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Tennessee Statistics

Tennessee Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Tennessee.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Tennessee.

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Tennessee Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 1,053,000 people in Tennessee have a disability, or 19.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 210,000 people, or 3.9% 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 Tennessee
(ages 5 and over)		 5,426 1,053 19.4% 210 3.9%
Disability Type
Sensory   305   65 21.4%
Mobility   670   193 28.8%
Cognitive   402   123 30.5%
Self-care   210   210  
Leaving the home   322   163 50.5%
Work disability   641   181 28.2%
Gender
Male 2,632 484 18.4% 85 3.2%
Female 2,794 569 20.4% 125 4.5%
Age
Children (5-17) 990 76 7.6% 10 1.0%
5-15 838 63 7.6% 9 1.1%
16-17 153 12 8.0% 1 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,727 617 16.5% 113 3.0%
18-44 2,206 249 11.3% 39 1.8%
45-64 1,521 367 24.1% 74 4.9%
Elderly (65+) 709 361 50.9% 87 12.2%
65-74 409 170 41.6% 32 7.8%
75-84 234 138 58.8% 34 14.5%
85+ 66 53 79.9% 21 31.8%
Race
White 4,394 878 20.0% 171 3.9%
African American 902 163 18.0% 37 4.1%
Asian/Pacific Islander 76 6 8.3% 1 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 40 17 42.9% 4 10.3%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 149 12 7.8% 1 0.8%
Non-Hispanic 5,277 1,041 19.7% 209 4.0%
Family Income
In poverty 821 274 33.4% 59 7.2%
Above poverty 4,591 778 16.9% 150 3.3%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 898 482 53.7% 118 13.2%
Supplemental Security Income 129 125 96.4% 36 27.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,581 199 7.7% 13 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 195 36 18.4% 3 1.8%
Not in labor force 935 380 40.7% 96 10.3%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 657 221 33.7% 45 6.8%
Lives with others 4,769 832 17.4% 165 3.5%

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


About the Tennessee 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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