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    Cary Broadband Internet Access

    Metadata Updated: March 22, 2026

    Part of the What Works Cities criterion to achieve Certification, we need to meet the industry standard of at least 75% of our households have subscriptions / access to high-speed broadband services

    Part of the American Community Survey (ACS) asks the levels of internet access residents have. We use the 5-Year Estimates to have a greater level of precision to our data, according to the Distinguishing features of ACS 1-year, 1-year supplemental, 3-year, and 5-year estimates table.

    We query attributes of the DP02 (Selected Social Characteristics in the United States) Group of questions for years available.

    This dataset has been narrowed down to Cary township using following the geographies codes supported for the ACS dataset:

    1. state: 37
    2. county: 183
    3. county subdivision: 90536

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    References

    https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 13, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Town of Cary, NC Data.json Harvest Source

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 13, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Census Bureau
    Maintainer
    <Nobody>
    Identifier cary-broadband-internet-access-american-community-survey
    Language en
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-20T19:13:37+00:00
    Rights CC0 1.0 Universal
    Category Services, Social
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.townofcary.org/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 5569ec2f-559c-4c23-a21e-0bd8522dd8c8
    Harvest Source Id 49a7e9f8-1a28-41ce-9ea8-146d221bb34a
    Harvest Source Title Town of Cary, NC Data.json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://data.townofcary.org/explore/dataset/cary-broadband-internet-access-american-community-survey/
    Related Documents https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 09c3d0ece11f96fd033971378848fca0104c02dc0bcca6ca4b954b2c810ecb34
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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