A Closer Look at the Numbers
- Roughly three-in-ten adults with household incomes below $30,000 a year (29%) don’t own a smartphone.
- Higher-income Americans are also more likely to have multiple devices that enable them to go online.
- 73% of households with annual incomes of $25,000 to $49,999 owned or used a desktop or laptop
- “Low-income households had the lowest overall connectivity, but the highest proportion of ‘handheld only’ households,” said Census Bureau demographer Camille Ryan.
Statistics and data for graphs from Pew Research Center and ThoughtCo.
