How many households are going mobile-only?
According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), nearly 15% of all US households were wireless-only in 2007. In addition, wireless-only adults made up 13.7% of the population.
Prevalence of wireless-only households was greatest in the Midwest, with the South and Southwest also high. The lowest incidences of wireless-only households occurred mostly in California, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and scattered states in the Northeast.
However, regional exceptions exist. Sometimes neighboring states have very different usage patterns.
The NCHS is still calculating data for 2008. But wireless-only households were up to 17.5% of the total in the first half of the year, and adults using only mobiles crept up to 16.1% during the same time period.
Looking ahead to 2009 wireless-only figures, the NCHS wrote: “It is very likely that the current state-level prevalence rates of wireless only households and adults are greater than the estimates presented here.”
How much greater is yet to be seen.
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