15.6%
2024 (latest)
FREQUENT MENTAL DISTRESS (BRFSS STATE MEDIAN)
percent of adults, median across states and DC · 2019–2024 · lower is better · CDC, BRFSS Prevalence and Trends Data
13.8%
2019
15.9%
high · 2022
13.2%
low · 2020
+1.8 pts
since 2019
┊ dashed lines mark 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Mental health not good on 14 or more of the past 30 days. CDC's own published median across all states and DC (not a population-weighted national average; BRFSS does not publish one in this table). This resource starts in 2019, with six annual readings through 2024 in the verified edition, a named short-coverage exception. Pre-2019 coverage, including 2011–2018, needs annual XPT microdata and _LLCPWT weighting not currently read by this pipeline; those years are omitted, not interpolated. Breaks: none known within 2019–2024 (the 2011 sampling redesign predates this series); CDC state median, not population-weighted.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://data.cdc.gov/resource/dttw-5yxu.json
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Societal-Health
Data
| Year | Frequent Mental Distress (BRFSS State Median) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15.6% | +0.2 pts |
| 2023 | 15.4% | −0.5 pts |
| 2022 | 15.9% | +1.3 pts |
| 2021 | 14.6% | +1.4 pts |
| 2020 | 13.2% | −0.6 pts |
| 2019 | 13.8% | — |
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