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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2004 > Utah

Utah Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 246,000 people in Utah have a disability, or 11.6% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 35,000 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.

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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 Utah
(ages 5 and over)		 2,116 246 11.6% 35 1.7%
Disability Type          
Sensory   75   11 14.5%
Mobility   125   31 24.5%
Cognitive   94   19 19.7%
Self-care   35   35  
Leaving the home   60   26 43.9%
Work disability   117   31 26.3%
Gender          
Male 1,056 113 10.7% 15 1.4%
Female 1,060 133 12.5% 20 1.9%
Age          
Children (5-17) 502 29 5.7% 2 0.3%
    5-15 426 24 5.7% 2 0.4%
    16-17 76 5 6.0% 0 0.0%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,416 137 9.7% 18 1.3%
    18-44 980 69 7.0% 7 0.7%
    45-64 436 68 15.7% 12 2.7%
Elderly (65+) 197 80 40.8% 15 7.5%
    65-74 106 32 30.5% 3 3.2%
    75-84 67 31 46.2% 7 10.3%
    85+ 24 17 71.4% 5 19.1%
Race          
White 1,951 230 11.8% 33 1.7%
African American 20 3 13.6% 1 3.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 66 7 10.1% 1 0.8%
American Indian/Alaska Native 20 3 16.8% 1 2.5%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 216 18 8.2% 2 0.9%
Non-Hispanic 1,900 228 12.0% 33 1.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 226 42 18.7% 5 2.4%
Above poverty 1,885 203 10.8% 29 1.6%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 217 92 42.3% 18 8.2%
Supplemental Security Income 18 17 93.2% 6 31.7%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,048 67 6.4% 4 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 69 12 17.3% 1 1.4%
Not in labor force 294 58 19.6% 14 4.7%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 146 44 30.0% 6 4.4%
Lives with others 1,970 202 10.3% 29 1.4%

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

About the Utah 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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