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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2005 > Iowa

Iowa Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 397,000 people in Iowa have a disability, or 14.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 64,000 people, or 2.4% 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)		 2,666 397 14.9% 64 2.4%
Disability Type          
Sensory   114   19 16.4%
Mobility   229   58 25.4%
Cognitive   140   32 22.8%
Self-care   64   64  
Leaving the home   99   47 47.1%
Work disability   208   53 25.5%
Gender          
Male 1,312 188 14.4% 26 2.0%
Female 1,354 209 15.4% 38 2.8%
Age          
Children (5-17) 475 28 5.9% 3 0.7%
    5-15 400 23 5.9% 3 0.7%
    16-17 74 5 6.1% 0 0.5%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,782 200 11.2% 26 1.4%
    18-44 1,045 82 7.8% 7 0.7%
    45-64 737 118 16.0% 19 2.5%
Elderly (65+) 409 170 41.5% 35 8.6%
    65-74 205 57 27.7% 10 5.1%
    75-84 150 72 48.3% 15 9.8%
    85+ 55 41 74.4% 10 18.6%
Race          
White 2,537 381 15.0% 61 2.4%
African American 63 12 18.7% 2 3.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander 39 4 9.1% 1 2.4%
American Indian/Alaska Native 15 6 40.7% 1 5.1%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 89 7 8.3% 2 1.8%
Non-Hispanic 2,578 390 15.1% 63 2.4%
Family Income          
In poverty 299 70 23.4% 13 4.2%
Above poverty 2,360 326 13.8% 52 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 476 207 43.5% 44 9.3%
Supplemental Security Income 36 35 96.2% 8 23.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,400 88 6.3% 5 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 72 15 21.2% 1 1.4%
Not in labor force 306 96 31.3% 19 6.3%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 341 111 32.7% 19 5.5%
Lives with others 2,325 286 12.3% 46 2.0%

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

About the Iowa 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.


Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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