Florida Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 2,675,000 people in Florida have a disability, or 16.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 491,000 people, or 3.0% 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 Florida (ages 5 and over)	16,250	2,675	16.5%	491	3.0%
Disability Type
Sensory		760		152	20.0%
Mobility		1,672		441	26.4%
Cognitive		922		273	29.6%
Self-care		491		491
Leaving the home		755		357	47.3%
Work disability		1,487		410	27.5%
Gender
Male	7,910	1,250	15.8%	210	2.7%
Female	8,339	1,424	17.1%	282	3.4%
Age
Children (5-17)	2,917	191	6.5%	24	0.8%
5-15	2,455	162	6.6%	22	0.9%
16-17	462	29	6.3%	2	0.4%
Working Ages (18-64)	10,454	1,292	12.4%	235	2.2%
18-44	6,065	462	7.6%	66	1.1%
45-64	4,389	830	18.9%	168	3.8%
Elderly (65+)	2,878	1,192	41.4%	233	8.1%
65-74	1,488	450	30.2%	66	4.5%
75-84	1,060	504	47.5%	97	9.1%
85+	331	239	72.1%	70	21.1%
Race
White	12,784	2196	17.2%	396	3.1%
African American	2,458	372	15.1%	81	3.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander	403	34	8.5%	4	1.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native	123	35	28.7%	8	6.5%
Ethnicity
Hispanic	3,144	394	12.5%	81	2.6%
Non-Hispanic	13,106	2,280	17.4%	411	3.1%
Family Income
In poverty	2,036	527	25.9%	110	5.4%
Above poverty	14,164	2,143	15.1%	381	2.7%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI)	3,177	1,378	43.4%	290	9.1%
Supplemental Security Income	269	257	95.4%	70	25.8%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed	7,433	477	6.4%	43	0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force)	477	73	15.3%	6	1.3%
Not in labor force	2,499	740	29.6%	186	7.4%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone	1,990	595	29.9%	109	5.5%
Lives with others	14,260	2,080	14.6%	383	2.7%

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

About the Florida 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.

Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

• Florida Disability Data From 2005 American Community Survey
• Florida Disability Data From 2004 American Community Survey
• Florida Disability Data From 2003 American Community Survey
• Florida Disability Data From 2002 American Community Survey