Binge drinking in adults
Percentage of adults aged 18 and over who had 5 or more drinks (men) or 4 or more drinks (women) on at least one occasion in the past 30 days. Crude prevalence, not age-adjusted.
CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a telephone survey of adults, crude prevalence. States and DC only: BRFSS publishes the median of the states rather than a national prevalence, so no national value is served. A state that did not meet BRFSS data standards in a year has no value, and CDC withholds estimates from fewer than 50 respondents or with a relative standard error above 0.3. The dataset also publishes 95% confidence intervals. The series starts in 2011, when BRFSS changed its weighting and added cell phones. BRFSS variable _RFBING5 to 2021 and _RFBING6 from 2022.
Key facts
- District of Columbia had the highest binge drinking in adults of 48 states in 2025, at 24.1%, and Utah the lowest, at 11.1%. Source: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Published for 51 places, with figures from 2011 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by binge drinking in adults, 2025
Places with data
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- District of Columbia
- Delaware
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rank_places {"indicator":"adult_binge_drinking_rate","level":"region","within":"United States"}
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