BEAD broadband funding by state

The 50 states and the District of Columbia received $40.96 billion in allocations from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, the federal grant program run by NTIA that pays for new networks where service is missing or slow. Texas received the most, $3.31 billion, then California ($1.86 billion), Missouri ($1.74 billion), Michigan ($1.56 billion) and North Carolina ($1.53 billion). The smallest allocations went to the District of Columbia ($100.7 million), Delaware ($107.7 million), Rhode Island ($108.7 million) and North Dakota ($130.2 million¹).

The full table below ranks the 50 states by a second number, what each final proposal spends per location; the allocation alone says little about what a state is building with it.

Four numbers, two sources

BEAD figures come in four kinds that are easy to confuse. On this page all four come from NTIA, in two releases with different dates.

• Allocation: the money assigned to each state, from NTIA's award recipient pages. NTIA announced the amounts on June 26, 2023.
• Locations: the homes, apartment buildings and small businesses a state's final proposal plans to connect. The FCC calls these broadband serviceable locations and counts each building once, so a location is not a household.
• BEAD deployment cost: the BEAD money the final proposal assigns to building those connections. Providers commit their own money on top, the match: $11.71 billion² across the 50 plans.
• Cost per location: the deployment cost divided by the locations. It is our calculation; NTIA prints a rounded average of its own.

The locations, costs and technology shares come from the one-page final proposal summaries NTIA publishes for each state, dated between November 2025 and April 2026. NTIA marks them as based on final proposal submissions and subject to change until final review and award. The District of Columbia has no such summary, so it has an allocation but no entry in the ranking.

Cost per location: North Dakota to South Carolina

The spread is wide. North Dakota's plan assigns $6,133,968 to 279 locations, the smallest plan of any state, at $21,986 each; 99.3% of them are to get fiber. Next come Alaska ($13,528), Oklahoma ($10,555), South Dakota ($10,312) and New Mexico ($8,956). At the other end, South Carolina spends $2,019 per location, Maine $2,149 and Georgia $2,543. The median state is at $4,755².

North Dakota$21,986

Alaska$13,528

Oklahoma$10,555

South Dakota$10,312

New Mexico$8,956

Maryland$8,092

West Virginia$7,466

Utah$6,866

Nevada$6,504

Virginia$6,409

Kansas$6,260

Vermont$6,069

Illinois$5,831

Oregon$5,617

Pennsylvania$5,499

Mississippi$5,450

New York$5,421

New Jersey$5,417

California$5,230

Texas$5,178

Wyoming$5,146

Minnesota$5,069

Massachusetts$4,946

Alabama$4,910

Iowa$4,844

Idaho$4,666

Michigan$4,630

Tennessee$4,602

Montana$4,434

Washington$4,421

Colorado$4,378

Hawaii$4,361

Kentucky$4,212

Connecticut$4,049

Rhode Island$4,030

Wisconsin$3,970

Indiana$3,934

Louisiana$3,924

Missouri$3,868

Arkansas$3,853

New Hampshire$3,627

North Carolina$3,411

Nebraska$3,168

Florida$3,106

Ohio$3,103

Delaware$2,852

Arizona$2,760

Georgia$2,543

Maine$2,149

South Carolina$2,019

Source: NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Final Proposal Overview one-page PDFs.

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State	BEAD cost per location
North Dakota	$21,986
Alaska	$13,528
Oklahoma	$10,555
South Dakota	$10,312
New Mexico	$8,956
Maryland	$8,092
West Virginia	$7,466
Utah	$6,866
Nevada	$6,504
Virginia	$6,409
Kansas	$6,260
Vermont	$6,069
Illinois	$5,831
Oregon	$5,617
Pennsylvania	$5,499
Mississippi	$5,450
New York	$5,421
New Jersey	$5,417
California	$5,230
Texas	$5,178
Wyoming	$5,146
Minnesota	$5,069
Massachusetts	$4,946
Alabama	$4,910
Iowa	$4,844
Idaho	$4,666
Michigan	$4,630
Tennessee	$4,602
Montana	$4,434
Washington	$4,421
Colorado	$4,378
Hawaii	$4,361
Kentucky	$4,212
Connecticut	$4,049
Rhode Island	$4,030
Wisconsin	$3,970
Indiana	$3,934
Louisiana	$3,924
Missouri	$3,868
Arkansas	$3,853
New Hampshire	$3,627
North Carolina	$3,411
Nebraska	$3,168
Florida	$3,106
Ohio	$3,103
Delaware	$2,852
Arizona	$2,760
Georgia	$2,543
Maine	$2,149
South Carolina	$2,019

A high fiber share does not by itself mean a high cost. Maine assigns 85.4% of its locations to fiber, the 4th highest share, and still has the 2nd lowest cost per location. West Virginia, with the 2nd highest fiber share (93.6%), spends $7,466 per location. South Carolina, at the bottom, puts 48.7%² of its locations on satellite. The NTIA summaries do not explain why one state's locations cost more than another's, and this page does not guess.

What each plan builds

Across the 50 plans, 2,368,238 locations are assigned to fiber, 829,696 to low-Earth-orbit satellite, 499,177² to fixed wireless and the rest to cable. State by state the mix ranges from almost all fiber to almost none.

• Fiber plans. North Dakota (99.3%), West Virginia (93.6%), Michigan (85.6%) and Maine (85.4%) assign the largest shares to fiber. Michigan's plan is also the 4th highest by locations, 197,964.
• Satellite plans. Montana puts 63.7% of its locations on low-Earth-orbit satellite, the most of any state, followed by Colorado (49.6%), South Carolina (48.7%) and Ohio (48.1%).
• Fixed wireless plans. Kansas assigns 67.5% of its locations to fixed wireless and Nebraska 56.9%. Nebraska's fiber share, 9.2%, is the lowest of any state.
• Cable upgrades. In a few eastern states a large part of the plan goes to cable networks: 48.6% of locations in Massachusetts, 35.6% in New Jersey and 32.2%² in Maryland.

0.0% to 8.7%9.5% to 14.4%14.4% to 25.1%25.1% to 33.9%33.9% to 63.7%None

Source: NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Final Proposal Overview one-page PDFs; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file cb_2025_us_state_20m. Darker states are higher; DC is the dot.

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State	BEAD locations assigned to low-Earth-orbit satellite
Montana	63.7%
Colorado	49.6%
South Carolina	48.7%
Ohio	48.1%
Oregon	46.5%
Wyoming	40.8%
South Dakota	38.3%
Massachusetts	34.8%
North Carolina	34.6%
Alaska	33.9%
Nebraska	33.9%
Nevada	28.2%
New York	28.1%
Texas	27.1%
California	27.0%
Utah	26.8%
Washington	26.6%
Idaho	26.4%
Florida	26.2%
Alabama	25.1%
Kentucky	25.1%
Minnesota	25.0%
Oklahoma	25.0%
Maryland	23.9%
Pennsylvania	23.1%
New Hampshire	21.5%
Hawaii	18.3%
Arkansas	16.2%
New Mexico	15.4%
Mississippi	14.4%
Vermont	14.4%
Maine	14.2%
Indiana	14.1%
Wisconsin	14.1%
Virginia	12.9%
Michigan	12.4%
Tennessee	11.7%
Georgia	11.4%
Missouri	11.4%
Iowa	9.5%
New Jersey	8.7%
Louisiana	8.4%
Illinois	8.1%
Arizona	6.4%
West Virginia	6.4%
Rhode Island	4.3%
Kansas	3.0%
Connecticut	0.0%
Delaware	0.0%
North Dakota	0.0%

A location assigned to satellite or fixed wireless in a plan is not a fiber location in waiting. The technology in the plan is the one the state chose to fund there; each state page shows its own split.

Money not assigned to construction

The 50 final proposals assign $18.15 billion to deployment. The difference between the states' allocations and that cost, $22.71 billion², is larger than the deployment total itself. NTIA's summaries label this difference cost savings; how it may be used is set by separate NTIA policy notices listed on the BEAD program page, not by the final proposals.

The share left over differs by state. Texas has the largest amount not assigned to deployment, $2.05 billion. North Carolina's plan assigns $318.7 million of a $1.53 billion allocation, leaving $1.21 billion; Georgia leaves $1.00 billion of $1.31 billion. Oregon is at the other end: $587.9 million of its $688.9 million¹ goes to deployment and $101.1 million² is left.

Texas$2,054,940,882

North Carolina$1,214,261,811

Georgia$1,002,575,665

Missouri$945,777,136

Florida$940,285,246

Alabama$936,959,556

Louisiana$856,790,466

California$449,088,924

Oregon$101,063,114

Source: NTIA BroadbandUSA, BEAD Final Proposal Overview one-page PDFs.

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Area	BEAD allocation not assigned to deployment
Texas	$2,054,940,882
North Carolina	$1,214,261,811
Georgia	$1,002,575,665
Missouri	$945,777,136
Florida	$940,285,246
Alabama	$936,959,556
Louisiana	$856,790,466
California	$449,088,924
Oregon	$101,063,114

Plan counts and the June 2026 map

A state's plan is easy to set against the number of locations without broadband on the FCC map, but the two counts come from different dates and should not be read as one list. The plans were filed between November 2025 and April 2026; the map figures here are as of June 30, 2026 (November 10, 2026 revision), and the map counts unserved locations (no reliable 25/3 Mbps service) and underserved ones (reliable 25/3 but not 100/20 Mbps).

In some states the plan covers far more locations than the June 2026 map shows as unserved or underserved. Mississippi's plan covers 93,283 locations; the map shows 14,937 unserved and 3,373 underserved. Arizona's covers 161,648, against 76,966 and 75,037. In Virginia the order runs the other way: 85,069² plan locations against 122,184⁴ unserved on the map. The unserved broadband ranking shows the map side of that comparison for every state.

Common misreadings

• An allocation is not money spent. It is the amount assigned to a state. The plan figures above describe planned connections, not built ones.
• Cost per location is not a price. It is public money per planned connection, not what anyone will pay for service. Neither the FCC map nor this page gives prices.
• Locations are not households. One apartment building is one location, and the plans count locations.
• Cost per location here leaves out the match. Adding the providers' own money would raise every state's figure by a different amount.
• Undated BEAD figures go stale. NTIA marks the final proposal figures as subject to change, so a figure without its date or source may describe an earlier stage of the program.