Table 3.
Evacuation Characteristics by Region
| Variable | Region |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast | Central | Southwest | Charlotte | Northwest | Florida | |
| Number of Times Each Respondent Evacuated (% distribution) | ||||||
| Zero | 47.3 | 70.7 | 58.8 | 64.1 | 56.2 | 74.8 |
| One | 20.1 | 10.0 | 17.6 | 26.0 | 43.0 | 13.5 |
| Two | 30.5 | 6.3 | 7.7 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 6.3 |
| Three | 1.0 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 2.1 |
| Four | 1.1 | 5.8 | 8.2 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 3.3 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Percentage Evacuating at Least Once, by Type of Housing Unit | ||||||
| Mobile home | 95.0 | 71.9 | 77.7 | 74.0 | 72.3 | 62.8 |
| Single family | 49.3 | 18.2 | 27.8 | 32.2 | 40.8 | 20.6 |
| Multifamily | 57.7 | 40.8 | 31.2 | 25.3 | 40.3 | 25.8 |
| Other | 57.9 | 39.9 | 30.4 | 49.0 | 46.6 | 30.3 |
| Total | 52.7 | 29.3 | 41.2 | 35.9 | 43.8 | 25.2 |
| Type of Lodging (% distribution) | ||||||
| Family/friends | 58.0 | 62.6 | 63.3 | 56.5 | 57.6 | 65.2 |
| Public shelter | 6.6 | 5.8 | 11.3 | 3.3 | 7.1 | 5.7 |
| Hotel/motel | 20.4 | 14.3 | 7.3 | 25.3 | 22.3 | 15.3 |
| Other | 15.0 | 17.3 | 18.0 | 14.9 | 13.0 | 13.8 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Number of Nights Away From Home (% distribution) | ||||||
| 1–2 | 20.0 | 53.5 | 57.1 | 46.1 | 26.5 | 51.3 |
| 3–4 | 33.8 | 27.3 | 17.5 | 17.8 | 23.9 | 27.6 |
| 5–6 | 16.8 | 6.8 | 4.4 | 10.5 | 16.3 | 9.0 |
| 7–13 | 20.5 | 7.9 | 6.5 | 9.5 | 15.9 | 9.7 |
| 14 or more | 9.0 | 4.5 | 14.5 | 16.0 | 17.4 | 2.4 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |