2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Social Determinants and Health Equity

During the past 12 months has a lack of reliable transportation kept you from medical appointments, meetings, work, or from getting things needed for daily living?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,546 238 7.8 6.5- 9.4 3,308 92.2 90.6-93.5
Medicaid Region 4 870 57 7.1 5.3- 9.6 813 92.9 90.4-94.7
GENDER
Male 405 26 7.1 4.5-11.0 379 92.9 89.0-95.5
Female 465 31 7.2 4.8-10.6 434 92.8 89.4-95.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 509 22 4.3 2.7- 6.6 487 95.7 93.4-97.3
Non-Hispanic Black 188 18 11.2 6.7-18.0 170 88.8 82.0-93.3
Other 155 15 8.2 4.8-13.9 140 91.8 86.1-95.2
AGE
18-44 368 35 10.4 7.1-15.1 333 89.6 84.9-92.9
45-64 305 14 5.0 2.8- 8.9 291 95.0 91.1-97.2
65+ 181 *** *** *** 173 95.8 91.4-98.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 224 30 14.0 9.3-20.5 194 86.0 79.5-90.7
Some Post-H.S. 213 18 5.9 3.5- 9.7 195 94.1 90.3-96.5
College Graduate 429 *** *** *** 421 98.1 95.9-99.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 231 34 15.1 10.3-21.6 197 84.9 78.4-89.7
$50,000+ 446 11 2.6 1.3- 5.0 435 97.4 95.0-98.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 193 12 7.0 3.6-13.3 181 93.0 86.7-96.4

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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