Digital Distress

Economic distress measures, typically based on unemployment and income levels, are used to inform planning and implementation around economic development and quality of life. Digital distress is defined as areas (tracts) that had a high percent of homes with no internet access or accessing the internet only through cellular data and a high percent of homes with no computing devices or relying only on mobile devices. Map below shows Indiana tracts categorized into low, moderate, and high digital distress.