The digital divide faced in America’s urban neighborhoods is a poor reflection on the state of technological advancement in the United States. Urban areas are densely populated communities, typically located in and around some cities. These highly developed areas highlight a disparity in the digital divide as a separation of class. Unlike rural areas, urban community members do not find themselves in an area void of internet access, they instead find themselves lacking finances which are continuously upheld by systemic oppression depriving internet access to more than two million Americans (Feldman, 2019).

Urban areas face less of a digital divide than their rural counterparts, but the difference in the atmosphere must be taken into account. Rural areas suffer from a lack of internet resources, while their urban counterparts are abundant in data. This is an issue of both race and class status. About 20% of white Americans do not use the internet in urban areas. In comparison, 31% of Black Americans and 34% of Hispanics did not use the internet in 2015. Additionally, about 83% of homes with a family income of $50,000+ used the internet in 2015. Only 57% of homes with an income of $25,000 or less were reportedly using the internet in that same year (Carlson & Goss, 2016).