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State Information > Disability Statistics > Virginia

Virginia Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 962,000 people in Virginia have a disability, or 14.1% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 172,000 people, or 2.5% 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 Virginia
(ages 5 and over)		 6,816 962 14.1% 172 2.5%
Disability Type          
Sensory   259   52 20.0%
Mobility   575   153 26.7%
Cognitive   341   88 25.7%
Self-care   172   172  
Leaving the home   268   127 47.3%
Work disability   538   144 26.7%
Gender          
Male 3,304 443 13.4% 66 2.0%
Female 3,512 519 14.8% 106 3.0%
Age          
Children (5-17) 1,305 80 6.1% 9 0.7%
    5-15 1,101 67 6.1% 8 0.7%
    16-17 205 13 6.2% 1 0.4%
Working Ages (18-64) 4,685 518 11.1% 83 1.8%
    18-44 2,763 201 7.3% 29 1.1%
    45-64 1,922 317 16.5% 53 2.8%
Elderly (65+) 826 364 44.0% 81 9.8%
    65-74 453 146 32.1% 25 5.6%
    75-84 287 154 53.6% 33 11.5%
    85+ 86 64 75.4% 22 26.0%
Race          
White 5,023 713 14.2% 121 2.4%
African American 1,334 219 16.4% 45 3.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 355 20 5.7% 4 1.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 52 13 25.9% 3 6.7%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 391 27 6.8% 5 1.3%
Non-Hispanic 6,426 936 14.6% 167 2.6%
Family Income          
In poverty 660 180 27.3% 37 5.6%
Above poverty 6,140 780 12.7% 135 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 958 454 47.4% 102 10.6%
Supplemental Security Income 101 97 95.9% 26 26.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 3,428 209 6.1% 17 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 172 26 14.9% 2 1.2%
Not in labor force 1,006 282 28.0% 64 6.3%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 791 212 26.8% 38 4.8%
Lives with others 6,025 750 12.5% 134 2.2%

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

About the Virginia 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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