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State information > Colorado Disability Statistics Table From 2003 American Community Survey

Colorado Disability Data Table From the 2003 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2003

An estimated 476,000 people in Colorado have a disability, or 11.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 70,000 people, or 1.7% 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.

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 Colorado
(ages 5 and over)		 4,124 476 11.5% 70 1.7%
Disability Type          
Sensory   143   21 14.5%
Mobility   276   64 23.1%
Cognitive   161   40 24.7%
Self-care   70   70  
Leaving the home   108   47 43.1%
Work disability   233   56 24.1%
Gender          
Male 2,071 233 11.2% 27 1.3%
Female 2,053 243 11.8% 43 2.1%
Age          
Children (5-17) 822 45 5.4% 7 0.9%
    5-15 698 38 5.4% 7 1.0%
    16-17 124 7 5.7% <0.5 <0.05%
Working Ages (18-64) 2,881 255 8.8% 35 1.2%
    18-44 1,820 110 6.0% 11 0.6%
    45-64 1,061 145 13.7% 24 2.3%
Elderly (65+) 421 176 41.9% 28 6.7%
    65-74 233 74 31.6% 10 4.1%
    75-84 146 70 48.0% 11 7.4%
    85+ 42 33 77.6% 8 18.1%
Race          
White 3,543 411 11.6% 64 1.8%
African American 185 25 13.3% 3 1.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander 131 13 9.9% 1 0.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 65 11 17.4% 1 1.5%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 735 74 10.0% 8 1.0%
Non-Hispanic 3,389 402 11.9% 63 1.8%
Family Income          
In poverty 384 79 20.5% 18 4.6%
Above poverty 3,725 396 10.6% 52 1.4%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 472 202 42.9% 37 7.9%
Supplemental Security Income 48 47 98.7% 13 27.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 2,165 121 5.6% 8 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 156 19 12.3% 0 0.3%
Not in labor force 548 115 21.0% 27 4.9%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 482 117 24.3% 18 3.7%
Lives with others 3,641 359 9.8% 53 1.4%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2003 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Colorado 2003 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 2003, 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.

These statistics from the 2003 ACS are both more current and more valid than estimates obtained from either the 2000 Census or previous years of the ACS. Problems discovered in two of the six disability questions, leading to a substantial overestimate of the disability population in the 2000 Census, have been fixed in the 2003 ACS questionnaire. These problems also affected prior years of the ACS, but to a lesser extent than the 2000 Census, due to different data collection procedures.

Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

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