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)

No Leisure Time Physical Activity
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 18+

Sorted by Percent

State
 sort alphabetically by name ascending
Percent 2
(95% Confidence Interval)
 sort by percent descending
Number of Respondents with Screening or Risk Factor
United States 21.8 N/A
District of Columbia 13.9 (12.3, 15.4) 483
Colorado 15.6 (14.9, 16.4) 1,760
Vermont 16.0 (14.8, 17.1) 1,007
Utah 16.8 (15.9, 17.6) 2,374
Washington 17.4 (16.8, 18.0) 4,503
Minnesota 17.5 (16.7, 18.2) 2,640
Alaska 18.2 (16.6, 19.7) 1,078
New Hampshire 18.6 (17.2, 20.0) 1,427
Massachusetts 18.8 (17.8, 19.8) 1,766
Oregon 19.0 (17.8, 20.2) 1,189
Montana 19.1 (18.0, 20.2) 1,519
Maryland 19.5 (18.6, 20.4) 3,152
North Carolina 20.2 (18.7, 21.6) 890
California 20.7 (19.5, 22.0) 1,737
Idaho 20.7 (19.1, 22.4) 981
Connecticut 20.8 (19.4, 22.1) 1,496
Wyoming 21.0 (19.5, 22.5) 1,079
Hawaii 21.3 (19.9, 22.8) 1,397
Maine 21.4 (20.4, 22.3) 2,750
South Dakota 21.4 (19.0, 23.8) 1,470
Nebraska 21.6 (20.7, 22.6) 3,214
New Mexico 21.7 (19.6, 23.7) 796
North Dakota 21.7 (20.4, 23.0) 1,378
Wisconsin 21.7 (20.8, 22.7) 3,236
Arizona 21.8 (20.3, 23.4) 1,948
Iowa 21.8 (20.7, 22.9) 2,152
South Carolina 21.8 (20.4, 23.1) 2,445
Virginia 21.9 (20.4, 23.3) 1,689
Michigan 22.0 (20.9, 23.0) 2,727
Ohio 22.2 (21.0, 23.4) 2,546
Kansas 22.5 (21.4, 23.5) 2,683
Pennsylvania 22.7 (20.8, 24.6) 844
New Jersey 22.8 (21.6, 24.0) 2,025
Georgia 23.0 (21.5, 24.5) 1,838
Rhode Island 23.0 (21.4, 24.5) 1,227
Nevada 23.2 (20.6, 25.8) 574
Illinois 23.3 (22.4, 24.3) 2,872
New York 24.0 (23.3, 24.6) 10,397
Indiana 24.6 (23.7, 25.5) 3,306
Missouri 24.6 (23.3, 26.0) 1,956
Florida 25.0 (23.4, 26.5) 3,548
Texas 25.1 (23.7, 26.6) 3,035
Delaware 25.2 (23.3, 27.1) 1,163
Louisiana 27.6 (26.0, 29.2) 1,242
Alabama 27.7 (26.1, 29.2) 1,475
Oklahoma 27.7 (26.4, 28.9) 2,012
Kentucky 28.0 (26.5, 29.4) 2,364
Arkansas 28.5 (27.0, 30.1) 1,677
West Virginia 28.7 (27.3, 30.1) 1,748
Mississippi 30.6 (28.5, 32.8) 883
Puerto Rico 42.8 (40.4, 45.2) 1,843
Tennessee data not available data not available

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/02/2026 6:12 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 No Leisure Time Physical Activity, see the dictionary.

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

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