Internet in Evansville, Indiana
Fiber is available at 63.6% of the 44,339 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Evansville, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 95.6%. 62.6% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 33.1% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Evansville in Indiana
In 2022 almost every address in Evansville had two or more wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps. By June 30, 2026 that share was 62.6%, a change that ranks the lowest among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, and Spectrum is now the only fast wire at 32.5%1 of homes and businesses. AT&T fiber covers most of the rest.
Spectrum cable and AT&T fiber
The FCC National Broadband Map counts 44,339 homes and businesses inside Evansville's city limits as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026). Two companies carry nearly all of the city's wired service. Spectrum reports service at 95.0% of them, over cable except for fiber at 0.4%, and advertises up to 1 Gbps. AT&T reports service at 94.3%: fiber at 63.1%, with up to 5 Gbps1 advertised, and DSL over copper phone lines or fixed wireless at most of the remainder.
| Spectrum | Fiber Cable | 95.0% | 95.0% | 1 Gbps | 32.5% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | Fiber DSL Licensed wireless | 94.3% | 68.5% | 5 Gbps | 0.6% |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 76.3% | 22.2% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 75.4% | 41.2% | 300 Mbps | – |
| W A T C H TV | Fiber Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 17.0% | 1.6% | 1 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Mainstream Fiber Networks LLC | Fiber | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 Gbps | – |
| Xiber LLC | Fixed wireless | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10 Gbps | – |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Share of the area's broadband serviceable locations where the provider reports service as of June 30, 2026. "Only wired option" is the share of locations where it is the single wired provider at 100/20 Mbps. Provider-reported and challengeable; speeds are advertised maximums, not measured; no prices. Satellite providers (HughesNet, Starlink, Viasat) report service at nearly every location and are left out of the table.
A provider counts as available when it tells the FCC it could install service within ten business days, and the claim can be challenged on the FCC map. Speeds are each provider's maximum advertised speed, not a measurement. HughesNet, Starlink and Viasat report satellite service at every location; the counts below leave them out. Satellite is the only option at 4 locations, a share that is tied for the lowest1 among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more.
Fiber reaches about two in three locations
Fiber from at least one provider is reported at 63.6% of Evansville's locations. That is a little above the national share, 62.6%, and close to Indiana's 70.6%. Vanderburgh County as a whole, which includes the city, has more: fiber reaches 71.9%1 of its locations.
The fiber is almost entirely one network. 4 companies report fiber somewhere in the city, but after AT&T the next largest fiber footprints are Spectrum's 0.4% and W A T C H TV's 0.4%. Two or more fiber providers at the same location are reported at 0.4%1, down from 14.2%2 in June 2022.
The city's fiber share itself slipped, from 66.3%2 in 2022 to 63.6%. A fall of 2.7 percentage points is small, but as a change it ranks 3rd lowest1 among the 343 large cities.
From three wires to one or two
This is where Evansville differs from almost every other large city. In the first National Broadband Map, with data as of June 30, 2022, 94.4% of the city's locations had two or more wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps, and 61.0%2 had three or more. Most addresses, in other words, could choose among three fast wired networks.
By June 2026 three-way choice was reported at 0.3% of locations. Two or more wired choices fell to 62.6%, a change of −31.9 percentage points that is the lowest among the 343 cities. Over the same period the share rose from 38.6% to 60.0% across Indiana and from 36.7% to 55.6% nationally. The number of companies offering wired 100/20 Mbps anywhere in the city went from 52 to 41.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Different wired providers (fiber, cable or DSL; FCC provider IDs) reporting 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up or more at the same location. Fixed wireless and satellite are not counted.
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| Area | None | One | Two | Three or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville | 4.4% | 33.1% | 62.3% | 0.3% |
| Indiana | 7.6% | 32.4% | 46.0% | 14.0% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
The locations that lost a choice are mostly those without AT&T fiber. Exactly one wired provider at 100/20 Mbps was reported at 4.9%2 of locations in 2022 and at 33.1% in 2026, and that one provider is nearly always Spectrum: it is the only fast wire at 32.5% of locations, AT&T at 0.6%1. Most of the change happened before December 2025; the last two releases differ by less than a percentage point. The FCC filings record what each provider reports, not why a network stopped reporting.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Shares of broadband serviceable locations in each FCC release (latest revision of each); the small number is the change in percentage points since June 30, 2022. The FCC's count of locations is updated with each release, so shares are compared rather than counts.
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| Measure | June 30, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two or more wired choices | 94.4% | 62.3% | 62.6% | −31.9 pts |
| Three or more wired choices | 61.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | −60.7 pts |
| One wired choice | 4.9% | 33.0% | 33.1% | 28.2 pts |
| Two or more fiber networks | 14.2% | 0.4% | 0.4% | −13.8 pts |
Very few locations have no fast service at all. 1,937 locations have no wired provider at 100/20 Mbps, and 251 are unserved by the FCC's definition (no wired or licensed fixed wireless service at 25/3 Mbps).
Evansville beside other Indiana cities
Among Indiana's six cities of 100,000 or more, Evansville has the lowest share of locations with two or more fast wired providers, 62.6%, against South Bend (72.8%), Indianapolis (77.4%), Fort Wayne (88.1%), Carmel (90.2%) and Fishers (92.9%). On fiber the order is the same: at 63.6%, Evansville has the smallest share of the six. The state as a whole, 60.0%1 on wired choice, is below the city.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
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| Area | Two or more wired choices |
|---|---|
| Fishers | 92.9% |
| Carmel | 90.2% |
| Fort Wayne | 88.1% |
| Indianapolis | 77.4% |
| South Bend | 72.8% |
| Evansville | 62.6% |
| Indiana | 60.0% |
| United States | 55.6% |
| Area | Fiber available | One wired choice | Gigabit (1,000/100) | Wired providers at 100/20 Mbps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville, Indiana | 63.6% | 33.1% | 63.6% | 4 |
| Indianapolis, Indiana | 74.8% | 21.9% | 86.4% | 10 |
| Fort Wayne, Indiana | 88.8% | 11.6% | 91.2% | 6 |
| Carmel, Indiana | 89.3% | 9.4% | 89.9% | 5 |
| Fishers, Indiana | 92.5% | 7.0% | 99.7% | 8 |
| South Bend, Indiana | 69.1% | 26.7% | 79.1% | 4 |
| Indiana | 70.6% | 32.4% | 80.1% | 71 |
| United States | 62.6% | 36.6% | 72.3% | 1,510 |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
The Indiana page maps every county, and the Fort Wayne page covers a city where two wires, one of them fiber, reach almost every address.
Wireless home internet grew as copper shrank
The newer competition in Evansville is wireless. Verizon, which reported fixed wireless at only a small number of locations in June 2022, reported it at 33,414 in June 2026 (75.4%) and offers 100/20 Mbps at 41.2%. T-Mobile reports service at 76.3% of locations but 100/20 at only 22.2%. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps or more is reported at 54.2%1 of locations, up from 25.4%2 in 2022.
W A T C H TV reports service at 17.0% of the city, mostly unlicensed fixed wireless at slower speeds; it offers 100/20 Mbps at 1.6%. DSL, meanwhile, fell from 41.6%2 of locations to 32.8%1.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Share of broadband serviceable locations where at least one provider reports the technology, at any speed; a location can have several. Satellite is reported almost everywhere and is left out.
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| Technology | Evansville | Indiana |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 63.6% | 70.6% |
| Cable | 95.0% | 78.0% |
| DSL (copper) | 32.8% | 36.1% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 92.8% | 90.8% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 15.4% | 27.6% |
None of these wireless services replaces the lost wired choice one for one. Fixed wireless capacity is shared by everyone on a tower sector, and the carriers decide address by address whether to accept a new customer.
Gigabit downloads everywhere, gigabit uploads only on fiber
A 1 Gbps download is advertised at 95.6% of locations, because Spectrum's cable network reaches almost the whole city. The fastest advertised download is 2 Gbps or more at 54.2%, up from 30.2%2 in 2022. Spectrum advertises up to 1 Gbps1, so the multi-gigabit tiers come almost entirely from fiber.
Uploads tell a different story. Gigabit service with uploads of 100 Mbps or more, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, is advertised at 63.6%, exactly the fiber footprint. In December 2025 that tier still reached 66.0%3, some of it outside the fiber area; the fall of 2.5 percentage points in six months ranks tied for 39th lowest1 among large cities. All of these are advertised maximums.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Maximum advertised download speed (Mbps) of any wired or fixed wireless offer at the location, as reported by providers to the FCC; satellite excluded. Advertised, not measured.
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| Area | Under 25 Mbps or none | 25–99 | 100–249 | 250–499 | 500–939 | 940–1,999 | 2,000 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville | 1.1% | 1.0% | 2.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 41.5% | 54.2% |
| Indiana | 1.5% | 1.8% | 1.9% | 1.6% | 0.7% | 30.4% | 62.1% |
| United States | 2.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 31.0% | 61.0% |
Fewer offline households, many on phones only
The Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey counts households, not locations. 91.6% of Evansville households had a broadband subscription of any type (margin of error ±2.5 percentage points), up from 84.9% in 2019 (±2.5 percentage points); the households with no internet subscription fell from 15.1%5 to 8.4% (±2.5 percentage points4). Both changes are larger than the survey's error.
72.5% subscribed to cable, fiber or DSL (±4.2 percentage points). 19.0% had a smartphone but no desktop, laptop or tablet (±3.2 percentage points), a share that ranks tied for 8th highest among large cities by point estimate, and 14.6%4 relied only on a cellular data plan.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables. Availability is a share of locations as of June 30, 2026 (FCC); subscriptions are a share of households from the American Community Survey, 2025 (whiskers: 90% margin of error). Different units and dates: read the gap as a sign, not an exact number.
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| Measure | Share | MOE |
|---|---|---|
| Wired 100/20 Mbps available (FCC, share of locations) | 95.6% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 72.5% | ±4.2 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 14.6% | ±2.9 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 8.4% | ±2.5 |
Evansville internet questions
What internet providers are available in Evansville?
Spectrum reports service at 95.0% of locations, almost all of it cable. AT&T reports 94.3%, a mix of fiber, DSL and fixed wireless. T-Mobile (76.3%) and Verizon (75.4%) report 5G or LTE home internet, and W A T C H TV reports mostly wireless service at 17.0%1. These are FCC figures as of June 30, 2026; the FCC map lists what is reported at one address.
Is fiber internet available in Evansville?
At 63.6% of homes and businesses as of June 30, 2026, nearly all of it AT&T's. That is a little above the US share (62.6%), close to Indiana's (70.6%) and below Vanderburgh County as a whole (71.9%1). In June 2022 the city's share was 66.3%2.
How many internet providers are in Evansville?
7 companies report fixed (non-satellite) service somewhere in the city, 4 of them over wires, but only 4 report wired service at 100/20 Mbps, down from 52 in 2022. At a single address the answer is usually two (Spectrum and AT&T fiber, at 62.3% of locations) or one (Spectrum alone, at 32.5%1).
Can I get 5G home internet in Evansville?
Verizon reports fixed wireless at 75.4% of locations and offers 100/20 Mbps at 41.2%; T-Mobile reports 76.3%, with 100/20 at 22.2%1. Both accept sign-ups address by address, because a tower's capacity is shared.
Checking one address in Evansville
The figures on this page describe the whole area. Which providers report service at a single home or apartment is shown only on the FCC's own map: search the address at broadbandmap.fcc.gov. If a provider is listed there but cannot actually connect you within ten business days, or the location is missing or misplaced, the map has a button to file a challenge; providers must respond, and corrections flow into later releases. Prices and plans are not part of the FCC data: each provider must show them on its broadband facts label at the point of sale.
More on internet in Indiana
The state picture, county by county: internet in Indiana. Other large cities in the state: Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Carmel, Fishers and South Bend. Compare Evansville with any other city or state in the comparison tool.
Sources
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Availability as of June 30, 2026; released November 10, 2026. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; Availability as of June 30, 2022; released May 10, 2024. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; Availability as of December 31, 2025; released November 3, 2026. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables; 2025 (calendar-year sample); released October 29, 2026. api.census.gov
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 1-year detailed tables; 2019. api.census.gov
Margins of error (±) are at the 90% confidence level. A difference is called significant only when it passes the Census Bureau's test at that level. How every figure is built: methodology. Found an error? Write to [email protected]; corrections are listed on the updates page.