Oregon Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 549,000 people in Oregon have a disability, or 16.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 96,000 people, or 2.9% 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 Oregon (ages 5 and over)	3,333	549	16.5%	96	2.9%
Disability Type
Sensory		154		28	18.4%
Mobility		332		88	26.5%
Cognitive		202		56	27.7%
Self-care		96		96
Leaving the home		143		71	49.6%
Work disability		301		81	26.9%
Gender
Male	1,646	260	15.8%	41	2.5%
Female	1,687	289	17.2%	55	3.3%
Age
Children (5-17)	616	41	6.6%	4	0.7%
5-15	517	33	6.4%	4	0.8%
16-17	99	7	7.5%	0	0.1%
Working Ages (18-64)	2,265	302	13.3%	50	2.2%
18-44	1,321	124	9.4%	15	1.1%
45-64	944	177	18.8%	35	3.7%
Elderly (65+)	452	207	45.7%	42	9.3%
65-74	228	75	33.1%	13	5.6%
75-84	159	81	51.1%	16	10.2%
85+	66	50	76.2%	13	20.1%
Race
White	2,989	506	16.9%	89	3.0%
African American	69	10	14.8%	2	2.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander	148	14	9.3%	2	1.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native	93	20	21.9%	6	5.9%
Ethnicity
Hispanic	317	30	9.6%	5	1.6%
Non-Hispanic	3,016	519	17.2%	91	3.0%
Family Income
In poverty	458	116	25.3%	25	5.5%
Above poverty	2,860	432	15.1%	71	2.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI)	532	250	47.0%	54	10.2%
Supplemental Security Income	52	51	96.3%	15	27.7%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed	1,637	126	7.7%	9	0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force)	126	22	17.6%	2	1.7%
Not in labor force	499	154	30.8%	38	7.7%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone	407	131	32.2%	26	6.5%
Lives with others	2,926	418	14.3%	70	2.4%

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

About the Oregon 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:

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