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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2004 > Iowa

Iowa Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 390,000 people in Iowa have a disability, or 14.6% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 66,000 people, or 2.5% 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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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 Iowa
(ages 5 and over)		 2,671 390 14.6% 66 2.5%
Disability Type          
Sensory   116   18 15.6%
Mobility   232   58 24.9%
Cognitive   129   33 25.8%
Self-care   66   66  
Leaving the home   97   45 46.5%
Work disability   210   55 26.0%
Gender          
Male 1,310 192 14.6% 29 2.2%
Female 1,361 199 14.6% 37 2.7%
Age          
Children (5-17) 501 31 6.1% 4 0.8%
    5-15 418 27 6.5% 4 1.0%
    16-17 83 4 4.3% 0 0.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,773 186 10.5% 29 1.6%
    18-44 1,042 71 6.8% 11 1.0%
    45-64 732 115 15.7% 18 2.5%
Elderly (65+) 397 173 43.7% 33 8.3%
    65-74 196 61 30.9% 11 5.6%
    75-84 148 73 49.3% 11 7.7%
    85+ 54 40 74.6% 10 19.6%
Race          
White 2,536 374 14.7% 63 2.5%
African American 65 9 13.9% 0 0.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander 39 2 5.7% 0 1.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 19 6 31.2% 2 8.2%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 91 6 6.7% 1 1.2%
Non-Hispanic 2,580 384 14.9% 65 2.5%
Family Income          
In poverty 265 68 25.7% 15 5.7%
Above poverty 2,395 320 13.4% 51 2.1%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 465 213 45.7% 42 9.0%
Supplemental Security Income 35 34 97.9% 8 22.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,378 79 5.7% 6 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 83 13 15.7% 1 1.1%
Not in labor force 309 94 30.4% 22 7.1%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 349 118 33.8% 22 6.3%
Lives with others 2,322 272 11.7% 44 1.9%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2004 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Iowa 2004 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 2004, 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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