2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 547 48 8.6 6.2-11.9 499 91.4 88.1-93.8
GENDER
Male 232 16 7.1 4.2-11.6 216 92.9 88.4-95.8
Female 315 32 10.1 6.7-15.0 283 89.9 85.0-93.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 331 20 6.7 4.0-10.8 311 93.3 89.2-96.0
Non-Hispanic Black 133 18 10.8 6.2-18.0 115 89.2 82.0-93.8
Other 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 165 15 9.9 5.6-16.9 150 90.1 83.1-94.4
45-64 191 21 9.8 6.2-15.1 170 90.2 84.9-93.8
65+ 178 12 5.7 3.1-10.0 166 94.3 90.0-96.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 196 18 8.2 4.7-13.7 178 91.8 86.3-95.3
Some Post-H.S. 147 21 12.3 7.5-19.5 126 87.7 80.5-92.5
College Graduate 198 *** *** *** 189 95.7 91.5-97.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 201 35 16.3 11.1-23.3 166 83.7 76.7-88.9
$50,000+ 207 *** *** *** 202 97.6 93.9-99.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 139 *** *** *** 131 94.1 86.7-97.5

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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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