BRFSS 2005 - North Carolina Counties and Regions: (During the past 30 days, what is the largest number of drinks you had on any occasion?)

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Alcohol Consumption"

During the past 30 days, what is the largest number of drinks you had on any occasion?

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	Total Respond.^	Only one	Two	Three	Four	Five or more
North Carolina	6,444	1,995	26.5	25.1-27.9	1,798	25.9	24.5-27.3	1,082	18.2	17.0-19.6	445	7.5	6.7- 8.4	1,124	21.9	20.5-23.4
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	165	55	25.6	19.0-33.5	45	33.2	24.1-43.6	25	12.8	8.1-19.4	12	9.0	4.4-17.3	28	19.5	12.6-28.9
Buncombe	196	65	27.2	20.8-34.8	53	22.4	16.5-29.6	50	31.7	23.6-41.2	8	4.3	2.0- 8.8	20	14.4	8.9-22.4
Cabarrus	161	53	28.1	20.8-36.7	45	24.3	17.7-32.3	20	14.7	8.9-23.2	10	5.0	2.6- 9.3	33	28.0	19.1-39.1
Catawba	159	59	31.0	23.0-40.4	35	19.7	13.5-27.9	25	15.4	9.5-24.0	13	9.1	4.6-17.2	27	24.7	16.1-36.0
Cumberland	178	60	28.4	21.2-37.0	43	21.2	15.0-29.1	27	19.7	12.2-30.3	13	9.0	4.7-16.5	35	21.7	15.3-29.8
Davidson	145	41	23.1	16.3-31.7	39	20.3	14.2-28.1	18	11.7	6.7-19.6	9	6.5	3.2-12.7	38	38.4	28.0-50.0
Durham	215	63	25.0	18.9-32.3	66	32.0	24.7-40.4	37	14.8	9.7-22.1	13	6.9	3.8-12.1	36	21.3	15.2-28.9
Forsyth	203	75	31.1	23.6-39.8	57	29.7	22.3-38.3	34	14.8	10.2-21.0	12	8.0	3.9-15.6	25	16.4	10.0-25.7
Gaston	139	45	25.9	18.7-34.6	42	25.8	18.1-35.4	18	11.5	7.0-18.3	6	4.0	1.6- 9.6	28	32.8	21.5-46.6
Guilford	208	75	30.4	23.8-37.9	49	22.1	15.9-29.9	43	20.7	14.6-28.4	9	4.0	1.9- 8.2	32	22.8	15.5-32.4
Iredell	161	52	26.8	19.6-35.4	45	26.3	19.4-34.6	21	12.4	7.6-19.4	12	8.1	4.3-14.7	31	26.5	18.6-36.1
Johnston	123	29	18.3	11.9-27.2	35	22.1	15.2-31.0	25	20.9	12.8-32.3	9	11.9	5.6-23.5	25	26.7	16.7-39.8
Mecklenburg	477	140	26.3	22.0-31.3	129	23.5	19.4-28.2	108	24.9	20.1-30.4	30	6.2	4.2- 9.2	70	19.0	14.7-24.2
New Hanover	239	70	26.3	20.6-33.0	80	26.6	20.8-33.3	44	21.0	14.9-28.7	15	5.9	3.4-10.2	30	20.1	14.0-28.0
Onslow	152	40	23.5	14.0-36.8	44	21.3	15.0-29.5	18	13.5	7.8-22.2	15	13.4	7.1-23.8	35	28.2	19.5-39.0
Orange	261	83	24.8	19.4-31.2	79	29.2	22.4-37.1	40	17.5	12.4-24.1	21	7.8	4.8-12.4	38	20.6	14.7-28.1
Pitt	154	46	26.5	19.6-34.8	45	27.9	20.5-36.8	24	15.7	10.1-23.6	11	10.3	5.1-19.9	28	19.6	13.3-27.8
Randolph	116	41	28.3	20.4-37.8	26	20.2	12.8-30.5	15	11.7	6.4-20.3	5	8.2	3.1-20.0	29	31.5	22.2-42.6
Robeson	106	25	19.8	12.0-30.9	25	20.7	13.2-31.1	14	14.0	7.6-24.4	13	10.9	5.8-19.6	29	34.6	23.9-47.0
Rowan	141	49	30.9	21.1-42.7	42	28.3	19.3-39.5	24	18.5	11.8-27.9	8	4.4	2.0- 9.4	18	17.9	10.5-28.8
Union	138	39	25.0	17.7-34.0	50	28.4	21.0-37.1	15	13.6	7.5-23.3	10	10.6	5.5-19.3	24	22.4	14.9-32.3
Wake	468	133	24.0	19.8-28.7	129	29.4	24.4-35.1	92	19.2	15.4-23.5	41	9.0	6.4-12.5	73	18.4	14.3-23.4
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	216	59	20.7	15.4-27.3	62	25.0	19.2-32.0	35	17.7	12.3-24.7	11	6.6	2.7-15.0	49	30.0	22.7-38.6
Northeast Partnership II	150	44	27.5	20.0-36.6	55	38.0	28.4-48.6	24	17.2	10.9-26.2	10	5.8	2.8-11.6	17	11.5	6.6-19.0
Northeast Partnership I	145	45	28.9	18.7-41.8	36	20.3	14.0-28.4	19	15.1	9.1-23.9	14	10.9	5.8-19.7	31	24.9	17.2-34.4
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	134	38	23.0	16.1-31.6	43	32.5	23.6-43.0	21	18.8	11.4-29.4	13	8.9	4.8-16.1	19	16.8	10.5-25.9
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	138	38	27.1	18.1-38.5	34	22.9	15.1-33.0	31	25.8	15.2-40.1	10	5.4	2.7-10.4	25	18.9	11.0-30.5
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	161	41	20.7	15.1-27.8	48	28.7	21.3-37.5	27	17.9	11.8-26.2	14	10.8	6.1-18.3	31	21.8	15.2-30.3
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	144	48	30.7	22.2-40.8	38	25.5	17.4-35.9	23	16.7	10.3-25.9	11	7.3	3.7-13.9	24	19.7	12.8-29.2
Chatham/Lee/Moore	230	77	32.7	25.9-40.2	72	29.3	23.1-36.4	31	11.8	8.1-17.0	18	7.8	4.7-12.7	32	18.4	12.6-26.1
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	188	60	25.9	18.3-35.2	37	15.2	10.4-21.8	28	13.4	8.5-20.5	14	9.4	4.9-17.4	49	36.1	27.0-46.3
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	126	50	30.7	22.5-40.3	29	26.0	17.2-37.4	19	19.0	11.7-29.4	9	7.8	3.8-15.3	19	16.5	9.8-26.4
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	121	36	23.1	15.8-32.6	35	19.4	13.1-27.8	19	15.3	9.3-24.3	6	3.3	1.4- 7.9	25	38.8	26.3-53.0
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	139	43	27.2	19.7-36.3	32	27.0	18.6-37.4	26	16.3	10.4-24.8	9	5.9	2.9-11.7	29	23.5	16.2-32.8
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	247	78	29.8	23.4-37.1	74	26.5	20.5-33.5	42	14.2	9.8-20.1	11	8.1	4.2-14.9	42	21.4	14.7-30.2
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	370	102	24.5	19.1-30.8	115	28.9	23.5-35.1	53	16.0	11.7-21.4	27	6.4	4.1- 9.9	73	24.3	19.0-30.5
No	6,074	1,893	26.6	25.2-28.0	1,683	25.7	24.3-27.2	1,029	18.4	17.0-19.8	418	7.5	6.7- 8.5	1,051	21.8	20.3-23.3
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	1,922	543	24.6	22.1-27.3	547	24.8	22.4-27.3	311	19.1	16.4-22.1	149	8.5	6.9-10.3	372	23.0	20.5-25.8
Piedmont	3,867	1,241	26.9	25.2-28.7	1,066	26.5	24.6-28.4	645	17.7	16.1-19.3	267	7.4	6.4- 8.5	648	21.6	19.8-23.5
Western NC	655	211	28.3	24.4-32.6	185	25.4	21.5-29.9	126	19.2	15.7-23.4	29	5.8	3.7- 8.9	104	21.2	16.9-26.2
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	443	143	28.8	24.1-34.0	127	24.9	20.5-29.9	92	21.2	16.7-26.5	19	6.6	3.9-10.8	62	18.6	13.8-24.7
Northwest	1,093	369	28.6	25.3-32.1	292	25.6	22.3-29.3	166	14.6	12.2-17.3	70	7.0	5.1- 9.4	196	24.3	20.7-28.2
Charlotte	1,032	317	26.0	22.9-29.3	286	24.0	21.0-27.3	182	20.5	17.3-24.2	66	6.4	4.8- 8.4	181	23.1	19.7-27.0
Greensboro	896	307	29.0	25.4-33.0	239	24.7	21.1-28.8	144	17.8	14.4-21.7	61	6.7	4.9- 9.1	145	21.7	17.7-26.3
Southern Regional	590	172	25.1	20.3-30.7	148	21.6	17.4-26.6	92	19.8	14.0-27.2	46	7.4	5.1-10.6	132	26.0	20.9-31.9
Coastal	400	111	23.8	19.5-28.6	127	27.5	22.7-33.0	71	20.3	15.6-26.0	29	8.2	5.4-12.2	62	20.2	15.7-25.6
Wake	1,031	294	23.9	20.9-27.2	301	30.1	26.4-34.0	188	17.8	15.1-20.9	79	8.7	6.8-11.2	169	19.5	16.4-23.0
Area L	200	65	31.0	23.1-40.1	55	22.7	16.7-30.0	30	19.9	13.0-29.2	17	8.5	4.8-14.7	33	17.9	12.3-25.3
Eastern	759	217	25.0	21.2-29.3	223	26.9	23.1-30.9	117	16.6	13.5-20.3	58	8.6	6.1-12.0	144	22.9	19.1-27.1

Total
Respond.^

Only one

Two

Three

Four

Five or more

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

6,444

1,995

26.5

25.1-27.9

1,798

25.9

24.5-27.3

1,082

18.2

17.0-19.6

445

7.5

6.7- 8.4

1,124

21.9

20.5-23.4

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

165

25.6

19.0-33.5

33.2

24.1-43.6

12.8

8.1-19.4

9.0

4.4-17.3

19.5

12.6-28.9

Buncombe

196

27.2

20.8-34.8

22.4

16.5-29.6

31.7

23.6-41.2

4.3

2.0- 8.8

14.4

8.9-22.4

Cabarrus

161

28.1

20.8-36.7

24.3

17.7-32.3

14.7

8.9-23.2

5.0

2.6- 9.3

28.0

19.1-39.1

Catawba

159

31.0

23.0-40.4

19.7

13.5-27.9

15.4

9.5-24.0

9.1

4.6-17.2

24.7

16.1-36.0

Cumberland

178

28.4

21.2-37.0

21.2

15.0-29.1

19.7

12.2-30.3

9.0

4.7-16.5

21.7

15.3-29.8

Davidson

145

23.1

16.3-31.7

20.3

14.2-28.1

11.7

6.7-19.6

6.5

3.2-12.7

38.4

28.0-50.0

Durham

215

25.0

18.9-32.3

32.0

24.7-40.4

14.8

9.7-22.1

6.9

3.8-12.1

21.3

15.2-28.9

Forsyth

203

31.1

23.6-39.8

29.7

22.3-38.3

14.8

10.2-21.0

8.0

3.9-15.6

16.4

10.0-25.7

Gaston

139

25.9

18.7-34.6

25.8

18.1-35.4

11.5

7.0-18.3

4.0

1.6- 9.6

32.8

21.5-46.6

Guilford

208

30.4

23.8-37.9

22.1

15.9-29.9

20.7

14.6-28.4

4.0

1.9- 8.2

22.8

15.5-32.4

Iredell

161

26.8

19.6-35.4

26.3

19.4-34.6

12.4

7.6-19.4

8.1

4.3-14.7

26.5

18.6-36.1

Johnston

123

18.3

11.9-27.2

22.1

15.2-31.0

20.9

12.8-32.3

11.9

5.6-23.5

26.7

16.7-39.8

Mecklenburg

477

140

26.3

22.0-31.3

129

23.5

19.4-28.2

108

24.9

20.1-30.4

6.2

4.2- 9.2

19.0

14.7-24.2

New Hanover

239

26.3

20.6-33.0

26.6

20.8-33.3

21.0

14.9-28.7

5.9

3.4-10.2

20.1

14.0-28.0

Onslow

152

23.5

14.0-36.8

21.3

15.0-29.5

13.5

7.8-22.2

13.4

7.1-23.8

28.2

19.5-39.0

Orange

261

24.8

19.4-31.2

29.2

22.4-37.1

17.5

12.4-24.1

7.8

4.8-12.4

20.6

14.7-28.1

Pitt

154

26.5

19.6-34.8

27.9

20.5-36.8

15.7

10.1-23.6

10.3

5.1-19.9

19.6

13.3-27.8

Randolph

116

28.3

20.4-37.8

20.2

12.8-30.5

11.7

6.4-20.3

8.2

3.1-20.0

31.5

22.2-42.6

Robeson

106

19.8

12.0-30.9

20.7

13.2-31.1

14.0

7.6-24.4

10.9

5.8-19.6

34.6

23.9-47.0

Rowan

141

30.9

21.1-42.7

28.3

19.3-39.5

18.5

11.8-27.9

4.4

2.0- 9.4

17.9

10.5-28.8

Union

138

25.0

17.7-34.0

28.4

21.0-37.1

13.6

7.5-23.3

10.6

5.5-19.3

22.4

14.9-32.3

Wake

468

133

24.0

19.8-28.7

129

29.4

24.4-35.1

19.2

15.4-23.5

9.0

6.4-12.5

18.4

14.3-23.4

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

216

20.7

15.4-27.3

25.0

19.2-32.0

17.7

12.3-24.7

6.6

2.7-15.0

30.0

22.7-38.6

Northeast Partnership II

150

27.5

20.0-36.6

38.0

28.4-48.6

17.2

10.9-26.2

5.8

2.8-11.6

11.5

6.6-19.0

Northeast Partnership I

145

28.9

18.7-41.8

20.3

14.0-28.4

15.1

9.1-23.9

10.9

5.8-19.7

24.9

17.2-34.4

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

134

23.0

16.1-31.6

32.5

23.6-43.0

18.8

11.4-29.4

8.9

4.8-16.1

16.8

10.5-25.9

Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne

138

27.1

18.1-38.5

22.9

15.1-33.0

25.8

15.2-40.1

5.4

2.7-10.4

18.9

11.0-30.5

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

161

20.7

15.1-27.8

28.7

21.3-37.5

17.9

11.8-26.2

10.8

6.1-18.3

21.8

15.2-30.3

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

144

30.7

22.2-40.8

25.5

17.4-35.9

16.7

10.3-25.9

7.3

3.7-13.9

19.7

12.8-29.2

Chatham/Lee/Moore

230

32.7

25.9-40.2

29.3

23.1-36.4

11.8

8.1-17.0

7.8

4.7-12.7

18.4

12.6-26.1

Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly

188

25.9

18.3-35.2

15.2

10.4-21.8

13.4

8.5-20.5

9.4

4.9-17.4

36.1

27.0-46.3

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

126

30.7

22.5-40.3

26.0

17.2-37.4

19.0

11.7-29.4

7.8

3.8-15.3

16.5

9.8-26.4

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes

121

23.1

15.8-32.6

19.4

13.1-27.8

15.3

9.3-24.3

3.3

1.4- 7.9

38.8

26.3-53.0

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

139

27.2

19.7-36.3

27.0

18.6-37.4

16.3

10.4-24.8

5.9

2.9-11.7

23.5

16.2-32.8

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

247

29.8

23.4-37.1

26.5

20.5-33.5

14.2

9.8-20.1

8.1

4.2-14.9

21.4

14.7-30.2

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

370

102

24.5

19.1-30.8

115

28.9

23.5-35.1

16.0

11.7-21.4

6.4

4.1- 9.9

24.3

19.0-30.5

6,074

1,893

26.6

25.2-28.0

1,683

25.7

24.3-27.2

1,029

18.4

17.0-19.8

418

7.5

6.7- 8.5

1,051

21.8

20.3-23.3

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

1,922

543

24.6

22.1-27.3

547

24.8

22.4-27.3

311

19.1

16.4-22.1

149

8.5

6.9-10.3

372

23.0

20.5-25.8

Piedmont

3,867

1,241

26.9

25.2-28.7

1,066

26.5

24.6-28.4

645

17.7

16.1-19.3

267

7.4

6.4- 8.5

648

21.6

19.8-23.5

Western NC

655

211

28.3

24.4-32.6

185

25.4

21.5-29.9

126

19.2

15.7-23.4

5.8

3.7- 8.9

104

21.2

16.9-26.2

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

443

143

28.8

24.1-34.0

127

24.9

20.5-29.9

21.2

16.7-26.5

6.6

3.9-10.8

18.6

13.8-24.7

Northwest

1,093

369

28.6

25.3-32.1

292

25.6

22.3-29.3

166

14.6

12.2-17.3

7.0

5.1- 9.4

196

24.3

20.7-28.2

Charlotte

1,032

317

26.0

22.9-29.3

286

24.0

21.0-27.3

182

20.5

17.3-24.2

6.4

4.8- 8.4

181

23.1

19.7-27.0

Greensboro

896

307

29.0

25.4-33.0

239

24.7

21.1-28.8

144

17.8

14.4-21.7

6.7

4.9- 9.1

145

21.7

17.7-26.3

Southern Regional

590

172

25.1

20.3-30.7

148

21.6

17.4-26.6

19.8

14.0-27.2

7.4

5.1-10.6

132

26.0

20.9-31.9

Coastal

400

111

23.8

19.5-28.6

127

27.5

22.7-33.0

20.3

15.6-26.0

8.2

5.4-12.2

20.2

15.7-25.6

Wake

1,031

294

23.9

20.9-27.2

301

30.1

26.4-34.0

188

17.8

15.1-20.9

8.7

6.8-11.2

169

19.5

16.4-23.0

Area L

200

31.0

23.1-40.1

22.7

16.7-30.0

19.9

13.0-29.2

8.5

4.8-14.7

17.9

12.3-25.3

Eastern

759

217

25.0

21.2-29.3

223

26.9

23.1-30.9

117

16.6

13.5-20.3

8.6

6.1-12.0

144

22.9

19.1-27.1

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*This question asked only of respondents who reported drinking at least one drink in the last month.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

****Learn about the NC Area Health Education Centers Program

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