Detailed Demographic Tables
Internet use and Broadband adoption Nationally, there is a seven percentage point gap between whites and blacks when it comes to internet use. Internet use is nearly universal among younger adults, the college-educated, and those with relatively high incomes, regardless of race. But older blacks are significantly less likely to go online than their white counterparts—just 45% of African Americans age 65 or older use the internet. Internet use is also notably less common among blacks who have not attended college, compared with whites with a similar level of educational attainment.
The broadband adoption gap between whites and blacks is around twice as big as for internet use
in general—12 percentage points. As with internet use, differences between white and black are
most concentrated among older adults and those with low levels of educational attainment. Just
30% of African Americans age 65 or older, and 39% of African Americans who have not attended
college, are home broadband users. By contrast, broadband adoption is nearly universal among
young adults, the college educated, and those in higher-income households, regardless of whether
those individuals are black or white.