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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 1 | 465 | 255 | 47.8 | 42.1-53.5 | 124 | 28.0 | 23.2-33.4 | 41 | 12.4 | 8.7-17.4 | 45 | 11.8 | 8.5-16.1 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 203 | 88 | 39.9 | 32.1-48.2 | 60 | 28.0 | 21.5-35.7 | 26 | 15.6 | 10.1-23.2 | 29 | 16.5 | 11.1-23.9 |
| Female | 262 | 167 | 54.8 | 46.7-62.7 | 64 | 28.0 | 21.2-35.9 | 15 | 9.7 | 5.3-17.0 | 16 | 7.6 | 4.3-13.0 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 385 | 191 | 43.1 | 37.0-49.4 | 115 | 31.5 | 26.0-37.6 | 35 | 12.2 | 8.3-17.5 | 44 | 13.2 | 9.5-18.0 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 26 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| Other | 49 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 112 | *** | *** | *** | 22 | 21.5 | 13.4-32.6 | 11 | 13.1 | 6.9-23.5 | *** | *** | *** |
| 45-64 | 150 | 63 | 32.3 | 24.9-40.7 | 55 | 40.1 | 31.4-49.4 | 17 | 15.9 | 9.5-25.3 | 15 | 11.8 | 6.8-19.7 |
| 65+ | 197 | 114 | 51.9 | 42.6-61.0 | 46 | 23.3 | 16.9-31.4 | 13 | 8.3 | 4.0-16.3 | 24 | 16.5 | 10.6-24.7 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 136 | *** | *** | *** | 27 | 21.6 | 13.8-32.2 | 15 | 15.5 | 9.0-25.4 | 14 | 13.6 | 7.8-22.7 |
| Some Post-H.S. | 139 | 68 | 42.6 | 33.2-52.6 | 39 | 28.7 | 20.6-38.5 | 16 | 15.4 | 8.9-25.3 | 16 | 13.3 | 7.9-21.5 |
| College Graduate | 189 | 107 | 52.7 | 44.4-60.8 | 57 | 34.7 | 27.3-43.0 | *** | *** | *** | 15 | 7.6 | 4.3-13.3 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 168 | 106 | 57.8 | 48.1-67.0 | 32 | 19.7 | 13.4-28.0 | 17 | 13.9 | 7.9-23.3 | 13 | 8.6 | 4.6-15.5 |
| $50,000+ | 184 | 80 | 40.0 | 32.2-48.4 | 66 | 34.3 | 27.0-42.4 | 17 | 11.8 | 6.9-19.3 | 21 | 13.9 | 8.6-21.6 |
| Don't know/Not sure or Refused | 113 | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | 11 | 12.6 | 6.4-23.2 |
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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