2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of health care coverage, including health insurance, prepaid plans such as HMOs,
or government plans such as Medicare, or Indian Health Service?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,822 4,338 89.7 88.6-90.7 484 10.3 9.3-11.4
Region 5 655 588 89.8 86.9-92.2 67 10.2 7.8-13.1
GENDER
Male 312 272 87.0 81.9-90.8 40 13.0 9.2-18.1
Female 343 316 92.4 88.7-94.9 27 7.6 5.1-11.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 403 383 94.8 91.7-96.8 20 5.2 3.2- 8.3
Non-Hispanic Black 139 128 89.9 81.0-94.9 11 10.1 5.1-19.0
Other 102 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 263 219 83.9 78.3-88.3 44 16.1 11.7-21.7
45-64 212 190 91.3 86.3-94.5 22 8.7 5.5-13.7
65+ 166 165 99.1 93.6-99.9 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 175 129 79.3 72.3-84.9 46 20.7 15.1-27.7
Some Post-H.S. 157 144 93.6 87.9-96.7 13 6.4 3.3-12.1
College Graduate 323 315 96.9 93.9-98.4 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 237 190 80.7 74.5-85.7 47 19.3 14.3-25.5
$50,000+ 288 284 98.9 96.9-99.6 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 128 112 87.4 78.6-93.0 16 12.6 7.0-21.4

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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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