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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2005 > Montana

Montana Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 140,000 people in Montana have a disability, or 16.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 23,000 people, or 2.7% 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 Montana
(ages 5 and over)		 842 140 16.7% 23 2.7%
Disability Type          
Sensory   51   8 15.1%
Mobility   88   21 24.0%
Cognitive   46   12 26.7%
Self-care   23   23  
Leaving the home   30   16 51.9%
Work disability   70   19 27.6%
Gender          
Male 417 69 16.6% 10 2.3%
Female 425 71 16.7% 13 3.2%
Age          
Children (5-17) 143 10 6.8% 2 1.7%
    5-15 118 8 7.0% 2 1.9%
    16-17 25 2 6.1% 0 0.8%
Working Ages (18-64) 579 76 13.1% 11 1.9%
    18-44 315 30 9.4% 5 1.5%
    45-64 264 46 17.6% 6 2.4%
Elderly (65+) 120 55 45.4% 9 7.8%
    65-74 67 23 34.4% 4 5.4%
    75-84 39 20 52.5% 3 7.5%
    85+ 14 11 77.8% 3 20.2%
Race          
White 783 131 16.8% 22 2.8%
African American 3 1 15.8% 0 0.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 8 1 6.8% 0 2.8%
American Indian/Alaska Native 57 11 19.3% 2 3.0%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 20 2 8.1% 1 3.6%
Non-Hispanic 822 139 16.9% 22 2.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 114 28 24.6% 8 7.1%
Above poverty 726 112 15.4% 15 2.0%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 144 66 45.7% 12 8.5%
Supplemental Security Income 15 14 97.7% 6 38.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 434 38 8.7% 2 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 24 4 15.9% 0 1.9%
Not in labor force 118 34 28.8% 9 7.4%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 113 33 29.4% 6 5.7%
Lives with others 729 107 14.7% 17 2.3%

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

About the Montana 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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