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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 4 | 792 | 538 | 66.0 | 62.0-69.7 | 154 | 20.2 | 17.1-23.6 | 46 | 6.9 | 5.0- 9.4 | 54 | 7.0 | 5.1- 9.6 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 375 | 241 | 62.2 | 56.3-67.7 | 71 | 19.2 | 15.0-24.2 | 26 | 9.1 | 5.9-13.7 | 37 | 9.5 | 6.6-13.5 |
| Female | 417 | 297 | 69.3 | 63.8-74.3 | 83 | 21.0 | 16.8-25.9 | 20 | 4.9 | 3.0- 7.9 | 17 | 4.8 | 2.5- 8.8 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 463 | 276 | 57.4 | 52.1-62.5 | 115 | 25.9 | 21.6-30.8 | 35 | 8.1 | 5.6-11.6 | 37 | 8.6 | 5.8-12.5 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 170 | 124 | 71.3 | 62.7-78.6 | 28 | 16.1 | 10.8-23.3 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 150 | 131 | 89.2 | 82.4-93.5 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 328 | 240 | 70.0 | 63.7-75.5 | 51 | 16.4 | 12.4-21.5 | 21 | 7.3 | 4.6-11.5 | 16 | 6.3 | 3.4-11.4 |
| 45-64 | 277 | 183 | 63.7 | 57.0-70.0 | 54 | 20.1 | 15.3-25.9 | 18 | 7.9 | 4.6-13.0 | 22 | 8.3 | 5.3-12.7 |
| 65+ | 176 | 108 | 60.3 | 51.3-68.7 | 49 | 30.5 | 22.8-39.6 | *** | *** | *** | 13 | 5.7 | 3.0-10.7 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 218 | 155 | 65.7 | 57.8-72.8 | 33 | 18.2 | 12.9-25.1 | 11 | 6.8 | 3.7-12.4 | 19 | 9.3 | 5.3-15.7 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 154 | 105 | 67.9 | 59.1-75.6 | 27 | 18.5 | 12.5-26.4 | 12 | 8.3 | 4.4-15.2 | *** | *** | *** |
| College Graduate | 416 | 276 | 65.3 | 60.1-70.2 | 92 | 22.4 | 18.3-27.0 | 23 | 6.1 | 3.9- 9.2 | 25 | 6.2 | 4.0- 9.6 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 253 | 188 | 70.9 | 63.3-77.5 | 44 | 17.4 | 12.5-23.7 | 11 | 6.0 | 3.0-11.5 | *** | *** | *** |
| $50,000+ | 405 | 246 | 60.0 | 54.5-65.2 | 93 | 23.4 | 19.0-28.3 | 33 | 8.8 | 6.1-12.7 | 33 | 7.9 | 5.4-11.3 |
| Don't know/Not sure or Refused | 134 | 104 | 75.1 | 65.3-82.9 | 17 | 15.6 | 9.4-24.8 | *** | *** | *** | 11 | 6.8 | 3.3-13.6 |
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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