Fiber to the premises is reported at all or nearly all homes and businesses in a group of large cities that includes Clarksville, Tennessee and Lincoln, Nebraska, and at 0.0% in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The median large city is at 74.0%, above the national 62.6%1, in FCC data as of June 30, 2026.
Data: FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (file revision of November 10, 2026).
Clarksville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lincoln, Nebraska and Simi Valley, California are among the cities tied for first of the 343 largest in the US, with fiber to the premises reported at 100.0% of their homes and businesses; New Bedford, Massachusetts is last at 0.0%, after Cambridge, Massachusetts (0.5%) and Albany, New York (2.0%1). The figures are from the FCC National Broadband Map as of June 30, 2026, file revision of November 10, 2026. Each is the share of a city's broadband serviceable locations, counted within city limits, where at least one provider reports fiber at any speed. Find a city in the table below; it also gives the number of fiber providers in the city and the change since the first map, as of June 30, 2022.
Locations where fiber-to-the-premises is available: the 343 largest cities
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Rank 1 is the highest value; "=" marks a tie at the displayed precision. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
Cities are ahead of the country
Fiber is more common in large cities than in the US as a whole. The median city in the table is at 74.0%, against 62.6% of all US locations. 258 of the 343 cities have fiber at half of their locations or more, 166 at three-quarters or more and 73 at nine in ten or more. 3211 reach a quarter; the rest form a short tail of cities where fiber is the exception.
That tail is mostly coastal. Below the three lowest, the bottom ten run through Anchorage, Alaska (6.2%), Quincy, Massachusetts (9.0%), Renton, Washington (10.5%), Corona, California (13.0%), Escondido, California (15.6%), Kent, Washington (15.9%) and Baltimore, Maryland (16.7%1). Low fiber does not mean no fast wired service: cable is counted separately, and each city's page shows the full mix of technologies.
The 20 large cities with the lowest share of locations with fiber available, June 30, 2026
Size does not predict fiber. New York has fiber at 90.3% of its locations, tied for 66th highest among the large cities; Chicago, the third largest, has it at 36.6%, 51st lowest. Los Angeles (51.9%), Phoenix (31.4%) and San Diego (44.6%) are below the national figure, while Philadelphia (95.7%1) and the four Texas cities in the top ten are well above it.
The ten largest US cities: fiber in 2022 and 2026, fiber providers and second fiber networks
Most of New York's fiber is one network: Verizon reports fiber at 86.2% of its locations, and Optimum offers residential fiber at 27.3%, mostly in the Bronx and Brooklyn. 25.2% of locations have two or more fiber providers, against 12.1% nationally. On the first map, as of June 30, 2022, New York's share was 59.5%2. In Chicago the largest fiber provider, AT&T, reports it at 32.0%1 of locations.
Massachusetts: the bottom of the table
Massachusetts has three of the five lowest cities: New Bedford, Massachusetts (0.0%), Cambridge, Massachusetts (0.5%) and Quincy, Massachusetts (9.0%). Boston is at 87.3%1.
Share of locations with fiber available, Massachusetts cities in the ranking, June 30, 2026
Much of the difference follows one provider's fiber footprint. Verizon reports fiber at 95.0% of locations in Lynn, 90.1% in Brockton and 86.6% in Boston, but at 34.7% in Worcester and 8.8% in Quincy; in Springfield the main fiber provider is GoNetspeed, at 40.8%. Cambridge is a case of fiber that a household cannot order: a fiber network files service across the city for business customers only, and those listings are not counted here, which leaves the city at 0.5%. The state as a whole is at 54.5%, 12th lowest1 among the states.
More fiber providers is not more fiber
The fiber-provider column of the full table counts distinct providers reporting fiber anywhere in the city. It measures how many companies have filed, not how far fiber reaches. Dallas has 12 fiber providers, tied for 3rd highest count of any large city, and fiber at 84.4% of locations, most of it from AT&T (81.8%). Los Angeles has 15 (the highest) and fiber at 51.9%. Chattanooga has 4, and fiber at 100.0%, because one of them, EPB, reports it at 100.0%1 of locations.
A better measure of fiber choice is the share of locations where two or more providers report fiber. It is highest in Overland Park (91.0%), Bridgeport (89.5%), Simi Valley (89.2%) and West Valley City (86.4%). In Chattanooga it is 6.2%, in Dallas 1.7%1.
Share of locations with two or more fiber providers, selected large cities, June 30, 2026
Some of today's leaders had almost no fiber on the first map. Simi Valley rose from 3.1% to 99.9%, the largest gain of any large city, with two networks, Anthem Connect (99.9%) and GigabitNow (87.7%); 37.8 percentage points of that gain came in the latest six months. Rio Rancho (1.2% to 97.0%) and Brockton (0.0% to 90.1%) follow. Among the largest cities, Baltimore moved from 1.6%2 to 16.7%1.
The 15 large cities with the largest gain in fiber availability, June 30, 2022 to June 30, 2026 (percentage points)
Shares also go down, though in four years no large city lost much. Paterson, New Jersey went from 99.1% to 94.7%, Oxnard, California from 64.2% to 61.0% and Evansville, Indiana from 66.3%2 to 63.6%. In the latest six months alone, Sioux Falls fell from 65.7% to 55.1% and Seattle from 84.1%3 to 79.9%1. The FCC data record what providers filed in each release; they do not say why a filing changed. Compare a city's figure across releases before reading a change as new construction or as lost service.
Pitfalls
City limits, not metro areas. Each figure covers the locations inside the Census city boundary. Suburbs are separate rows, which is why Dallas and its neighbors, or Boston and Quincy, differ.
Locations, not households. The FCC counts houses, apartment buildings and small businesses once each; an apartment building is one location however many units it has.
Available is not subscribed. A provider's report means it says it can install service within ten business days. The FCC National Broadband Map shows the listings for one address and takes challenges to them.
Business-only fiber is not counted. Some networks file fiber across whole cities for business customers only; a household cannot order it, so those listings are left out (the methodology explains how).
Fiber-backed cable is not fiber. Cable networks use fiber for most of the route and coaxial cable into the home; the FCC counts them as cable, and so does this ranking. The fiber page explains the technology codes.
No prices. The FCC data contain no prices; this page does not compare plans or say which provider to choose.
Questions and answers
Which large US city has the most fiber internet?
Several are tied. Clarksville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lincoln, Nebraska, Simi Valley, California and Longmont, Colorado all have fiber reported at 100.0%1 of homes and businesses, rounded to one decimal, in the FCC data as of June 30, 2026.
Which large city has the least fiber?
New Bedford, Massachusetts, where fiber is reported at 0.0% of locations, followed by Cambridge, Massachusetts (0.5%) and Albany, New York (2.0%1).
Can I get fiber at my address if my city is at the top of this table?
Not necessarily. A city's share counts locations across the whole city. Whether a provider reports fiber at one address is on the FCC National Broadband Map, where a listing that is wrong can be challenged.