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)

Had a Mammogram in Past 2 Years
All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, Ages 50-74

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 78.5 N/A
Alabama 78.5 (75.6, 81.4) 1,109
Alaska 74.6 (71.2, 78.0) 862
Arizona 76.9 (73.4, 80.5) 1,514
Arkansas 74.8 (71.9, 77.6) 966
California 77.6 (74.5, 80.7) 1,186
Colorado 78.1 (76.2, 80.0) 1,778
Connecticut 86.1 (83.9, 88.3) 1,435
Delaware 82.4 (79.3, 85.6) 946
District of Columbia 79.8 (75.9, 83.7) 547
Florida 80.7 (78.1, 83.4) 2,516
Georgia 78.8 (75.7, 82.0) 1,355
Hawaii 83.0 (80.5, 85.5) 1,145
Idaho 73.2 (69.3, 77.2) 585
Illinois 79.5 (77.5, 81.6) 1,831
Indiana 77.1 (75.2, 79.1) 2,289
Iowa 80.0 (77.7, 82.3) 1,459
Kansas 77.4 (75.2, 79.6) 1,742
Kentucky 76.8 (73.9, 79.6) 1,464
Louisiana 81.2 (78.6, 83.8) 866
Maine 82.2 (80.5, 84.0) 2,785
Maryland 82.3 (80.6, 84.1) 2,883
Massachusetts 86.5 (84.7, 88.4) 1,745
Michigan 81.9 (79.9, 83.9) 2,336
Minnesota 83.6 (82.0, 85.1) 2,736
Mississippi 78.2 (73.9, 82.4) 535
Missouri 79.5 (76.6, 82.3) 1,237
Montana 73.2 (70.4, 76.0) 1,206
Nebraska 78.3 (76.1, 80.4) 2,166
Nevada 76.7 (71.0, 82.4) 416
New Hampshire 83.6 (81.3, 85.8) 1,629
New Jersey 79.8 (77.3, 82.4) 1,452
New Mexico 76.1 (72.5, 79.7) 631
New York 81.4 (80.0, 82.7) 8,002
North Carolina 82.2 (79.3, 85.1) 774
North Dakota 78.5 (75.6, 81.4) 1,056
Ohio 76.1 (73.7, 78.5) 1,971
Oklahoma 74.7 (72.3, 77.0) 1,195
Oregon 76.8 (74.1, 79.5) 969
Pennsylvania 81.6 (77.7, 85.4) 634
Puerto Rico 84.1 (81.1, 87.2) 1,072
Rhode Island 86.8 (84.2, 89.3) 1,242
South Carolina 80.6 (78.1, 83.1) 1,916
South Dakota 73.5 (66.6, 80.4) 1,045
Texas 76.4 (73.2, 79.6) 1,727
Utah 74.4 (72.1, 76.7) 1,599
Vermont 81.3 (79.0, 83.6) 1,376
Virginia 78.2 (74.8, 81.6) 1,352
Washington 76.7 (75.3, 78.1) 4,567
West Virginia 78.2 (76.0, 80.5) 1,311
Wisconsin 82.3 (80.5, 84.1) 2,567
Wyoming 69.8 (66.7, 73.0) 777
Tennessee data not available data not available

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 02/20/2026 2:17 pm.

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 Had a Mammogram in Past 2 Years, see the dictionary.

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

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