BRFSS 2005 - North Carolina Counties and Regions: (During the past 30 days, how many days per week or per month did you have at least one drink of any alcoholic beverage?*)

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Alcohol Consumption"

During the past 30 days, how many days per week or per month did you have at least one drink of any alcoholic beverage?*

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	Total Respond.^	No drinks	1-2 days	3-7 days	8-29 days	Everyday
North Carolina	6,629	64	0.9	0.7- 1.3	2,124	32.7	31.2-34.3	2,051	31.6	30.1-33.1	1,802	27.4	26.0-28.9	588	7.3	6.6- 8.1
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	169	1	0.4	0.1- 3.1	55	30.3	22.8-39.1	48	30.0	21.6-40.0	51	32.5	23.9-42.5	14	6.7	3.7-12.0
Buncombe	199	1	0.5	0.1- 3.8	50	27.0	19.6-36.1	62	31.8	24.6-39.9	71	35.3	27.7-43.8	15	5.3	2.9- 9.4
Cabarrus	170	3	2.8	0.6-11.6	65	32.4	24.9-40.9	56	33.8	25.5-43.2	36	27.6	19.1-38.1	10	3.5	1.8- 6.8
Catawba	161	1	0.5	0.1- 3.2	57	34.6	25.9-44.5	50	32.0	23.3-42.1	38	26.2	17.9-36.6	15	6.8	3.9-11.5
Cumberland	185	1	0.6	0.1- 4.0	80	45.3	36.3-54.6	51	26.9	20.1-35.1	42	22.3	15.8-30.5	11	4.9	2.5- 9.1
Davidson	148	0	0.0	. - .	64	44.7	34.7-55.2	35	26.2	17.7-36.9	32	18.5	12.5-26.4	17	10.6	5.5-19.5
Durham	220	1	0.3	0.0- 2.4	67	30.4	23.5-38.3	66	28.8	22.1-36.4	71	33.1	25.8-41.4	15	7.4	3.7-14.1
Forsyth	206	0	0.0	. - .	56	26.5	19.9-34.4	79	45.8	36.9-54.9	49	21.1	15.4-28.1	22	6.7	4.2-10.4
Gaston	142	2	1.2	0.3- 5.0	57	37.2	27.9-47.5	42	28.6	20.5-38.3	30	26.0	15.4-40.5	11	7.1	3.5-13.8
Guilford	210	2	0.8	0.2- 3.4	68	32.5	25.1-40.9	56	27.3	20.0-36.0	66	32.0	24.7-40.2	18	7.4	4.4-12.0
Iredell	167	2	1.6	0.4- 6.2	53	31.1	23.2-40.2	62	36.7	28.7-45.5	38	24.7	17.5-33.6	12	5.9	3.3-10.5
Johnston	128	2	4.2	0.7-21.8	37	29.4	20.5-40.3	48	39.3	29.0-50.7	30	21.4	14.5-30.5	11	5.6	2.9-10.6
Mecklenburg	493	7	1.5	0.7- 3.4	135	29.9	24.8-35.6	156	28.5	24.1-33.3	155	33.4	28.5-38.7	40	6.7	4.5- 9.7
New Hanover	241	1	0.3	0.0- 2.4	57	27.3	20.6-35.3	67	27.2	20.9-34.5	81	32.9	26.4-40.2	35	12.2	8.3-17.6
Onslow	163	1	1.5	0.2-10.0	62	38.1	27.8-49.6	55	33.5	24.9-43.3	35	23.3	15.3-33.8	10	3.6	1.8- 7.0
Orange	266	1	0.4	0.1- 2.9	64	26.4	19.5-34.7	70	25.2	19.5-32.0	106	39.7	32.6-47.2	25	8.2	5.4-12.5
Pitt	159	2	0.5	0.1- 2.2	57	33.5	25.6-42.3	42	29.0	21.1-38.4	46	30.5	22.9-39.4	12	6.5	3.5-11.8
Randolph	124	3	2.8	0.6-11.4	41	33.9	24.5-44.7	38	26.7	18.9-36.2	26	25.8	17.3-36.5	16	10.8	6.3-18.0
Robeson	109	2	2.2	0.5- 8.3	42	33.1	23.3-44.6	44	43.5	32.1-55.6	14	15.1	8.2-26.1	7	6.2	2.5-14.5
Rowan	143	1	0.7	0.1- 5.0	56	35.5	26.1-46.2	47	40.5	29.4-52.6	31	18.9	12.5-27.5	8	4.5	2.1- 9.4
Union	139	0	0.0	. - .	39	26.9	19.2-36.2	60	45.2	35.7-55.0	32	22.4	15.2-31.7	8	5.6	2.6-11.7
Wake	487	6	0.9	0.4- 2.2	140	31.1	26.2-36.4	149	32.0	27.2-37.3	149	29.2	24.6-34.4	43	6.7	4.8- 9.3
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	223	2	0.6	0.1- 2.5	64	29.1	22.6-36.5	73	38.0	30.2-46.5	60	24.8	18.9-31.8	24	7.5	4.9-11.3
Northeast Partnership II	156	0	0.0	. - .	51	37.8	28.4-48.2	49	29.1	21.2-38.4	42	24.2	17.4-32.6	14	9.0	4.9-15.9
Northeast Partnership I	149	3	1.4	0.4- 4.7	51	35.1	24.7-47.1	39	24.4	16.8-34.0	42	31.3	22.7-41.3	14	7.9	4.5-13.6
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	138	1	0.4	0.1- 3.1	52	36.7	27.7-46.8	41	34.3	24.9-45.1	38	25.6	18.2-34.8	6	2.9	1.3- 6.5
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	142	1	0.2	0.0- 1.8	62	44.9	33.6-56.9	34	28.0	17.4-42.0	27	16.8	9.6-27.8	18	9.9	5.6-17.1
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	168	1	0.9	0.1- 6.3	44	26.8	19.7-35.4	58	37.3	29.1-46.2	48	27.6	20.7-35.7	17	7.4	4.4-12.2
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	146	1	0.3	0.0- 2.4	57	36.0	27.0-46.2	49	39.3	29.5-50.1	29	18.4	12.4-26.5	10	5.9	2.9-11.5
Chatham/Lee/Moore	233	2	1.4	0.3- 6.2	56	25.1	19.0-32.5	72	29.7	23.5-36.9	67	29.6	23.2-37.0	36	14.1	9.6-20.2
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	198	5	2.5	0.8- 7.1	66	32.9	24.5-42.6	65	31.9	24.3-40.7	50	26.5	18.8-35.8	12	6.2	3.0-12.4
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	133	2	1.6	0.3- 6.9	46	38.2	28.2-49.2	48	33.3	24.7-43.3	29	21.0	14.2-29.9	8	6.0	2.7-12.6
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	121	1	0.7	0.1- 5.1	40	29.0	20.2-39.7	46	39.7	28.5-52.2	26	24.5	14.2-38.9	8	6.1	2.1-16.2
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	141	1	0.3	0.0- 1.8	47	38.8	29.6-49.0	33	22.6	15.6-31.6	43	28.2	20.7-37.1	17	10.1	5.7-17.4
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	252	4	1.2	0.4- 3.6	86	33.7	26.7-41.5	61	25.5	18.6-33.8	72	28.4	21.8-36.1	29	11.2	7.2-17.0
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	384	3	0.4	0.1- 1.5	116	31.9	25.9-38.5	116	29.7	24.2-35.9	111	29.5	24.2-35.3	38	8.5	5.9-12.0
No	6,245	61	1.0	0.7- 1.3	2,008	32.8	31.2-34.4	1,935	31.7	30.1-33.3	1,691	27.3	25.9-28.8	550	7.3	6.5- 8.1
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	1,991	18	0.9	0.5- 1.7	670	35.4	32.6-38.4	612	32.0	29.1-35.0	509	24.2	21.9-26.8	182	7.4	6.2- 8.8
Piedmont	3,976	40	1.0	0.7- 1.5	1,244	31.4	29.5-33.4	1,252	32.1	30.2-34.1	1,099	28.5	26.7-30.4	341	6.9	6.1- 7.9
Western NC	662	6	0.8	0.3- 1.8	210	33.6	29.0-38.5	187	27.9	23.7-32.6	194	28.8	24.6-33.4	65	9.0	6.6-12.1
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	451	5	1.0	0.4- 2.5	136	31.1	25.8-36.9	123	28.0	22.8-33.8	143	31.1	26.0-36.8	44	8.9	6.2-12.6
Northwest	1,112	7	0.7	0.3- 1.6	380	33.4	29.8-37.2	369	35.7	31.9-39.7	255	22.5	19.5-25.9	101	7.7	6.0- 9.9
Charlotte	1,066	14	1.4	0.7- 2.6	326	30.2	26.7-34.0	358	31.5	28.2-35.0	290	31.0	27.4-34.8	78	6.0	4.5- 7.9
Greensboro	918	10	1.2	0.6- 2.3	281	32.9	28.7-37.4	253	27.2	23.2-31.5	283	30.8	26.9-35.0	91	8.0	6.2-10.2
Southern Regional	613	6	0.9	0.3- 2.1	228	39.0	33.2-45.2	191	31.8	25.9-38.3	137	21.0	16.6-26.3	51	7.3	5.2-10.3
Coastal	408	2	0.6	0.1- 2.8	99	26.3	21.3-32.0	124	32.0	26.8-37.8	130	30.6	25.7-36.0	53	10.4	7.5-14.3
Wake	1,065	11	1.0	0.5- 2.1	324	31.1	27.6-34.9	338	32.7	29.1-36.5	309	28.7	25.3-32.4	83	6.5	5.0- 8.3
Area L	210	2	0.8	0.2- 3.1	78	37.9	29.7-46.9	63	31.3	23.6-40.1	51	23.1	17.0-30.5	16	7.0	4.0-11.9
Eastern	786	7	0.7	0.3- 1.8	272	36.5	32.2-41.1	232	30.9	26.8-35.3	204	24.9	21.4-28.7	71	7.0	5.4- 9.2

Total
Respond.^

No drinks

1-2 days

3-7 days

8-29 days

Everyday

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

6,629

0.9

0.7- 1.3

2,124

32.7

31.2-34.3

2,051

31.6

30.1-33.1

1,802

27.4

26.0-28.9

588

7.3

6.6- 8.1

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

169

0.4

0.1- 3.1

30.3

22.8-39.1

30.0

21.6-40.0

32.5

23.9-42.5

6.7

3.7-12.0

Buncombe

199

0.5

0.1- 3.8

27.0

19.6-36.1

31.8

24.6-39.9

35.3

27.7-43.8

5.3

2.9- 9.4

Cabarrus

170

2.8

0.6-11.6

32.4

24.9-40.9

33.8

25.5-43.2

27.6

19.1-38.1

3.5

1.8- 6.8

Catawba

161

0.5

0.1- 3.2

34.6

25.9-44.5

32.0

23.3-42.1

26.2

17.9-36.6

6.8

3.9-11.5

Cumberland

185

0.6

0.1- 4.0

45.3

36.3-54.6

26.9

20.1-35.1

22.3

15.8-30.5

4.9

2.5- 9.1

Davidson

148

0.0

. - .

44.7

34.7-55.2

26.2

17.7-36.9

18.5

12.5-26.4

10.6

5.5-19.5

Durham

220

0.3

0.0- 2.4

30.4

23.5-38.3

28.8

22.1-36.4

33.1

25.8-41.4

7.4

3.7-14.1

Forsyth

206

0.0

. - .

26.5

19.9-34.4

45.8

36.9-54.9

21.1

15.4-28.1

6.7

4.2-10.4

Gaston

142

1.2

0.3- 5.0

37.2

27.9-47.5

28.6

20.5-38.3

26.0

15.4-40.5

7.1

3.5-13.8

Guilford

210

0.8

0.2- 3.4

32.5

25.1-40.9

27.3

20.0-36.0

32.0

24.7-40.2

7.4

4.4-12.0

Iredell

167

1.6

0.4- 6.2

31.1

23.2-40.2

36.7

28.7-45.5

24.7

17.5-33.6

5.9

3.3-10.5

Johnston

128

4.2

0.7-21.8

29.4

20.5-40.3

39.3

29.0-50.7

21.4

14.5-30.5

5.6

2.9-10.6

Mecklenburg

493

1.5

0.7- 3.4

135

29.9

24.8-35.6

156

28.5

24.1-33.3

155

33.4

28.5-38.7

6.7

4.5- 9.7

New Hanover

241

0.3

0.0- 2.4

27.3

20.6-35.3

27.2

20.9-34.5

32.9

26.4-40.2

12.2

8.3-17.6

Onslow

163

1.5

0.2-10.0

38.1

27.8-49.6

33.5

24.9-43.3

23.3

15.3-33.8

3.6

1.8- 7.0

Orange

266

0.4

0.1- 2.9

26.4

19.5-34.7

25.2

19.5-32.0

106

39.7

32.6-47.2

8.2

5.4-12.5

Pitt

159

0.5

0.1- 2.2

33.5

25.6-42.3

29.0

21.1-38.4

30.5

22.9-39.4

6.5

3.5-11.8

Randolph

124

2.8

0.6-11.4

33.9

24.5-44.7

26.7

18.9-36.2

25.8

17.3-36.5

10.8

6.3-18.0

Robeson

109

2.2

0.5- 8.3

33.1

23.3-44.6

43.5

32.1-55.6

15.1

8.2-26.1

6.2

2.5-14.5

Rowan

143

0.7

0.1- 5.0

35.5

26.1-46.2

40.5

29.4-52.6

18.9

12.5-27.5

4.5

2.1- 9.4

Union

139

0.0

. - .

26.9

19.2-36.2

45.2

35.7-55.0

22.4

15.2-31.7

5.6

2.6-11.7

Wake

487

0.9

0.4- 2.2

140

31.1

26.2-36.4

149

32.0

27.2-37.3

149

29.2

24.6-34.4

6.7

4.8- 9.3

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

223

0.6

0.1- 2.5

29.1

22.6-36.5

38.0

30.2-46.5

24.8

18.9-31.8

7.5

4.9-11.3

Northeast Partnership II

156

0.0

. - .

37.8

28.4-48.2

29.1

21.2-38.4

24.2

17.4-32.6

9.0

4.9-15.9

Northeast Partnership I

149

1.4

0.4- 4.7

35.1

24.7-47.1

24.4

16.8-34.0

31.3

22.7-41.3

7.9

4.5-13.6

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

138

0.4

0.1- 3.1

36.7

27.7-46.8

34.3

24.9-45.1

25.6

18.2-34.8

2.9

1.3- 6.5

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

142

0.2

0.0- 1.8

44.9

33.6-56.9

28.0

17.4-42.0

16.8

9.6-27.8

9.9

5.6-17.1

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

168

0.9

0.1- 6.3

26.8

19.7-35.4

37.3

29.1-46.2

27.6

20.7-35.7

7.4

4.4-12.2

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

146

0.3

0.0- 2.4

36.0

27.0-46.2

39.3

29.5-50.1

18.4

12.4-26.5

5.9

2.9-11.5

Chatham/Lee/Moore

233

1.4

0.3- 6.2

25.1

19.0-32.5

29.7

23.5-36.9

29.6

23.2-37.0

14.1

9.6-20.2

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

198

2.5

0.8- 7.1

32.9

24.5-42.6

31.9

24.3-40.7

26.5

18.8-35.8

6.2

3.0-12.4

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

133

1.6

0.3- 6.9

38.2

28.2-49.2

33.3

24.7-43.3

21.0

14.2-29.9

6.0

2.7-12.6

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes

121

0.7

0.1- 5.1

29.0

20.2-39.7

39.7

28.5-52.2

24.5

14.2-38.9

6.1

2.1-16.2

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

141

0.3

0.0- 1.8

38.8

29.6-49.0

22.6

15.6-31.6

28.2

20.7-37.1

10.1

5.7-17.4

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

252

1.2

0.4- 3.6

33.7

26.7-41.5

25.5

18.6-33.8

28.4

21.8-36.1

11.2

7.2-17.0

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

384

0.4

0.1- 1.5

116

31.9

25.9-38.5

116

29.7

24.2-35.9

111

29.5

24.2-35.3

8.5

5.9-12.0

6,245

1.0

0.7- 1.3

2,008

32.8

31.2-34.4

1,935

31.7

30.1-33.3

1,691

27.3

25.9-28.8

550

7.3

6.5- 8.1

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

1,991

0.9

0.5- 1.7

670

35.4

32.6-38.4

612

32.0

29.1-35.0

509

24.2

21.9-26.8

182

7.4

6.2- 8.8

Piedmont

3,976

1.0

0.7- 1.5

1,244

31.4

29.5-33.4

1,252

32.1

30.2-34.1

1,099

28.5

26.7-30.4

341

6.9

6.1- 7.9

Western NC

662

0.8

0.3- 1.8

210

33.6

29.0-38.5

187

27.9

23.7-32.6

194

28.8

24.6-33.4

9.0

6.6-12.1

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

451

1.0

0.4- 2.5

136

31.1

25.8-36.9

123

28.0

22.8-33.8

143

31.1

26.0-36.8

8.9

6.2-12.6

Northwest

1,112

0.7

0.3- 1.6

380

33.4

29.8-37.2

369

35.7

31.9-39.7

255

22.5

19.5-25.9

101

7.7

6.0- 9.9

Charlotte

1,066

1.4

0.7- 2.6

326

30.2

26.7-34.0

358

31.5

28.2-35.0

290

31.0

27.4-34.8

6.0

4.5- 7.9

Greensboro

918

1.2

0.6- 2.3

281

32.9

28.7-37.4

253

27.2

23.2-31.5

283

30.8

26.9-35.0

8.0

6.2-10.2

Southern Regional

613

0.9

0.3- 2.1

228

39.0

33.2-45.2

191

31.8

25.9-38.3

137

21.0

16.6-26.3

7.3

5.2-10.3

Coastal

408

0.6

0.1- 2.8

26.3

21.3-32.0

124

32.0

26.8-37.8

130

30.6

25.7-36.0

10.4

7.5-14.3

Wake

1,065

1.0

0.5- 2.1

324

31.1

27.6-34.9

338

32.7

29.1-36.5

309

28.7

25.3-32.4

6.5

5.0- 8.3

Area L

210

0.8

0.2- 3.1

37.9

29.7-46.9

31.3

23.6-40.1

23.1

17.0-30.5

7.0

4.0-11.9

Eastern

786

0.7

0.3- 1.8

272

36.5

32.2-41.1

232

30.9

26.8-35.3

204

24.9

21.4-28.7

7.0

5.4- 9.2

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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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