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)

Received at Least One Recommended CRC Test
All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 45-75

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 71.1 N/A
New Mexico 61.4 (58.1, 64.7) 1,128
Wyoming 61.6 (59.3, 64.0) 1,548
Nevada 63.6 (59.3, 67.9) 876
Alaska 63.8 (61.1, 66.5) 1,849
California 65.1 (62.8, 67.4) 2,389
Texas 66.2 (63.8, 68.7) 3,638
Oklahoma 66.3 (64.5, 68.1) 2,375
Mississippi 66.7 (63.7, 69.7) 989
South Dakota 66.9 (62.4, 71.4) 2,196
Arizona 67.2 (64.5, 69.8) 2,923
Puerto Rico 67.3 (64.9, 69.8) 1,610
Montana 67.7 (65.8, 69.6) 2,529
Illinois 67.9 (66.4, 69.4) 3,892
Arkansas 68.1 (65.9, 70.2) 1,897
Utah 68.5 (67.0, 70.1) 3,833
Florida 69.0 (66.7, 71.4) 4,839
Idaho 69.1 (66.3, 71.9) 1,356
West Virginia 69.3 (67.5, 71.2) 2,468
Georgia 69.5 (67.1, 71.9) 2,512
Hawaii 69.6 (67.4, 71.8) 2,308
Missouri 69.8 (67.7, 72.0) 2,433
Kansas 70.1 (68.5, 71.7) 3,769
Indiana 70.3 (69.0, 71.7) 4,777
Alabama 70.4 (68.2, 72.6) 1,992
Nebraska 70.8 (69.3, 72.4) 4,448
Kentucky 71.0 (68.9, 73.0) 2,859
North Dakota 71.1 (69.1, 73.1) 2,214
Virginia 71.2 (68.9, 73.5) 2,590
Colorado 71.3 (69.9, 72.7) 3,743
Washington 71.3 (70.3, 72.3) 9,647
Iowa 71.6 (69.9, 73.2) 2,997
Oregon 71.8 (69.9, 73.7) 2,104
North Carolina 72.2 (70.0, 74.4) 1,462
New Jersey 72.3 (70.4, 74.1) 2,990
Pennsylvania 72.3 (69.0, 75.5) 1,195
District of Columbia 72.6 (69.6, 75.5) 1,064
Minnesota 73.1 (71.9, 74.4) 5,809
Louisiana 73.2 (71.0, 75.3) 1,759
New York 73.2 (72.2, 74.2) 16,403
South Carolina 73.4 (71.4, 75.5) 3,717
Ohio 73.5 (71.8, 75.2) 3,977
Maryland 74.7 (73.3, 76.1) 5,676
Wisconsin 74.8 (73.4, 76.2) 5,085
Michigan 75.3 (73.7, 76.9) 4,546
Vermont 76.1 (74.4, 77.9) 2,870
Delaware 76.2 (73.6, 78.8) 1,778
Maine 76.5 (75.2, 77.9) 5,401
New Hampshire 76.9 (75.0, 78.9) 3,122
Massachusetts 78.2 (76.6, 79.7) 3,628
Connecticut 78.5 (76.6, 80.3) 2,889
Rhode Island 80.4 (78.4, 82.3) 2,380
Tennessee data not available data not available

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/03/2026 8:49 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 Received at Least One Recommended CRC Test, see the dictionary.

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

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