2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 631 82 12.2 9.6-15.5 549 87.8 84.5-90.4
GENDER
Male 270 29 9.4 6.4-13.7 241 90.6 86.3-93.6
Female 361 53 14.8 10.9-19.8 308 85.2 80.2-89.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 367 28 8.2 5.5-12.1 339 91.8 87.9-94.5
Non-Hispanic Black 122 18 15.3 9.2-24.3 104 84.7 75.7-90.8
Other 135 34 21.0 14.1-30.0 101 79.0 70.0-85.9
AGE
18-44 260 49 18.7 13.8-24.7 211 81.3 75.3-86.2
45-64 196 32 12.4 8.4-17.9 164 87.6 82.1-91.6
65+ 165 *** *** *** 164 99.6 96.9-99.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 187 37 14.9 10.2-21.3 150 85.1 78.7-89.8
Some Post-H.S. 155 24 14.1 9.1-21.0 131 85.9 79.0-90.9
College Graduate 285 20 7.4 4.6-11.7 265 92.6 88.3-95.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 196 42 22.0 15.8-29.8 154 78.0 70.2-84.2
$50,000+ 275 19 6.1 3.7- 9.7 256 93.9 90.3-96.3
Don't know/Not Sure 153 20 12.6 7.8-19.7 133 87.4 80.3-92.2

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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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