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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 3 | 615 | 422 | 64.7 | 60.0-69.1 | 117 | 20.8 | 17.2-24.9 | 40 | 8.6 | 6.1-12.1 | 36 | 5.9 | 4.1- 8.3 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 282 | 181 | 58.7 | 51.8-65.3 | 60 | 24.8 | 19.2-31.4 | 21 | 9.5 | 6.1-14.6 | 20 | 7.0 | 4.4-11.0 |
| Female | 333 | 241 | 70.1 | 63.7-75.8 | 57 | 17.2 | 13.0-22.3 | 19 | 7.8 | 4.6-13.2 | 16 | 4.9 | 2.8- 8.3 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 346 | 201 | 54.2 | 48.0-60.3 | 86 | 26.4 | 21.3-32.2 | 31 | 11.7 | 7.9-17.0 | 28 | 7.6 | 5.1-11.4 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 128 | 92 | 70.2 | 60.1-78.6 | 22 | 17.6 | 11.2-26.6 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 139 | 127 | 91.3 | 84.3-95.3 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 225 | 167 | 70.5 | 63.1-77.0 | 39 | 19.6 | 14.2-26.5 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| 45-64 | 208 | 130 | 56.8 | 48.8-64.5 | 45 | 24.8 | 18.5-32.4 | 15 | 9.3 | 5.3-15.7 | 18 | 9.1 | 5.7-14.4 |
| 65+ | 168 | 112 | 62.4 | 52.5-71.4 | 32 | 18.7 | 12.7-26.7 | 15 | 13.8 | 7.5-24.0 | *** | *** | *** |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 189 | 141 | 67.9 | 58.9-75.8 | 28 | 18.6 | 12.5-26.6 | 15 | 11.1 | 6.3-18.9 | *** | *** | *** |
| Some Post-H.S. | 166 | 116 | 65.4 | 56.7-73.1 | 25 | 16.9 | 11.4-24.3 | 11 | 8.5 | 4.5-15.4 | 14 | 9.2 | 5.4-15.4 |
| College Graduate | 258 | 164 | 60.4 | 53.5-67.0 | 63 | 26.8 | 21.0-33.4 | 14 | 6.2 | 3.6-10.5 | 17 | 6.6 | 4.0-10.9 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 179 | 135 | 69.6 | 60.4-77.4 | 21 | 14.3 | 8.7-22.5 | 13 | 8.9 | 4.9-15.8 | *** | *** | *** |
| $50,000+ | 292 | 175 | 57.1 | 50.6-63.5 | 76 | 26.8 | 21.4-32.9 | 21 | 9.5 | 6.0-14.6 | 20 | 6.6 | 4.1-10.4 |
| Don't know/Not sure or Refused | 144 | 112 | 73.5 | 63.2-81.7 | 20 | 17.0 | 10.7-25.9 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
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 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.
***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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