BRFSS 2005 - North Carolina Counties and Regions: (Considering all types of alcoholic beverages, how many times during the past 30 days did you have 5 or more drinks on an occasion?*)

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Alcohol Consumption"

Considering all types of alcoholic beverages, how many times during the past 30 days did you have 5 or more drinks on an occasion?*

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	Total Respond.^	None	Once	Twice	3-7 times	8-30 times
North Carolina	6,536	5,206	74.9	73.3-76.4	582	10.3	9.4-11.4	297	5.8	5.0- 6.7	312	6.2	5.4- 7.2	139	2.8	2.2- 3.5
COUNTY/REGIONS***
Alamance	165	133	78.8	69.4-85.8	15	9.4	5.4-15.9	5	2.5	0.9- 6.3	10	8.0	3.4-17.7	2	1.3	0.3- 5.2
Buncombe	200	174	81.8	73.5-87.9	16	9.8	5.8-16.1	4	2.7	1.0- 7.5	5	3.6	1.4- 9.3	1	2.0	0.3-13.1
Cabarrus	164	118	64.6	54.1-73.9	25	17.1	10.8-26.1	8	6.4	2.3-16.2	7	4.1	1.8- 8.8	6	7.8	3.0-19.0
Catawba	157	132	73.5	61.8-82.6	14	15.7	8.3-27.7	5	6.5	2.6-15.4	2	1.2	0.3- 4.9	4	3.1	1.0- 9.9
Cumberland	181	147	76.4	66.3-84.2	20	14.9	8.2-25.5	8	5.4	2.6-10.9	3	1.9	0.6- 5.9	3	1.4	0.4- 4.6
Davidson	147	107	62.0	50.6-72.2	13	19.3	10.9-31.7	7	5.7	1.9-15.7	8	5.8	2.2-14.6	12	7.2	3.8-13.3
Durham	220	172	73.1	65.2-79.8	25	12.4	8.1-18.5	10	6.1	3.0-12.0	11	7.3	3.9-13.2	2	1.1	0.2- 4.5
Forsyth	205	171	80.4	71.3-87.1	11	7.2	3.1-15.8	11	7.2	3.4-14.9	9	4.1	2.1- 8.1	3	1.1	0.3- 4.0
Gaston	140	103	64.6	51.3-75.9	17	11.2	6.6-18.5	8	7.9	3.4-17.4	7	5.0	2.3-10.6	5	11.3	3.2-32.8
Guilford	210	172	73.6	64.1-81.3	16	9.1	5.1-15.9	12	7.7	3.8-14.8	8	7.2	3.1-16.1	2	2.3	0.4-11.5
Iredell	165	121	67.8	58.3-75.9	20	12.9	7.8-20.5	9	5.7	2.8-11.0	11	9.0	4.7-16.3	4	4.7	1.5-13.6
Johnston	126	98	65.7	52.5-76.9	12	12.3	6.4-22.3	5	7.4	1.9-25.3	7	10.5	4.3-23.5	4	4.0	1.4-11.0
Mecklenburg	480	402	79.3	73.8-83.9	39	9.8	6.7-14.1	16	3.4	2.0- 5.8	18	5.6	3.1-10.0	5	1.9	0.7- 5.4
New Hanover	241	206	78.8	71.4-84.7	16	9.9	5.8-16.3	9	5.6	2.8-10.8	8	4.8	2.4- 9.3	2	0.9	0.2- 4.6
Onslow	157	118	65.3	54.0-75.2	15	12.1	7.0-20.3	12	13.0	6.4-24.8	10	8.4	4.0-16.7	2	1.1	0.2- 4.5
Orange	266	219	76.2	68.6-82.4	25	12.1	7.9-18.2	8	5.4	2.4-11.8	8	2.8	1.2- 6.4	6	3.5	1.5- 8.1
Pitt	155	122	77.4	68.4-84.4	10	8.5	4.0-17.2	10	5.7	2.9-11.0	10	6.2	3.0-12.3	3	2.2	0.7- 6.8
Randolph	118	91	72.5	61.8-81.1	6	6.0	2.5-13.9	9	8.2	4.0-16.1	6	7.3	3.2-16.0	6	6.0	2.4-13.8
Robeson	108	79	66.0	53.8-76.5	11	9.2	4.9-16.7	4	7.8	2.7-20.4	12	14.8	7.8-26.3	2	2.2	0.5- 8.2
Rowan	141	116	78.4	67.6-86.3	17	13.6	7.4-23.8	2	1.2	0.3- 5.1	3	3.5	1.0-11.9	3	3.3	1.1- 9.8
Union	138	109	74.3	64.7-82.0	19	17.3	10.9-26.4	4	2.7	0.9- 7.4	4	3.8	1.4-10.0	2	1.9	0.5- 7.4
Wake	478	385	77.7	72.7-82.1	38	9.2	6.4-13.1	24	5.4	3.4- 8.5	24	6.5	4.1-10.1	7	1.1	0.5- 2.6
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	221	159	63.9	55.3-71.8	27	16.4	10.3-25.1	16	8.4	4.9-13.9	16	9.6	5.5-16.2	3	1.7	0.5- 5.3
Northeast Partnership II	154	127	82.0	73.3-88.3	10	5.4	2.5-11.5	5	3.4	1.3- 8.3	11	8.9	4.5-16.6	1	0.4	0.1- 2.5
Northeast Partnership I	143	106	71.0	61.0-79.3	17	12.9	7.7-20.9	6	4.8	2.1-10.6	9	7.8	3.8-15.3	5	3.6	1.4- 9.0
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	137	109	74.2	63.8-82.4	7	6.8	2.9-15.1	9	9.6	4.6-19.0	8	5.7	2.6-11.7	4	3.7	1.2-11.0
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	143	113	78.0	66.5-86.3	12	7.8	3.9-14.7	6	4.3	1.6-10.9	9	4.2	1.9- 9.0	3	5.8	1.4-20.8
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	166	132	78.2	70.0-84.6	14	6.6	3.7-11.5	8	6.2	3.0-12.4	11	8.7	4.6-15.7	1	0.4	0.1- 2.7
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	143	115	77.3	67.5-84.8	9	7.0	3.4-14.0	8	4.1	2.0- 8.5	6	7.7	3.2-17.2	5	3.9	1.5- 9.5
Chatham/Lee/Moore	234	198	81.2	73.8-86.9	15	7.3	4.0-12.9	9	5.1	2.4-10.5	6	3.6	1.3- 9.6	6	2.8	1.2- 6.5
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	190	139	67.1	56.4-76.2	17	9.1	5.1-15.8	12	9.0	4.8-16.3	12	6.1	3.2-11.6	10	8.7	3.6-19.4
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	130	104	77.0	65.6-85.5	11	9.9	4.8-19.3	5	7.4	2.4-20.3	6	3.5	1.5- 8.2	4	2.2	0.8- 6.0
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	120	96	62.4	47.8-75.1	8	12.8	6.0-25.1	7	9.5	3.7-22.2	8	14.9	5.6-34.0	1	0.4	0.1- 3.0
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	145	110	72.7	63.3-80.4	17	15.0	9.1-23.9	5	3.7	1.5- 8.9	9	5.2	2.4-10.9	4	3.4	1.2- 8.8
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	248	203	76.6	67.4-83.8	18	5.5	3.0- 9.9	11	5.3	2.3-11.8	10	8.1	3.7-16.9	6	4.4	1.5-12.7
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**
Yes	376	282	70.6	64.3-76.2	35	8.9	6.0-12.9	19	6.2	3.7-10.0	31	11.8	7.9-17.3	9	2.6	1.2- 5.3
No	6,160	4,924	75.1	73.5-76.6	547	10.4	9.4-11.6	278	5.8	5.0- 6.7	281	5.9	5.1- 6.9	130	2.8	2.2- 3.6
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	1,959	1,527	73.1	70.2-75.8	177	10.7	8.8-12.8	99	6.7	5.2- 8.4	118	7.0	5.7- 8.7	38	2.6	1.5- 4.3
Piedmont	3,917	3,134	75.4	73.4-77.3	355	10.7	9.4-12.2	172	5.4	4.5- 6.5	166	5.7	4.6- 6.9	90	2.8	2.1- 3.7
Western NC	660	545	76.1	70.8-80.7	50	8.0	5.8-10.9	26	5.8	3.4- 9.6	28	7.1	4.2-11.5	11	3.1	1.4- 6.7
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****
Mountain AHEC	448	377	78.7	72.3-83.9	34	7.2	4.9-10.6	15	4.3	2.2- 8.2	15	6.3	3.3-11.7	7	3.5	1.3- 8.8
Northwest	1,103	872	72.9	68.9-76.6	100	11.8	9.2-14.9	47	6.4	4.3- 9.4	52	5.9	4.1- 8.6	32	3.0	2.0- 4.4
Charlotte	1,045	824	74.1	70.2-77.7	113	12.1	9.7-15.1	43	4.6	3.3- 6.5	44	5.3	3.5- 7.8	21	3.9	2.2- 6.7
Greensboro	907	740	75.9	71.3-80.0	69	9.1	6.6-12.3	38	6.0	3.9- 9.0	37	6.0	3.7- 9.5	23	3.1	1.7- 5.6
Southern Regional	600	465	73.5	67.4-78.8	57	10.9	7.6-15.5	30	6.2	4.0- 9.5	31	4.8	3.2- 7.3	17	4.6	2.0-10.4
Coastal	406	336	78.5	73.2-83.0	30	8.2	5.5-12.0	16	5.7	3.4- 9.3	20	6.6	4.1-10.4	4	1.0	0.3- 3.0
Wake	1,050	840	76.2	72.6-79.5	90	9.7	7.6-12.3	50	5.6	3.9- 7.8	51	6.8	5.0- 9.4	19	1.7	1.0- 2.8
Area L	206	162	73.4	64.7-80.6	16	8.3	4.9-13.9	9	7.3	3.4-15.1	13	8.1	4.4-14.2	6	2.9	1.0- 8.4
Eastern	771	590	71.7	67.1-75.8	73	12.1	9.0-16.0	49	7.6	5.4-10.5	49	7.4	5.3-10.3	10	1.3	0.6- 2.5

Total
Respond.^

None

Once

Twice

3-7 times

8-30 times

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

6,536

5,206

74.9

73.3-76.4

582

10.3

9.4-11.4

297

5.8

5.0- 6.7

312

6.2

5.4- 7.2

139

2.8

2.2- 3.5

COUNTY/REGIONS***

Alamance

165

133

78.8

69.4-85.8

9.4

5.4-15.9

2.5

0.9- 6.3

8.0

3.4-17.7

1.3

0.3- 5.2

Buncombe

200

174

81.8

73.5-87.9

9.8

5.8-16.1

2.7

1.0- 7.5

3.6

1.4- 9.3

2.0

0.3-13.1

Cabarrus

164

118

64.6

54.1-73.9

17.1

10.8-26.1

6.4

2.3-16.2

4.1

1.8- 8.8

7.8

3.0-19.0

Catawba

157

132

73.5

61.8-82.6

15.7

8.3-27.7

6.5

2.6-15.4

1.2

0.3- 4.9

3.1

1.0- 9.9

Cumberland

181

147

76.4

66.3-84.2

14.9

8.2-25.5

5.4

2.6-10.9

1.9

0.6- 5.9

1.4

0.4- 4.6

Davidson

147

107

62.0

50.6-72.2

19.3

10.9-31.7

5.7

1.9-15.7

5.8

2.2-14.6

7.2

3.8-13.3

Durham

220

172

73.1

65.2-79.8

12.4

8.1-18.5

6.1

3.0-12.0

7.3

3.9-13.2

1.1

0.2- 4.5

Forsyth

205

171

80.4

71.3-87.1

7.2

3.1-15.8

7.2

3.4-14.9

4.1

2.1- 8.1

1.1

0.3- 4.0

Gaston

140

103

64.6

51.3-75.9

11.2

6.6-18.5

7.9

3.4-17.4

5.0

2.3-10.6

11.3

3.2-32.8

Guilford

210

172

73.6

64.1-81.3

9.1

5.1-15.9

7.7

3.8-14.8

7.2

3.1-16.1

2.3

0.4-11.5

Iredell

165

121

67.8

58.3-75.9

12.9

7.8-20.5

5.7

2.8-11.0

9.0

4.7-16.3

4.7

1.5-13.6

Johnston

126

65.7

52.5-76.9

12.3

6.4-22.3

7.4

1.9-25.3

10.5

4.3-23.5

4.0

1.4-11.0

Mecklenburg

480

402

79.3

73.8-83.9

9.8

6.7-14.1

3.4

2.0- 5.8

5.6

3.1-10.0

1.9

0.7- 5.4

New Hanover

241

206

78.8

71.4-84.7

9.9

5.8-16.3

5.6

2.8-10.8

4.8

2.4- 9.3

0.9

0.2- 4.6

Onslow

157

118

65.3

54.0-75.2

12.1

7.0-20.3

13.0

6.4-24.8

8.4

4.0-16.7

1.1

0.2- 4.5

Orange

266

219

76.2

68.6-82.4

12.1

7.9-18.2

5.4

2.4-11.8

2.8

1.2- 6.4

3.5

1.5- 8.1

Pitt

155

122

77.4

68.4-84.4

8.5

4.0-17.2

5.7

2.9-11.0

6.2

3.0-12.3

2.2

0.7- 6.8

Randolph

118

72.5

61.8-81.1

6.0

2.5-13.9

8.2

4.0-16.1

7.3

3.2-16.0

6.0

2.4-13.8

Robeson

108

66.0

53.8-76.5

9.2

4.9-16.7

7.8

2.7-20.4

14.8

7.8-26.3

2.2

0.5- 8.2

Rowan

141

116

78.4

67.6-86.3

13.6

7.4-23.8

1.2

0.3- 5.1

3.5

1.0-11.9

3.3

1.1- 9.8

Union

138

109

74.3

64.7-82.0

17.3

10.9-26.4

2.7

0.9- 7.4

3.8

1.4-10.0

1.9

0.5- 7.4

Wake

478

385

77.7

72.7-82.1

9.2

6.4-13.1

5.4

3.4- 8.5

6.5

4.1-10.1

1.1

0.5- 2.6

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

221

159

63.9

55.3-71.8

16.4

10.3-25.1

8.4

4.9-13.9

9.6

5.5-16.2

1.7

0.5- 5.3

Northeast Partnership II

154

127

82.0

73.3-88.3

5.4

2.5-11.5

3.4

1.3- 8.3

8.9

4.5-16.6

0.4

0.1- 2.5

Northeast Partnership I

143

106

71.0

61.0-79.3

12.9

7.7-20.9

4.8

2.1-10.6

7.8

3.8-15.3

3.6

1.4- 9.0

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

137

109

74.2

63.8-82.4

6.8

2.9-15.1

9.6

4.6-19.0

5.7

2.6-11.7

3.7

1.2-11.0

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

143

113

78.0

66.5-86.3

7.8

3.9-14.7

4.3

1.6-10.9

4.2

1.9- 9.0

5.8

1.4-20.8

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

166

132

78.2

70.0-84.6

6.6

3.7-11.5

6.2

3.0-12.4

8.7

4.6-15.7

0.4

0.1- 2.7

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

143

115

77.3

67.5-84.8

7.0

3.4-14.0

4.1

2.0- 8.5

7.7

3.2-17.2

3.9

1.5- 9.5

Chatham/Lee/Moore

234

198

81.2

73.8-86.9

7.3

4.0-12.9

5.1

2.4-10.5

3.6

1.3- 9.6

2.8

1.2- 6.5

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

190

139

67.1

56.4-76.2

9.1

5.1-15.8

9.0

4.8-16.3

6.1

3.2-11.6

8.7

3.6-19.4

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

130

104

77.0

65.6-85.5

9.9

4.8-19.3

7.4

2.4-20.3

3.5

1.5- 8.2

2.2

0.8- 6.0

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes

120

62.4

47.8-75.1

12.8

6.0-25.1

9.5

3.7-22.2

14.9

5.6-34.0

0.4

0.1- 3.0

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

145

110

72.7

63.3-80.4

15.0

9.1-23.9

3.7

1.5- 8.9

5.2

2.4-10.9

3.4

1.2- 8.8

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

248

203

76.6

67.4-83.8

5.5

3.0- 9.9

5.3

2.3-11.8

8.1

3.7-16.9

4.4

1.5-12.7

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP**

Yes

376

282

70.6

64.3-76.2

8.9

6.0-12.9

6.2

3.7-10.0

11.8

7.9-17.3

2.6

1.2- 5.3

6,160

4,924

75.1

73.5-76.6

547

10.4

9.4-11.6

278

5.8

5.0- 6.7

281

5.9

5.1- 6.9

130

2.8

2.2- 3.6

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

1,959

1,527

73.1

70.2-75.8

177

10.7

8.8-12.8

6.7

5.2- 8.4

118

7.0

5.7- 8.7

2.6

1.5- 4.3

Piedmont

3,917

3,134

75.4

73.4-77.3

355

10.7

9.4-12.2

172

5.4

4.5- 6.5

166

5.7

4.6- 6.9

2.8

2.1- 3.7

Western NC

660

545

76.1

70.8-80.7

8.0

5.8-10.9

5.8

3.4- 9.6

7.1

4.2-11.5

3.1

1.4- 6.7

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)****

Mountain AHEC

448

377

78.7

72.3-83.9

7.2

4.9-10.6

4.3

2.2- 8.2

6.3

3.3-11.7

3.5

1.3- 8.8

Northwest

1,103

872

72.9

68.9-76.6

100

11.8

9.2-14.9

6.4

4.3- 9.4

5.9

4.1- 8.6

3.0

2.0- 4.4

Charlotte

1,045

824

74.1

70.2-77.7

113

12.1

9.7-15.1

4.6

3.3- 6.5

5.3

3.5- 7.8

3.9

2.2- 6.7

Greensboro

907

740

75.9

71.3-80.0

9.1

6.6-12.3

6.0

3.9- 9.0

6.0

3.7- 9.5

3.1

1.7- 5.6

Southern Regional

600

465

73.5

67.4-78.8

10.9

7.6-15.5

6.2

4.0- 9.5

4.8

3.2- 7.3

4.6

2.0-10.4

Coastal

406

336

78.5

73.2-83.0

8.2

5.5-12.0

5.7

3.4- 9.3

6.6

4.1-10.4

1.0

0.3- 3.0

Wake

1,050

840

76.2

72.6-79.5

9.7

7.6-12.3

5.6

3.9- 7.8

6.8

5.0- 9.4

1.7

1.0- 2.8

Area L

206

162

73.4

64.7-80.6

8.3

4.9-13.9

7.3

3.4-15.1

8.1

4.4-14.2

2.9

1.0- 8.4

Eastern

771

590

71.7

67.1-75.8

12.1

9.0-16.0

7.6

5.4-10.5

7.4

5.3-10.3

1.3

0.6- 2.5

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* This question was 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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