Adults who used the internet in the past 12 months to communicate with a doctor or doctor's office, by urbanization level, July–December 2022. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals. CDC.
The numbers
During July–December 2022, 41.5% of U.S. adults said they had used the internet in the past 12 months to communicate with a doctor or doctor's office.
The share fell steadily as places got more rural:
| County type | Share |
|---|---|
| Large fringe metropolitan (suburbs) | 47.0% |
| Large central metropolitan (big cities) | 45.9% |
| Medium and small metropolitan, micropolitan | declining with urbanization |
| Noncore (most rural) | 26.1% |
About the data
- Question: "During the past 12 months, have you used the Internet … to communicate with a doctor or doctor's office?" Adults who didn't use the internet at all counted as not having done so.
- Urbanization follows the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics classification of counties.
- Survey: household interviews of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population in the National Health Interview Survey; the internet questions were asked only in the last 6 months of 2022.
Sources
Based on "QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Used the Internet in the Past 12 Months to Communicate with a Doctor or Doctor's Office, by Urbanization Level — National Health Interview Survey, United States, July–December 2022," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; a work of the United States government in the public domain.
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain) · Adapted from www.cdc.gov
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