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State Information > Disability Statistics > Wisconsin

Wisconsin Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 693,000 people in Wisconsin have a disability, or 13.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 111,000 people, or 2.2% 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 Wisconsin
(ages 5 and over)		 5,058 693 13.7% 111 2.2%
Disability Type          
Sensory   182   29 16.0%
Mobility   390   99 25.4%
Cognitive   241   56 23.4%
Self-care   111   111  
Leaving the home   171   77 44.8%
Work disability   356   91 25.5%
Gender          
Male 2,485 334 13.4% 48 1.9%
Female 2,573 359 13.9% 63 2.5%
Age          
Children (5-17) 965 68 7.0% 6 0.6%
    5-15 802 54 6.7% 6 0.7%
    16-17 163 14 8.3% 1 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,422 360 10.5% 55 1.6%
    18-44 2,002 144 7.2% 15 0.8%
    45-64 1,420 217 15.3% 39 2.8%
Elderly (65+) 671 265 39.4% 50 7.5%
    65-74 342 96 28.0% 17 5.1%
    75-84 247 111 44.9% 17 6.8%
    85+ 83 58 70.6% 16 19.5%
Race          
White 4,538 613 13.5% 98 2.2%
African American 301 55 18.2% 10 3.2%
Asian/Pacific Islander 110 9 8.2% 2 1.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 60 14 22.6% 2 3.0%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 204 22 11.0% 2 0.8%
Non-Hispanic 4,854 670 13.8% 109 2.3%
Family Income          
In poverty 498 123 24.8% 21 4.2%
Above poverty 4,544 567 12.5% 90 2.0%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 799 331 41.4% 69 8.6%
Supplemental Security Income 77 75 96.6% 19 24.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 2,632 159 6.0% 11 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 164 31 18.9% 3 1.8%
Not in labor force 621 170 27.4% 41 6.5%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 642 184 28.7% 35 5.4%
Lives with others 4,417 509 11.5% 76 1.7%

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

About the Wisconsin 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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