# Heavy drinking in adults

Percentage of adults aged 18 and over who are heavy drinkers: men having more than 14 drinks a week and women more than 7 drinks a week, on average over the past 30 days. Crude prevalence, not age-adjusted.

## Key facts

- Montana had the highest heavy drinking in adults of 48 states in 2025, at 7.7%, and New Jersey the lowest, at 3.4%. Source: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Published for 51 places, with figures from 2011 to 2025.
- Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

- Indicator id: `adult_heavy_drinking_rate`
- Unit: %
- Note: 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. From 2011 to 2014 (variable _RFDRHV4) BRFSS stated the threshold per day: more than two drinks for men and more than one for women, the same average. Later years use variables _RFDRHV5 to _RFDRHV9.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/adult-heavy-drinking-rate
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/indicators/adult_heavy_drinking_rate

## Rankings

- [US states](https://invokely.ai/rankings/adult-heavy-drinking-rate/us-states.md) (51 places)