Crap Towns / Plymouth / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Plymouth?
In January 2026, 1.5% of premises in Plymouth couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 3.0 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 640 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 93.7% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 640 | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 2,009 | 1.5% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 121,619 | 93.7% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Launceston | 31.4 km | 7.8 |
| Liskeard | 24.7 km | 5.6 |
| Bovey Tracey | 38.3 km | 3.0 |
| Looe | 23.9 km | 2.7 |
| Plymouth | – | 1.5 |
| Totnes | 31.4 km | 1.4 |
| Ivybridge | 14.4 km | 1.0 |
| Saltash | 7.3 km | 1.0 |
| Tavistock | 16.6 km | 0.8 |
| Kingsbridge | 28.1 km | 0.1 |
| Torpoint | 6.1 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |