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Introduction

Index of New Mexico Pages.

New Mexico Statistics

New Mexico Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in New Mexico.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in New Mexico.

State Program Data

Medicaid Waiver Data in New Mexico.

New Mexico Medicaid HCBS Data.

Federal HCBS Funding to New Mexico.

State Only Funded HCBS in New Mexico.

State Waiver Demo Information.

New Mexico Legal Information

New Mexico Olmstead Plans and Lawsuits.

New Mexico PAS Projects

Research/Demo Projects to Improve PAS Workforce.

New Mexico Resources

Contact Info and Descriptions for all New Mexico Medicaid Waivers.

New Mexico Agencies Related to PAS.

New Mexico resources for employment of persons with disabilities.

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PAS Reports and Publications related to New Mexico.

New Mexico PAS Workforce Library.

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New Mexico Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 298,000 people in New Mexico have a disability, or 17.0% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 59,000 people, or 3.4% 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.

Read more about these data.

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 New Mexico
(ages 5 and over)		 1,754 298 17.0% 59 3.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   97   21 21.9%
Mobility   186   53 28.6%
Cognitive   107   32 30.4%
Self-care   59   59  
Leaving the home   85   46 53.6%
Work disability   157   49 31.1%
Gender
Male 852 150 17.6% 26 3.0%
Female 903 149 16.5% 34 3.7%
Age
Children (5-17) 354 20 5.5% 2 0.7%
5-15 294 16 5.5% 2 0.8%
16-17 60 4 5.8% 0 0.2%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,174 172 14.7% 33 2.8%
18-44 684 70 10.3% 12 1.8%
45-64 490 102 20.8% 20 4.1%
Elderly (65+) 226 106 47.1% 24 10.8%
65-74 128 49 38.1% 8 6.6%
75-84 74 40 53.2% 10 12.9%
85+ 24 18 75.6% 6 26.9%
Race
White 1,266 215 17.0% 43 3.4%
African American 41 8 19.7% 2 3.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 28 3 11.6% 1 3.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 188 33 17.8% 7 3.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 752 121 16.1% 24 3.1%
Non-Hispanic 1,002 177 17.7% 36 3.6%
Family Income
In poverty 313 72 23.0% 14 4.6%
Above poverty 1,435 225 15.7% 45 3.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 274 134 48.9% 33 12.1%
Supplemental Security Income 37 36 98.1% 13 34.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 810 66 8.1% 6 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 62 13 20.6% 2 2.6%
Not in labor force 294 94 31.8% 25 8.5%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 208 65 31.4% 15 7.0%
Lives with others 1,546 233 15.1% 45 2.9%

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


About the New Mexico 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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