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| Total Respond.^ |
No Gun(s) in home | Gun(s) not loaded | Gun(s) loaded but locked | Gun(s) Loaded and unlocked | |||||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 3,697 | 2,224 | 58.8 | 56.8-60.8 | 812 | 22.6 | 21.0-24.3 | 294 | 8.8 | 7.7-10.0 | 367 | 9.9 | 8.7-11.2 |
| Medicaid Region 2 | 609 | 342 | 56.2 | 51.4-60.8 | 135 | 22.3 | 18.6-26.6 | 57 | 9.1 | 6.8-12.0 | 75 | 12.4 | 9.6-15.9 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 279 | 133 | 47.8 | 40.8-54.9 | 68 | 24.5 | 19.2-30.7 | 31 | 12.0 | 8.2-17.3 | 47 | 15.7 | 11.5-21.2 |
| Female | 330 | 209 | 63.4 | 56.8-69.6 | 67 | 20.5 | 15.5-26.5 | 26 | 6.6 | 4.3- 9.9 | 28 | 9.5 | 6.2-14.3 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 431 | 211 | 47.5 | 42.1-52.9 | 112 | 26.4 | 21.8-31.6 | 44 | 10.1 | 7.3-13.7 | 64 | 16.0 | 12.3-20.6 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 103 | 69 | 69.1 | 58.0-78.3 | 16 | 15.7 | 9.1-25.6 | 11 | 10.5 | 5.4-19.4 | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 67 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 208 | 120 | 57.8 | 49.3-65.8 | 47 | 23.3 | 16.9-31.2 | 25 | 10.6 | 6.9-16.1 | 16 | 8.3 | 4.5-14.8 |
| 45-64 | 209 | 116 | 53.0 | 44.7-61.1 | 48 | 23.8 | 17.8-31.1 | 16 | 8.5 | 4.9-14.4 | 29 | 14.7 | 10.0-21.0 |
| 65+ | 185 | 103 | 59.5 | 51.2-67.2 | 37 | 17.0 | 12.0-23.6 | 15 | 6.7 | 3.9-11.2 | 30 | 16.7 | 11.4-24.0 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 197 | 118 | 60.5 | 52.7-67.8 | 37 | 19.2 | 13.8-25.9 | 16 | 8.0 | 4.7-13.1 | 26 | 12.4 | 8.0-18.7 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 184 | 90 | 51.2 | 42.3-60.0 | 48 | 26.5 | 19.3-35.1 | 17 | 8.4 | 5.0-13.9 | 29 | 13.9 | 9.2-20.5 |
| College Graduate | 228 | 134 | 56.7 | 49.3-63.8 | 50 | 21.2 | 16.1-27.5 | 24 | 12.0 | 7.8-18.0 | 20 | 10.0 | 6.3-15.7 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 229 | 143 | 63.2 | 55.4-70.3 | 40 | 19.4 | 13.7-26.7 | 24 | 9.6 | 6.1-14.6 | 22 | 7.9 | 4.7-12.8 |
| $50,000+ | 258 | 120 | 44.4 | 37.5-51.5 | 71 | 27.7 | 22.0-34.3 | 30 | 12.3 | 8.4-17.9 | 37 | 15.5 | 11.0-21.4 |
| Don't know/Not sure or Refused | 122 | *** | *** | *** | 24 | 18.7 | 11.3-29.4 | *** | *** | *** | 16 | 15.4 | 8.8-25.4 |
Data in this table were derived from the Firearm Safety questions.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.
***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.
^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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.
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