According to the latest data, 78% of U.S. households are now wireless\u2011only phone users, up from 71% just one year ago, which means more than 208 million Americans rely solely on mobile phones for voice communication. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Over the past five years, landline phone use has declined by 40.9 million households, and in the last year alone, 6.5 million have cut the landline cord nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nBut while landlines are disappearing across the country, they haven\u2019t vanished everywhere, and in some states they\u2019re still surprisingly common. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether it\u2019s a sense of nostalgia, reliability, or simply personal preference, it turns out that 55 million Americans<\/strong> are still maintaining a landline! <\/p>\n\n\n\n In this report, NumberBarn breaks down where landlines still exist, how their decline has accelerated, and how Americans feel about this once-universal technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While mobile phones dominate the communication landscape in 2026, nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults \u2014 about 55 million people \u2014 still live in households with a landline phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you live in the Northeast, odds are higher that you\u2019ve still got one plugged in. One-third of adults (33%) in the region say they have a landline at home, making it the most landline-loyal part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even in tech-forward California, landlines persist. More than 1 in 5 Californians (21.5%) still rely on a landline, which may be surprising given the state\u2019s reputation as an early adopter of digital trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other end of the spectrum, residents in states like Idaho, Utah, and Oklahoma are the quickest to cut the cord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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