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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 | 3,105 | 1,958 | 60.2 | 58.1-62.3 | 670 | 22.6 | 20.8-24.4 | 248 | 9.5 | 8.2-10.9 | 229 | 7.7 | 6.7- 8.9 |
| Medicaid Region 2 | 465 | 272 | 55.2 | 49.6-60.7 | 113 | 25.9 | 21.2-31.1 | 41 | 10.2 | 7.1-14.5 | 39 | 8.7 | 6.1-12.4 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 196 | 110 | 52.6 | 44.4-60.6 | 46 | 26.7 | 20.0-34.8 | 18 | 9.2 | 5.5-15.0 | 22 | 11.5 | 7.1-18.1 |
| Female | 269 | 162 | 57.3 | 49.7-64.7 | 67 | 25.2 | 19.2-32.3 | 23 | 11.0 | 6.7-17.6 | 17 | 6.5 | 3.7-11.1 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 303 | 148 | 47.1 | 40.3-54.0 | 92 | 30.7 | 24.9-37.2 | 33 | 12.8 | 8.6-18.8 | 30 | 9.3 | 6.1-14.0 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 76 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 85 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 146 | 97 | 61.3 | 51.4-70.4 | 34 | 25.9 | 18.2-35.4 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| 45-64 | 161 | 85 | 46.2 | 37.6-55.1 | 40 | 26.6 | 19.2-35.5 | 22 | 15.6 | 9.7-23.9 | 14 | 11.6 | 6.7-19.5 |
| 65+ | 151 | 86 | 57.8 | 47.6-67.4 | 38 | 25.4 | 17.6-35.1 | *** | *** | *** | 17 | 10.0 | 5.4-17.9 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 160 | 109 | 59.1 | 49.3-68.2 | 30 | 22.3 | 15.2-31.4 | 14 | 12.4 | 7.0-21.1 | *** | *** | *** |
| Some Post-H.S. | 125 | *** | *** | *** | 35 | 31.1 | 22.3-41.5 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| College Graduate | 178 | 90 | 51.1 | 42.5-59.6 | 48 | 24.6 | 18.3-32.2 | 19 | 12.5 | 7.5-20.2 | 21 | 11.8 | 7.3-18.6 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 155 | 94 | 54.6 | 44.8-64.0 | 39 | 27.2 | 19.4-36.6 | 11 | 9.2 | 4.3-18.7 | 11 | 9.0 | 4.6-16.9 |
| $50,000+ | 190 | 92 | 46.6 | 38.1-55.4 | 54 | 29.9 | 22.5-38.6 | 26 | 14.2 | 9.1-21.5 | 18 | 9.3 | 5.5-15.2 |
| Don't know/Not sure or Refused | 120 | 86 | 71.5 | 60.9-80.2 | 20 | 16.8 | 10.3-26.3 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
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 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.
***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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