Screening and Risk Factors Table

New: County level modeled estimates for breast or cervical screening, smoking, and colorectal screening.
  • How do you find them?

    These estimates are only available for

    • Mammogram in Past 2 Years, Ages 40+
    • Mammogram in Past 2 Years, Ages 50-75
    • Pap Smear in Past 3 Years, No Hysterectomy, Ages 18+
    • Had Colonoscopy in Past 10 Years, Ages 50-75
    • Guidance Sufficient CRC, Ages 50-75
    • Fecal occult blood test (FOBT), Ages 50-75
    • Smokers (current), Age 18+
    • Percent of Daily Smokers Who Stopped Smoking for 1 day or Longer in the Past 12 Months, Age 18+
    • Former Smoking Prevalence, Age 18+
    • Former Smoking Prevalence who Quit 1 Year, Age 18+
    • Percent of Workers in Non-Smoking Environments (All People)

    Select one of those statistics in the Screening and Risk Factors drop-down, and then you can choose County-Level Modeled Estimates in the Data Type drop-down when you choose Counties for a specific state (e.g., Alabama Counties) in the Area drop-down.

    For more about what these estimates are, see the Data Type Explanation.

  • Why are they different?

    One difference is that the direct estimate is from data collected in one year, while the modeled estimate relies on pooled data from 2017 through 2019 or 2018 through 2019.

    Another difference is that the modeled estimates use data from BRFSS as well as another survey (NHIS) that has a smaller but more representative sample, in that NHIS includes people without phones or with only cell phones. The national cancer screening prevalence estimates based on the BRFSS was sometimes substantially larger than the NHIS estimates for the same time period. For similar time periods, the modeled estimates may be closer to the true value.

    See the Data Type Explanation.

    The model uses multiple years (2008-2010) to provide reasonable sample sizes (mainly for estimates at the county level), and needs at least two years of data from each survey. For the screening questions, data actually came from year 2008 and 2010. For smoking, data came from each year of 2008 to 2010.

    1 Davis WW, Parsons VL, Xie D, Schenker N, Town M, Raghunathan TE, Feuer EJ. State-based estimates of mammography screening rates based on information from two health surveys. Public Health Rep 2010 Jul-Aug;125(4):567-578. [Access article]

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Screening and Risk Factors Report by State
(Directly Estimated 2024 BRFSS Data)

Healthy Weight (BMI 18.5 to <25)
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 20+

Sorted by Percent

State
 sort alphabetically by name descending
Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)
 sort by percent ascending
Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 28.5 N/A
Alabama 24.7 (23.1, 26.3) 1,196
Alaska 29.2 (27.2, 31.2) 1,461
Arizona 29.6 (27.8, 31.5) 2,409
Arkansas 24.0 (22.5, 25.5) 1,232
California 32.2 (30.7, 33.8) 2,432
Colorado 34.8 (33.7, 35.9) 3,404
Connecticut 29.0 (27.4, 30.5) 1,824
Delaware 27.3 (25.2, 29.4) 1,024
District of Columbia 39.3 (37.1, 41.6) 1,123
Florida 31.9 (30.2, 33.6) 3,578
Georgia 27.6 (25.9, 29.3) 1,811
Hawaii 36.5 (34.7, 38.3) 2,366
Idaho 29.6 (27.5, 31.6) 1,080
Illinois 28.5 (27.4, 29.6) 3,044
Indiana 26.0 (25.0, 27.0) 2,878
Iowa 25.0 (23.8, 26.2) 1,896
Kansas 25.8 (24.7, 27.0) 2,518
Kentucky 26.2 (24.6, 27.8) 1,581
Louisiana 25.0 (23.3, 26.6) 1,046
Maine 29.9 (28.8, 31.1) 3,281
Maryland 28.3 (27.1, 29.4) 3,499
Massachusetts 33.9 (32.6, 35.2) 2,725
Michigan 28.3 (27.0, 29.5) 2,866
Minnesota 29.6 (28.6, 30.6) 3,887
Mississippi 23.5 (21.5, 25.6) 646
Missouri 28.5 (27.0, 30.0) 1,868
Montana 32.2 (30.7, 33.7) 1,934
Nebraska 26.0 (24.8, 27.2) 2,841
Nevada 29.6 (26.6, 32.6) 727
New Hampshire 29.6 (27.9, 31.4) 2,027
New Jersey 32.3 (30.8, 33.8) 2,294
New Mexico 26.1 (23.9, 28.4) 904
New York 32.4 (31.7, 33.2) 11,312
North Carolina 28.5 (26.8, 30.2) 1,093
North Dakota 25.8 (24.2, 27.3) 1,243
Ohio 27.0 (25.7, 28.4) 2,367
Oklahoma 26.0 (24.8, 27.3) 1,674
Oregon 29.5 (28.0, 30.9) 1,642
Pennsylvania 28.1 (25.9, 30.2) 886
Puerto Rico 24.8 (22.8, 26.7) 1,040
Rhode Island 29.9 (28.2, 31.6) 1,466
South Carolina 28.1 (26.4, 29.8) 2,228
South Dakota 28.0 (24.9, 31.1) 1,362
Texas 27.2 (25.6, 28.8) 2,863
Utah 31.8 (30.7, 32.9) 3,605
Vermont 33.8 (32.3, 35.4) 2,024
Virginia 29.4 (27.7, 31.1) 1,821
Washington 31.3 (30.6, 32.1) 6,970
West Virginia 24.1 (22.7, 25.5) 1,327
Wisconsin 27.9 (26.7, 29.1) 3,025
Wyoming 28.2 (26.4, 30.0) 1,241
Tennessee data not available data not available

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 02/27/2026 10:55 am.

2 2024 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.

For more information about Healthy Weight (BMI 18.5 to <25), see the dictionary.

Data not available for this combination of geography, cancer site, age, and race/ethnicity.

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