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Texas Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 2,895,000 people in Texas have a disability, or 14.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 479,000 people, or 2.4% 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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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.
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 Texas
(ages 5 and over)		 19,586 2,895 14.8% 479 2.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   776   148 19.1%
Mobility   1,629   430 26.4%
Cognitive   913   264 29.0%
Self-care   479   479  
Leaving the home   891   342 38.4%
Work disability   1,362   354 26.0%
Gender
Male 9,636 1,386 14.4% 206 2.1%
Female 9,950 1,509 15.2% 274 2.8%
Age
Children (5-17) 4,404 281 6.4% 36 0.8%
5-15 3,768 235 6.2% 32 0.8%
16-17 637 46 7.3% 4 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 13,150 1,661 12.6% 246 1.9%
18-44 8,512 698 8.2% 77 0.9%
45-64 4,638 963 20.8% 169 3.6%
Elderly (65+) 2,031 953 46.9% 198 9.7%
65-74 1,148 430 37.5% 65 5.7%
75-84 703 385 54.8% 87 12.4%
85+ 181 138 76.3% 46 25.3%
Race
White 14,729 2157 14.6% 345 2.3%
African American 2,213 396 17.9% 77 3.5%
Asian/Pacific Islander 701 60 8.5% 8 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 163 46 28.3% 7 4.1%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 6,455 794 12.3% 132 2.0%
Non-Hispanic 13,131 2,101 16.0% 348 2.6%
Family Income
In poverty 2,981 597 20.0% 121 4.1%
Above poverty 16,550 2,295 13.9% 358 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 2,334 1,152 49.4% 249 10.7%
Supplemental Security Income 277 262 94.6% 78 28.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 9,187 722 7.9% 45 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 743 113 15.3% 12 1.7%
Not in labor force 3,158 822 26.0% 189 6.0%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 1,878 535 28.5% 100 5.3%
Lives with others 17,708 2,360 13.3% 379 2.1%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2002 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Texas 2002 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 2002, 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.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

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