2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because you could not afford it?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,316 469 11.3 10.2-12.5 3,847 88.7 87.5-89.8
Region 4 877 111 12.2 9.9-15.1 766 87.8 84.9-90.1
GENDER
Male 411 54 12.7 9.3-16.9 357 87.3 83.1-90.7
Female 466 57 11.8 8.7-15.9 409 88.2 84.1-91.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 493 39 9.0 6.4-12.7 454 91.0 87.3-93.6
Non-Hispanic Black 176 12 7.7 3.6-15.6 164 92.3 84.4-96.4
Other 199 58 27.4 20.9-35.1 141 72.6 64.9-79.1
AGE
18-44 367 71 17.3 13.4-22.2 296 82.7 77.8-86.6
45-64 281 33 10.8 7.0-16.5 248 89.2 83.5-93.0
65+ 207 *** *** *** 201 97.1 93.0-98.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 252 57 19.0 14.2-25.1 195 81.0 74.9-85.8
Some Post-H.S. 219 21 9.6 5.6-15.9 198 90.4 84.1-94.4
College Graduate 400 33 8.0 5.5-11.4 367 92.0 88.6-94.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 242 44 17.7 12.6-24.3 198 82.3 75.7-87.4
$50,000+ 425 38 8.8 6.2-12.4 387 91.2 87.6-93.8
Don't know/Not Sure 200 29 13.8 8.7-21.0 171 86.2 79.0-91.3

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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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