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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 |
| Region 8 | 626 | 370 | 57.3 | 52.2-62.3 | 129 | 22.2 | 18.0-27.0 | 57 | 11.4 | 8.3-15.5 | 70 | 9.0 | 6.6-12.2 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 249 | 129 | 47.4 | 39.9-55.0 | 54 | 25.0 | 18.7-32.7 | 27 | 14.1 | 9.1-21.2 | 39 | 13.5 | 9.2-19.3 |
| Female | 377 | 241 | 66.0 | 59.0-72.3 | 75 | 19.7 | 14.6-26.2 | 30 | 9.1 | 5.8-14.0 | 31 | 5.2 | 3.0- 8.7 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 343 | 182 | 48.6 | 42.2-55.1 | 83 | 26.8 | 21.2-33.2 | 36 | 14.6 | 10.2-20.3 | 42 | 10.1 | 7.0-14.3 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 127 | 88 | 74.7 | 63.8-83.2 | 22 | 11.1 | 6.2-18.9 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 151 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | 13 | 4.0 | 2.0- 8.2 | 17 | 4.2 | 1.7-10.4 |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 166 | 105 | 58.5 | 49.4-67.1 | 31 | 22.1 | 15.2-30.8 | 21 | 14.2 | 8.8-22.0 | *** | *** | *** |
| 45-64 | 207 | 128 | 58.0 | 49.3-66.2 | 35 | 21.3 | 14.7-29.8 | 17 | 8.7 | 4.7-15.6 | 27 | 12.0 | 7.5-18.8 |
| 65+ | 240 | 129 | 54.0 | 45.5-62.2 | 62 | 24.1 | 17.5-32.2 | 19 | 10.7 | 6.3-17.6 | 30 | 11.2 | 7.1-17.2 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 238 | 152 | 61.3 | 52.7-69.2 | 47 | 23.4 | 16.6-32.0 | 18 | 9.3 | 5.2-16.2 | 21 | 6.0 | 3.3-10.7 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 172 | 96 | 51.8 | 42.7-60.8 | 34 | 22.4 | 15.5-31.4 | 17 | 13.3 | 8.0-21.2 | 25 | 12.5 | 7.7-19.7 |
| College Graduate | 215 | 121 | 58.7 | 50.1-66.8 | 48 | 19.8 | 14.1-27.1 | 22 | 12.3 | 7.1-20.5 | 24 | 9.2 | 5.6-14.8 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 260 | 173 | 66.0 | 57.7-73.4 | 46 | 19.1 | 13.1-27.0 | 18 | 7.5 | 4.2-12.9 | 23 | 7.4 | 4.2-12.7 |
| $50,000+ | 223 | 103 | 46.3 | 38.0-54.8 | 57 | 25.8 | 18.9-34.1 | 30 | 16.0 | 10.4-23.8 | 33 | 11.9 | 7.7-18.1 |
| Don't know/Not Sure | 143 | *** | *** | *** | 26 | 20.5 | 12.7-31.3 | *** | *** | *** | 14 | 6.1 | 3.1-11.7 |
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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