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State Cancer Profiles

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/18/2024 7:26 pm.
* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category.
Data not available for this combination of data selections.
2 2022 BRFSS Survey Data is the source for this data collected by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data for the US is a median and not a percent.

BRFSS Prevalence estimates presented here may vary from other published estimates due to differences in the methodology used to generate estimates.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.
Screening and Risk Factors Report by State
(Directly Estimated 2022 BRFSS Data)

Obese (BMI >= 30)
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 20+

Sorted by Percent
State Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)		 Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 34.2 N/A
District of Columbia 24.7 (22.5, 26.8) 691
Colorado 25.5 (24.3, 26.6) 2,121
Hawaii 26.2 (24.7, 27.7) 1,747
Vermont 27.3 (25.9, 28.7) 2,023
Massachusetts 28.0 (26.8, 29.3) 2,688
California 28.8 (27.4, 30.2) 2,586
New Jersey 29.8 (28.2, 31.3) 1,944
New York 30.4 (29.3, 31.4) 4,530
New Hampshire 30.9 (29.1, 32.6) 1,727
Connecticut 31.0 (29.5, 32.5) 2,463
Montana 31.1 (29.7, 32.5) 2,032
Rhode Island 31.4 (29.5, 33.2) 1,518
Oregon 31.5 (30.0, 33.0) 1,658
Utah 31.8 (30.5, 33.1) 2,693
Florida 32.2 (30.4, 34.0) 3,833
Washington 32.2 (31.4, 33.0) 7,070
Alaska 32.9 (31.1, 34.7) 1,686
New Mexico 32.9 (30.9, 34.9) 1,361
Idaho 33.6 (32.1, 35.1) 1,857
Maine 33.6 (32.2, 34.9) 3,158
Arizona 33.8 (32.2, 35.5) 2,887
Maryland 33.8 (32.5, 35.0) 4,783
Illinois 33.9 (32.0, 35.8) 1,271
Nevada 34.0 (31.4, 36.6) 889
North Carolina 34.2 (32.2, 36.2) 1,337
Pennsylvania 34.2 (32.0, 36.4) 1,390
Minnesota 34.3 (33.2, 35.3) 5,039
Wyoming 35.0 (33.1, 36.9) 1,243
Michigan 35.1 (33.8, 36.5) 2,955
Puerto Rico 35.1 (33.3, 36.9) 1,849
South Carolina 35.6 (34.2, 37.0) 3,008
Nebraska 35.8 (34.2, 37.4) 2,541
Virginia 36.0 (34.6, 37.4) 3,250
North Dakota 36.2 (34.3, 38.0) 1,343
Kansas 36.5 (35.2, 37.8) 3,681
Texas 36.6 (35.0, 38.2) 4,378
Missouri 37.2 (35.6, 38.8) 2,505
Georgia 37.5 (35.9, 39.1) 2,870
South Dakota 37.6 (34.2, 41.0) 2,502
Arkansas 38.2 (36.4, 40.1) 1,702
Wisconsin 38.3 (37.0, 39.7) 3,757
Delaware 38.5 (36.2, 40.8) 1,310
Iowa 38.5 (37.1, 39.9) 3,054
Kentucky 38.5 (36.3, 40.7) 1,431
Ohio 38.6 (37.5, 39.8) 5,824
Indiana 38.7 (37.4, 40.0) 3,332
Alabama 39.1 (37.0, 41.1) 1,653
Tennessee 39.3 (37.4, 41.2) 1,757
Oklahoma 40.5 (38.8, 42.1) 2,083
Mississippi 40.7 (38.7, 42.7) 1,603
Louisiana 41.2 (39.4, 43.0) 1,963
West Virginia 41.7 (39.9, 43.4) 1,861