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Total (age-adjusted, percent, 1+ years)

Population 2017
Total
85.9
CI 85.5/86.3
SE 0.228

Sex (age-adjusted, percent, 1+ years)

Population 2017
Male
85.8
CI 85.2/86.4
SE 0.294
Female
86.1
CI 85.6/86.6
SE 0.277

Race/Ethnicity (age-adjusted, percent, 1+ years)

Population 2017
American Indian or Alaska Native only
79.9
CI 75.9/83.9
SE 2.041
Asian only
90.2
CI 88.9/91.5
SE 0.678
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander only
89.2
CI 80.6/97.8
SE 4.408
Black or African American only
84.1
CI 82.7/85.5
SE 0.703
White only
86.1
CI 85.6/86.6
SE 0.244
2 or more races
78.2
CI 75.0/81.4
SE 1.642
Hispanic or Latino
86.4
CI 85.3/87.5
SE 0.549
Not Hispanic or Latino
85.7
CI 85.2/86.2
SE 0.253
American Indian or Alaska Native only, not Hispanic or Latino
77.0
CI 72.0/82.0
SE 2.575
Asian only, not Hispanic or Latino
90.7
CI 89.4/92.0
SE 0.674
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander only, not Hispanic or Latino
85.5
CI 75.2/95.8
SE 5.268
Black or African American only, not Hispanic or Latino
84.1
CI 82.7/85.5
SE 0.726
White only, not Hispanic or Latino
85.8
CI 85.3/86.3
SE 0.277
2 or more races, not Hispanic or Latino
77.9
CI 74.3/81.5
SE 1.858

Age group (percent)

Population 2017
1-17
94.5
CI 93.9/95.1
SE 0.303
1-4
98.4
CI 97.8/99.0
SE 0.321
5-11
93.7
CI 92.7/94.7
SE 0.501
12-17
92.9
CI 91.8/94.0
SE 0.551
18-44
91.6
CI 91.0/92.2
SE 0.300
18-24
92.3
CI 91.2/93.4
SE 0.538
25-44
91.3
CI 90.7/91.9
SE 0.328
25 and over
80.3
CI 79.7/80.9
SE 0.322
45-64
81.0
CI 80.0/82.0
SE 0.488
45-54
85.4
CI 84.2/86.6
SE 0.589
55-64
76.6
CI 75.2/78.0
SE 0.700
65 and over
60.5
CI 59.1/61.9
SE 0.736
65-74
69.9
CI 68.2/71.6
SE 0.845
75-84
54.0
CI 51.5/56.5
SE 1.265
85 and over
25.5
CI 21.8/29.2
SE 1.910

Educational attainment (age-adjusted, percent, 25 years and over)

Population 2017
< High school
71.1
CI 69.2/73.0
SE 0.973
High school
78.5
CI 77.5/79.5
SE 0.518
Some college or technical school
80.6
CI 79.6/81.6
SE 0.512
4-year college degree (or more)
88.5
CI 87.8/89.2
SE 0.370

Family income, percent poverty threshold (age-adjusted, percent, 1+ years)

Population 2017
<100
72.5
CI 70.8/74.2
SE 0.842
100-199
80.9
CI 79.8/82.0
SE 0.560
200-399
86.6
CI 85.8/87.4
SE 0.409
400+
91.0
CI 90.5/91.5
SE 0.268

Health insurance status (age-adjusted, percent, 1-64 years)

Population 2017
Insured
89.9
CI 89.4/90.4
SE 0.238
Private
93.7
CI 93.3/94.1
SE 0.212
Public
76.1
CI 74.8/77.4
SE 0.647
Uninsured
90.4
CI 89.2/91.6
SE 0.606

Geographic location (age-adjusted, percent, 1+ years)

Population 2017
Metropolitan
86.6
CI 86.1/87.1
SE 0.251
Non-metropolitan
81.6
CI 80.4/82.8
SE 0.637

Marital status (age-adjusted, percent, 18 years and over)

Population 2017
Married/Cohabiting partner
85.5
CI 84.6/86.4
SE 0.437
Divorced or separated/Widowed
76.7
CI 74.7/78.7
SE 1.042
Never married
77.7
CI 75.8/79.6
SE 0.965

Country of birth (age-adjusted, percent, 1+ years)

Population 2017
US
85.3
CI 84.8/85.8
SE 0.246
Outside US
88.7
CI 87.7/89.7
SE 0.513

Sexual orientation (age-adjusted, percent, 18 years and over)

Population 2017
Straight
82.4
CI 81.7/83.1
SE 0.368
Straight, Male
82.7
CI 81.7/83.7
SE 0.529
Straight, Female
82.3
CI 81.4/83.2
SE 0.472
Gay/Lesbian
76.7
CI 70.4/83.0
SE 3.199
Gay, Male
82.9
CI 76.7/89.1
SE 3.181
Gay/Lesbian, Female
62.5
CI 52.9/72.1
SE 4.886
Bisexual
71.1
CI 63.7/78.5
SE 3.791
Bisexual, Male
DSU
Bisexual, Female
74.8
CI 65.7/83.9
SE 4.668

Data Source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC/NCHS

DSU: Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

The term disability describes people at risk of a limitation in their ability to fully participate in society. People are identified as having a disability through a set of 6 standardized questions developed for the American Community Survey (ACS). These questions ask if a person has difficulty in any of these 6 domains of functioning:

  • Hearing
  • Seeing
  • Concentrating
  • Remembering or making decisions
  • Walking or climbing stairs
  • Dressing or bathing
  • Doing errands alone
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The confidence level used for OHM data is 95 percent.