2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of insurance coverage that pays for some or all of your routine dental care
including dental insurance prepaid plans such as HMOs or government plans such as Medicaid?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,508 2,339 69.1 67.3-70.9 1,169 30.9 29.1-32.7
Region 5 508 342 71.8 67.3-75.9 166 28.2 24.1-32.7
GENDER
Male 212 150 77.0 70.7-82.2 62 23.0 17.8-29.3
Female 296 192 67.4 60.8-73.3 104 32.6 26.7-39.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 296 219 77.9 72.4-82.5 77 22.1 17.5-27.6
Non-Hispanic Black 105 83 78.2 67.1-86.3 22 21.8 13.7-32.9
Other 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 186 123 71.0 63.4-77.5 63 29.0 22.5-36.6
45-64 173 114 72.4 64.8-78.9 59 27.6 21.1-35.2
65+ 143 99 71.4 61.8-79.4 44 28.6 20.6-38.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 155 81 61.2 52.2-69.4 74 38.8 30.6-47.8
Some Post-H.S. 122 82 74.1 65.5-81.2 40 25.9 18.8-34.5
College Graduate 228 177 80.7 74.8-85.5 51 19.3 14.5-25.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 148 80 60.0 50.9-68.5 68 40.0 31.5-49.1
$50,000+ 226 182 83.5 77.7-88.0 44 16.5 12.0-22.3
Don't know/Not Sure 130 78 62.8 52.5-72.1 52 37.2 27.9-47.5

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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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