Watonwan County

Table of goal data by year

Year	100/20 Mbps	1 Gbps
2025	#82 – 71.32%	#76 – 25.72%
2024	#75 – 71.69%
2023	#73 – 70.03%
2022	#65 – 71.06%
2021	#64 – 69.25%
2020	#61 – 68.5%
2019	#58 – 67.75%
2018	#34 – 68.42%
2017	#31 – 64.58%

Red dots represent unserved locations.

Watonwan County: hovering around 70 percent

Watonwan County’s broadband coverage has been stagnant for several years. They aren’t in line to get much funding from BEAD. They retain Red status

At the time of writing, the MN BEAD final proposal has not been approved, but the current proposal would mean coverage for 1,1 locations in Anoka County. Some of the locations will get fiber and the rest will get 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. (Watonwan has not benefitted from earlier Line Extension awards. So that seems like a strategy worth considering.)

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