2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Housing Insecurity

During the past 12 months, was there a time when you were not able to pay your utility bills?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,055 309 7.6 6.6- 8.8 3,746 92.4 91.2-93.4
Medicaid Region 5 1,014 98 9.3 7.3-11.8 916 90.7 88.2-92.7
GENDER
Male 433 41 8.1 5.5-11.8 392 91.9 88.2-94.5
Female 581 57 10.4 7.5-14.1 524 89.6 85.9-92.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 556 22 4.7 2.9- 7.7 534 95.3 92.3-97.1
Non-Hispanic Black 239 39 15.5 10.7-21.9 200 84.5 78.1-89.3
Other 211 37 18.3 11.9-27.1 174 81.7 72.9-88.1
AGE
18-44 286 45 13.3 9.3-18.6 241 86.7 81.4-90.7
45-64 324 36 9.1 6.2-13.2 288 90.9 86.8-93.8
65+ 384 17 3.6 2.0- 6.6 367 96.4 93.4-98.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 371 52 12.0 8.6-16.5 319 88.0 83.5-91.4
Some Post-H.S. 300 32 9.6 6.2-14.4 268 90.4 85.6-93.8
College Graduate 342 14 4.2 2.1- 8.2 328 95.8 91.8-97.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 399 69 16.7 12.5-22.0 330 83.3 78.0-87.5
$50,000+ 381 *** *** *** 375 99.0 97.7-99.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 234 23 12.2 7.5-19.2 211 87.8 80.8-92.5

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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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