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State Information > Disability Statistics > West Virginia

West Virginia Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 406,000 people in West Virginia have a disability, or 24.0% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 79,000 people, or 4.7% 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 West Virginia
(ages 5 and over)		 1,688 406 24.0% 79 4.7%
Disability Type          
Sensory   130   32 25.0%
Mobility   270   74 27.4%
Cognitive   147   46 31.3%
Self-care   79   79  
Leaving the home   119   61 51.5%
Work disability   257   68 26.6%
Gender          
Male 828 202 24.4% 35 4.3%
Female 860 204 23.7% 44 5.1%
Age          
Children (5-17) 292 23 8.0% 3 1.2%
    5-15 245 20 8.2% 3 1.2%
    16-17 46 3 7.0% 0 0.8%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,129 236 20.9% 43 3.8%
    18-44 613 78 12.7% 10 1.7%
    45-64 516 158 30.6% 33 6.3%
Elderly (65+) 267 147 54.8% 33 12.2%
    65-74 144 62 42.9% 10 6.8%
    75-84 92 59 64.1% 12 13.4%
    85+ 31 25 83.3% 10 33.9%
Race          
White 1,622 389 24.0% 74 4.6%
African American 57 16 27.8% 4 7.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 12 1 5.9% 0 0.6%
American Indian/Alaska Native 11 4 35.9% 1 6.3%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 9 1 12.1% 0 5.5%
Non-Hispanic 1,679 404 24.1% 78 4.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 308 113 36.7% 23 7.4%
Above poverty 1,375 292 21.3% 56 4.1%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 363 213 58.7% 48 13.1%
Supplemental Security Income 62 60 97.0% 18 28.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 709 60 8.5% 4 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 55 9 17.0% 1 1.0%
Not in labor force 363 166 45.7% 38 10.5%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 205 94 45.6% 20 9.8%
Lives with others 1,482 312 21.0% 59 4.0%

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

About the West 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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