadband in the county. (I haven’t updated the number because recent report offers scenarios of costs based on BEAD funding rules that make current estimates less predictable than in the past. Yet, I think the number is still helpful.)
• In 2022, Sherburne ranked 8 using Microsoft’s Digital Equity Tool, which looks at various factors of a community.
• Sherburne County has worked with the Blandin Foundation. They seemed to renew an interest in broadband post-pandemic.