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Florida Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 2,675,000 people in Florida have a disability, or 16.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 491,000 people, or 3.0% of the population 5 and over, have difficulty performing self-care activities, also known as Activities of Daily Living, such as dressing, bathing, or getting around inside the home.

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Prevalence of overall disability and of self-care difficulty, by gender, age, race and ethnicity, type of disability, family income, benefit recipiency, employment status, and living arrangement.
Subject Population (Thousands) With a disability (Thousands) With a disability (Percent) With a self-care difficulty (Thousands) With a self-care difficulty (Percent)
Total in Florida
(ages 5 and over)		 16,250 2,675 16.5% 491 3.0%
Disability Type
Sensory   760   152 20.0%
Mobility   1,672   441 26.4%
Cognitive   922   273 29.6%
Self-care   491   491  
Leaving the home   755   357 47.3%
Work disability   1,487   410 27.5%
Gender
Male 7,910 1,250 15.8% 210 2.7%
Female 8,339 1,424 17.1% 282 3.4%
Age
Children (5-17) 2,917 191 6.5% 24 0.8%
5-15 2,455 162 6.6% 22 0.9%
16-17 462 29 6.3% 2 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 10,454 1,292 12.4% 235 2.2%
18-44 6,065 462 7.6% 66 1.1%
45-64 4,389 830 18.9% 168 3.8%
Elderly (65+) 2,878 1,192 41.4% 233 8.1%
65-74 1,488 450 30.2% 66 4.5%
75-84 1,060 504 47.5% 97 9.1%
85+ 331 239 72.1% 70 21.1%
Race
White 12,784 2196 17.2% 396 3.1%
African American 2,458 372 15.1% 81 3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 403 34 8.5% 4 1.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 123 35 28.7% 8 6.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 3,144 394 12.5% 81 2.6%
Non-Hispanic 13,106 2,280 17.4% 411 3.1%
Family Income
In poverty 2,036 527 25.9% 110 5.4%
Above poverty 14,164 2,143 15.1% 381 2.7%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 3,177 1,378 43.4% 290 9.1%
Supplemental Security Income 269 257 95.4% 70 25.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 7,433 477 6.4% 43 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 477 73 15.3% 6 1.3%
Not in labor force 2,499 740 29.6% 186 7.4%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 1,990 595 29.9% 109 5.5%
Lives with others 14,260 2,080 14.6% 383 2.7%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Florida 2005 ACS Disability Data

The Center for Personal Assistance Services has compiled state and national data on the prevalence of overall disability and of self-care difficulty, by gender, age, race and ethnicity, type of disability, family income, benefit recipiency, employment status, and living arrangement. These statistics are based on our tabulations of public use data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) for 2005, containing information on over 1 million residents of randomly selected U.S. households. Because it is a household survey, people living in institutions such as nursing homes are not included.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

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