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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2004 > Nevada

Nevada Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 264,000 people in Nevada have a disability, or 12.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 55,000 people, or 2.6% 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 Nevada
(ages 5 and over)		 2,131 264 12.4% 55 2.6%
Disability Type          
Sensory   82   19 23.0%
Mobility   161   50 30.9%
Cognitive   87   27 31.2%
Self-care   55   55  
Leaving the home   70   37 52.8%
Work disability   144   43 29.6%
Gender          
Male 1,077 130 12.1% 23 2.2%
Female 1,054 133 12.6% 32 3.0%
Age          
Children (5-17) 431 21 4.8% 3 0.6%
    5-15 371 18 4.9% 2 0.6%
    16-17 60 2 4.1% 0 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,446 149 10.3% 32 2.2%
    18-44 902 52 5.8% 10 1.1%
    45-64 543 96 17.7% 22 4.1%
Elderly (65+) 255 94 37.0% 20 8.0%
    65-74 154 44 28.4% 7 4.4%
    75-84 81 36 44.9% 8 9.8%
    85+ 20 14 71.8% 6 28.9%
Race          
White 1,699 218 12.8% 42 2.5%
African American 162 25 15.5% 9 5.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander 156 15 9.8% 3 1.8%
American Indian/Alaska Native 41 6 13.7% 1 2.1%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 467 29 6.3% 5 1.0%
Non-Hispanic 1,664 234 14.1% 51 3.0%
Family Income          
In poverty 259 43 16.6% 14 5.3%
Above poverty 1,868 220 11.8% 42 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 287 119 41.4% 26 9.2%
Supplemental Security Income 21 20 95.8% 6 29.3%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,035 56 5.4% 7 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 70 9 13.3% 1 1.2%
Not in labor force 333 83 24.9% 25 7.4%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 257 56 21.6% 10 3.7%
Lives with others 1,874 208 11.1% 46 2.4%

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

About the Nevada 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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