2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 810 92 11.0 8.8-13.8 718 89.0 86.2-91.2
GENDER
Male 374 36 9.3 6.5-13.2 338 90.7 86.8-93.5
Female 436 56 12.6 9.4-16.8 380 87.4 83.2-90.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 448 40 10.7 7.7-14.8 408 89.3 85.2-92.3
Non-Hispanic Black 161 13 7.1 3.9-12.5 148 92.9 87.5-96.1
Other 193 38 17.1 11.9-24.0 155 82.9 76.0-88.1
AGE
18-44 344 51 14.3 10.6-19.0 293 85.7 81.0-89.4
45-64 270 32 10.6 7.1-15.6 238 89.4 84.4-92.9
65+ 174 *** *** *** 170 98.0 92.8-99.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 233 36 11.7 8.1-16.6 197 88.3 83.4-91.9
Some Post-H.S. 196 30 15.1 10.2-21.7 166 84.9 78.3-89.8
College Graduate 378 26 7.2 4.6-10.9 352 92.8 89.1-95.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 210 43 18.9 13.5-25.8 167 81.1 74.2-86.5
$50,000+ 392 27 6.9 4.6-10.4 365 93.1 89.6-95.4
Don't know/Not Sure 199 19 10.6 6.4-17.0 180 89.4 83.0-93.6

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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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