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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2005 > Minnesota

Minnesota Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 578,000 people in Minnesota have a disability, or 12.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 94,000 people, or 2.0% 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 Minnesota
(ages 5 and over)		 4,634 578 12.5% 94 2.0%
Disability Type          
Sensory   158   22 14.1%
Mobility   315   83 26.3%
Cognitive   199   43 21.7%
Self-care   94   94  
Leaving the home   139   62 44.7%
Work disability   291   72 24.8%
Gender          
Male 2,297 265 11.6% 38 1.7%
Female 2,336 312 13.4% 56 2.4%
Age          
Children (5-17) 901 55 6.1% 8 0.9%
    5-15 755 46 6.1% 8 1.0%
    16-17 146 9 6.2% 0 0.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,163 302 9.5% 43 1.3%
    18-44 1,897 128 6.7% 15 0.8%
    45-64 1,266 174 13.8% 28 2.2%
Elderly (65+) 569 221 38.7% 44 7.7%
    65-74 295 74 25.1% 13 4.4%
    75-84 205 96 47.1% 17 8.2%
    85+ 70 50 72.1% 14 19.8%
Race          
White 4,150 515 12.4% 83 2.0%
African American 200 34 17.1% 5 2.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 182 16 8.6% 3 1.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 70 16 22.4% 3 3.6%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 161 13 8.2% 3 2.0%
Non-Hispanic 4,473 565 12.6% 91 2.0%
Family Income          
In poverty 402 101 25.2% 17 4.3%
Above poverty 4,217 475 11.3% 77 1.8%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 670 271 40.4% 52 7.8%
Supplemental Security Income 61 60 98.4% 15 25.5%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 2,493 137 5.5% 11 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 138 27 19.2% 3 2.0%
Not in labor force 528 139 26.2% 29 5.5%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 559 152 27.3% 24 4.3%
Lives with others 4,075 425 10.4% 70 1.7%

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

About the Minnesota 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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