Nevada Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 269,000 people in Nevada have a disability, or 12.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 50,000 people, or 2.3% 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 Nevada (ages 5 and over)	2,201	269	12.2%	50	2.3%
Disability Type
Sensory		72		16	22.0%
Mobility		172		46	26.8%
Cognitive		85		26	30.8%
Self-care		50		50
Leaving the home		73		36	50.2%
Work disability		138		41	29.7%
Gender
Male	1,109	125	11.2%	20	1.8%
Female	1,092	144	13.2%	30	2.7%
Age
Children (5-17)	442	22	4.9%	2	0.5%
5-15	380	18	4.8%	2	0.5%
16-17	62	4	6.0%	0	0.4%
Working Ages (18-64)	1,492	143	9.6%	26	1.7%
18-44	926	51	5.5%	7	0.8%
45-64	566	92	16.3%	19	3.3%
Elderly (65+)	268	104	39.0%	22	8.1%
65-74	161	46	28.9%	8	5.0%
75-84	84	41	49.1%	8	9.7%
85+	23	17	72.1%	5	23.3%
Race
White	1,739	222	12.7%	40	2.3%
African American	172	22	13.1%	6	3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander	162	13	8.0%	2	1.0%
American Indian/Alaska Native	43	9	21.9%	2	4.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic	493	29	6.0%	4	0.7%
Non-Hispanic	1,708	240	14.0%	46	2.7%
Family Income
In poverty	235	41	17.4%	9	3.9%
Above poverty	1,957	227	11.6%	40	2.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI)	298	128	43.0%	30	10.1%
Supplemental Security Income	27	27	98.4%	8	31.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed	1,094	58	5.3%	5	0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force)	68	8	12.2%	1	1.0%
Not in labor force	325	77	23.6%	20	6.2%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone	253	58	23.0%	10	4.1%
Lives with others	1,948	211	10.8%	39	2.0%

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

About the Nevada 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:

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