Indiana Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 914,000 people in Indiana have a disability, or 16.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 160,000 people, or 2.8% 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 Indiana (ages 5 and over)	5,643	914	16.2%	160	2.8%
Disability Type
Sensory		250		47	18.8%
Mobility		549		146	26.6%
Cognitive		330		81	24.5%
Self-care		160		160
Leaving the home		240		112	46.9%
Work disability		493		133	27.0%
Gender
Male	2,769	432	15.6%	66	2.4%
Female	2,874	482	16.8%	94	3.3%
Age
Children (5-17)	1,160	87	7.5%	10	0.9%
5-15	987	71	7.2%	9	0.9%
16-17	173	16	9.2%	1	0.8%
Working Ages (18-64)	3,760	502	13.4%	85	2.3%
18-44	2,238	220	9.8%	29	1.3%
45-64	1,522	283	18.6%	56	3.7%
Elderly (65+)	724	325	44.9%	64	8.9%
65-74	381	126	33.0%	21	5.6%
75-84	263	137	52.0%	29	10.9%
85+	81	63	77.7%	14	18.0%
Race
White	4,970	803	16.1%	139	2.8%
African American	499	96	19.2%	18	3.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander	76	5	6.6%	1	1.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native	41	12	30.0%	2	5.7%
Ethnicity
Hispanic	240	24	10.2%	3	1.2%
Non-Hispanic	5,403	890	16.5%	157	2.9%
Family Income
In poverty	666	183	27.5%	36	5.5%
Above poverty	4,952	728	14.7%	123	2.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI)	873	414	47.4%	86	9.9%
Supplemental Security Income	91	87	95.7%	22	24.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed	2,729	202	7.4%	16	0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force)	200	35	17.5%	2	1.2%
Not in labor force	826	265	32.1%	67	8.1%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone	661	204	30.9%	34	5.1%
Lives with others	4,982	710	14.3%	126	2.5%

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

About the Indiana 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:

• Indiana Disability Data From 2005 American Community Survey
• Indiana Disability Data From 2004 American Community Survey
• Indiana Disability Data From 2003 American Community Survey
• Indiana Disability Data From 2002 American Community Survey