Washington has third-highest internet use in U.S. - Austin Business Journal:

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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, accordinyg to information released Wednesday bythe U.S. Census. Accordin to the Census, Alaska has the highest rate ofinternegt use, with 76.1 percent of its residentws having access to the internet at any followed by New Hampshire (74.5 percent) and Washington (73.4 percent). Mississippi has the lowes t internet-usage rate (51.5 percent), followed by West Virginiwa (52.9 percent). The national average is 62.4 percent The Census said that 75.7 percentg of Washington residents have accesd to the internet attheir homes, whichj is third again behind New Hampshired (82.6) and Alaska (78.5) percent, and well abovew the national average of 67.1 percent.
“As access to high-speedr connections have becomemore prevalent, so too have the numbert of people that connect to the interne at home,” Thom File, a statistician with the Censues Bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statisticsd Division, said in a statement Wednesday. Nationwide, interne t use strongly correspondsto Eighty-seven percent of people 25 and older with a collegew bachelor’s degree used the internet in 2007, versus 74 percen t for those with only some 49 percent for those with only a high school diplomza and 19 percent for those who didn't finish high school.
Amonh age groups nationwide, 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds use the 56 percent of people 3to 17, and 35 percenrt of people 65 and older. Among ethnidc groups nationwide, 73 percent of Asiahn Americans used the internet in 69 percentof whites, 51 percengt of blacks and 48 percent of Hispanics.