{"id":6433,"date":"2022-05-20T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T03:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-who-felt-that-crime-makes-it-unsafe-to-walk-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/05\/20\/6433\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226518 Years Who Felt That Crime Makes It Unsafe to Walk,\u00a0by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey,\u00a0United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwdev.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7120a5-F.gif?_=85137\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"242\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, 11.0% of adults aged \u226518 years felt that crime made it unsafe for them to walk. Percentages were lower for men (8.9%) than for women (13.0%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men were less likely than women to feel unsafe walking because of crime in all age groups (18\u201324 years: 9.3% of men compared with 17.1% of women; 25\u201344 years: 10.1% of men compared with 14.1% of women; 45\u201364 years: 8.9% of men compared with 12.7% of women; \u226565 years: 6.5% of men compared with 9.9% of women). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among both sexes, adults aged \u226565 years were less likely to feel unsafe to walk than those in younger age groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7120a5.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7120a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, 11.0% of adults aged \u226518 years felt that crime made it unsafe for them to walk. Percentages were lower for men (8.9%) than for women (13.0%). Men were less likely than women to feel unsafe walking because of crime in all age groups (18\u201324 years: 9.3% of men compared with 17.1% of women;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62266,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}