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Alcohol – Binge Drinking

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This indicator reports the percentage of adults age 18 and older who report having five or more drinks (men) or four or more drinks (women) on an occasion in the past 30 days.

Source

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022.
Accessed via the PLACES Data Portal.

Source Description

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a collaborative project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. states and territories. The BRFSS, administered and supported by CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Branch, is an ongoing data collection program designed to measure behavioral risk factors for the adult population (18 years of age or older) living in households. The health characteristics estimated from the BRFSS include data pertaining to health behaviors, chronic conditions, access and utilization of healthcare, and general health. Surveys are administered to populations at the state level and then delivered to the CDC. BRFSS annual survey data are publicly available and maintained on the CDC’s BRFSS Annual Survey Data web page.

The PLACES Project is an expansion of the original 500 Cities Project that began in 2015. The original project was launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and CDC Foundation. In 2018, this partnership was extended through 2020. In 2020, the project expanded to provide small area estimates (SAE) for counties, places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTA) across the entire United States.

Methodology

This indicator reports the percentage of adults age 18 and older who report having five or more drinks (men) or four or more drinks (women) on an occasion in the past 30 days. Values are age-adjusted to the year 2000 U.S. standard. The geographic coverage of this indicator has extended from only the census tracts within the top 500 most populous cities in the United States before 2020 (as in the 500 Cities Project) to all counties, places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTA) across the entire United States ever since 2020 (as in the current PLACES project). Values are small-area estimates modeled using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) annual survey data files. Data are made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the PLACES: Local Data for Better Health project. For more information about this indicator, check out the indicator methodology page.

Data Breakouts Available

  • Binge Drinking – Disparity Report
  • Percentage of Adults with Binge Drinking, 2018-2022 (Crude)
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