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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 5 | 914 | 516 | 54.3 | 50.2-58.3 | 212 | 25.0 | 21.5-28.8 | 80 | 9.9 | 7.5-13.0 | 106 | 10.8 | 8.5-13.7 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 374 | 183 | 45.0 | 38.8-51.3 | 95 | 27.8 | 22.4-34.0 | 36 | 11.6 | 7.5-17.3 | 60 | 15.6 | 11.5-20.9 |
| Female | 540 | 333 | 61.8 | 56.4-66.9 | 117 | 22.7 | 18.4-27.7 | 44 | 8.6 | 5.9-12.2 | 46 | 6.9 | 4.7-10.2 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 480 | 233 | 44.6 | 39.3-50.0 | 135 | 30.1 | 25.3-35.3 | 47 | 12.4 | 8.8-17.2 | 65 | 12.9 | 9.7-17.0 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 230 | 156 | 67.2 | 58.9-74.5 | 42 | 17.7 | 12.2-25.1 | 13 | 4.3 | 2.3- 8.1 | 19 | 10.8 | 6.3-17.7 |
| Other | 198 | 123 | 68.5 | 58.7-76.9 | 34 | 18.6 | 11.7-28.3 | 19 | 8.7 | 4.4-16.6 | 22 | 4.1 | 2.1- 7.9 |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 268 | 161 | 56.3 | 49.0-63.2 | 64 | 26.3 | 20.5-33.1 | 27 | 11.5 | 7.3-17.8 | 16 | 5.9 | 3.4-10.0 |
| 45-64 | 292 | 166 | 52.5 | 45.5-59.4 | 65 | 26.3 | 20.5-33.2 | 22 | 6.1 | 3.6-10.2 | 39 | 15.1 | 10.2-21.7 |
| 65+ | 339 | 179 | 52.4 | 45.8-59.0 | 82 | 21.4 | 16.6-27.1 | 31 | 12.4 | 8.4-18.0 | 47 | 13.8 | 9.8-19.0 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 344 | 217 | 58.0 | 51.0-64.7 | 75 | 25.8 | 20.1-32.5 | 21 | 8.3 | 4.6-14.5 | 31 | 7.9 | 5.0-12.3 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 270 | 144 | 51.1 | 43.9-58.3 | 59 | 23.3 | 17.8-29.9 | 28 | 11.8 | 8.0-17.2 | 39 | 13.8 | 9.4-19.8 |
| College Graduate | 299 | 154 | 52.8 | 46.0-59.4 | 78 | 26.4 | 21.0-32.7 | 31 | 9.5 | 6.2-14.4 | 36 | 11.2 | 7.7-16.1 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 372 | 234 | 63.1 | 56.7-69.1 | 70 | 18.7 | 14.1-24.3 | 28 | 8.3 | 5.3-12.7 | 40 | 9.9 | 6.7-14.5 |
| $50,000+ | 335 | 143 | 40.1 | 33.8-46.7 | 105 | 33.7 | 27.6-40.4 | 40 | 13.5 | 8.9-19.9 | 47 | 12.7 | 8.8-17.9 |
| Don't know/Not sure or Refused | 207 | 139 | 65.2 | 56.2-73.2 | 37 | 19.8 | 13.5-28.1 | 12 | 6.0 | 3.2-11.2 | 19 | 9.0 | 4.9-15.8 |
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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