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)

Binge drinking (4+ drinks on one occasion for women, 5+ drinks on one occasion for men)
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 21+

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 15.6 N/A
Alabama 15.0 (13.6, 16.5) 531
Alaska 18.8 (17.1, 20.6) 748
Arizona 15.8 (14.2, 17.3) 936
Arkansas 14.1 (12.7, 15.5) 489
California 15.5 (14.3, 16.7) 946
Colorado 17.7 (16.8, 18.6) 1,450
Connecticut 15.2 (13.9, 16.5) 825
Delaware 12.7 (11.1, 14.4) 358
District of Columbia 25.5 (23.5, 27.6) 536
Florida 14.5 (13.1, 16.0) 1,262
Georgia 13.7 (12.4, 15.0) 667
Hawaii 16.5 (15.2, 17.9) 817
Idaho 13.8 (12.3, 15.4) 523
Illinois 18.4 (17.5, 19.4) 1,847
Indiana 15.0 (14.1, 15.8) 1,459
Iowa 20.2 (19.0, 21.4) 1,296
Kansas 16.6 (15.6, 17.6) 1,327
Kentucky 13.6 (12.3, 14.9) 642
Louisiana 17.0 (15.6, 18.5) 587
Maine 14.7 (13.7, 15.6) 1,261
Maryland 13.2 (12.3, 14.1) 1,409
Massachusetts 15.8 (14.8, 16.9) 1,183
Michigan 15.4 (14.3, 16.4) 1,244
Minnesota 18.3 (17.5, 19.2) 2,066
Mississippi 13.6 (11.9, 15.2) 341
Missouri 16.1 (14.9, 17.4) 917
Montana 20.3 (18.9, 21.6) 946
Nebraska 19.9 (18.9, 21.0) 1,832
Nevada 16.0 (13.7, 18.4) 363
New Hampshire 15.5 (14.0, 17.0) 583
New Jersey 14.7 (13.6, 15.8) 1,060
New Mexico 15.4 (13.3, 17.5) 357
New York 15.3 (14.8, 15.9) 5,563
North Carolina 13.4 (12.1, 14.7) 490
North Dakota 19.7 (18.3, 21.1) 811
Ohio 16.3 (15.2, 17.4) 1,204
Oklahoma 12.9 (11.9, 14.0) 647
Oregon 14.7 (13.6, 15.8) 745
Pennsylvania 16.8 (14.9, 18.7) 482
Puerto Rico 10.0 (8.7, 11.3) 378
Rhode Island 16.9 (15.4, 18.4) 642
South Carolina 15.9 (14.5, 17.3) 919
South Dakota 17.7 (15.2, 20.2) 804
Texas 16.7 (15.4, 18.0) 1,548
Utah 11.5 (10.7, 12.3) 1,087
Vermont 16.9 (15.7, 18.2) 791
Virginia 13.9 (12.6, 15.2) 655
Washington 14.6 (14.1, 15.2) 2,894
West Virginia 13.1 (11.8, 14.3) 526
Wisconsin 19.2 (18.1, 20.4) 1,599
Wyoming 16.8 (15.2, 18.5) 467
Tennessee data not available data not available

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/03/2026 12:22 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 Binge drinking (4+ drinks on one occasion for women, 5+ drinks on one occasion for men), see the dictionary.

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

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