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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 5 | 393 | 231 | 55.1 | 49.3-60.9 | 90 | 26.4 | 21.4-32.1 | 37 | 9.7 | 6.8-13.7 | 35 | 8.7 | 6.0-12.4 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 179 | 87 | 44.2 | 36.2-52.6 | 49 | 31.4 | 23.9-40.0 | 18 | 11.6 | 7.0-18.8 | 25 | 12.7 | 8.3-19.0 |
| Female | 214 | 144 | 64.7 | 56.7-72.1 | 41 | 22.0 | 15.7-29.9 | 19 | 8.1 | 5.0-12.8 | *** | *** | *** |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 228 | 107 | 44.8 | 37.6-52.2 | 66 | 31.4 | 24.8-38.9 | 30 | 14.3 | 9.7-20.6 | 25 | 9.5 | 6.2-14.3 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 76 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 83 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 137 | 92 | 65.1 | 55.7-73.5 | 27 | 20.9 | 14.2-29.6 | 12 | 9.1 | 5.0-16.0 | *** | *** | *** |
| 45-64 | 130 | 72 | 48.1 | 38.1-58.1 | 36 | 35.9 | 26.2-46.8 | 11 | 8.2 | 4.4-14.8 | 11 | 7.9 | 4.2-14.3 |
| 65+ | 123 | *** | *** | *** | 27 | 24.4 | 16.1-35.1 | 14 | 13.0 | 7.0-22.9 | 18 | 15.5 | 9.1-25.1 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 141 | 100 | 62.6 | 52.6-71.6 | 24 | 24.1 | 16.3-34.1 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Some Post-H.S. | 112 | *** | *** | *** | 27 | 27.8 | 19.0-38.6 | *** | *** | *** | 13 | 12.4 | 6.9-21.3 |
| College Graduate | 140 | 68 | 46.4 | 37.3-55.8 | 39 | 28.2 | 20.7-37.1 | 18 | 14.3 | 8.7-22.7 | 15 | 11.1 | 6.4-18.6 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 128 | 88 | 66.0 | 55.4-75.1 | 21 | 19.1 | 12.0-29.1 | *** | *** | *** | 11 | 9.1 | 4.7-17.2 |
| $50,000+ | 183 | 79 | 41.2 | 33.4-49.6 | 60 | 35.7 | 28.0-44.3 | 24 | 13.1 | 8.6-19.6 | 20 | 9.9 | 6.1-15.7 |
| Don't know/Not sure or Refused | 82 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
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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