Mississippi Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 560,000 people in Mississippi have a disability, or 21.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 122,000 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.

Read more about these data.

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 Mississippi (ages 5 and over)	2,619	560	21.4%	122	4.7%
Disability Type
Sensory		164		40	24.3%
Mobility		354		108	30.6%
Cognitive		218		72	33.2%
Self-care		122		122
Leaving the home		161		87	54.1%
Work disability		340		103	30.4%
Gender
Male	1,253	258	20.6%	48	3.8%
Female	1,366	302	22.1%	74	5.5%
Age
Children (5-17)	535	43	8.0%	6	1.1%
5-15	448	34	7.7%	5	1.1%
16-17	87	9	10.1%	1	1.1%
Working Ages (18-64)	1,749	318	18.2%	66	3.8%
18-44	1,061	123	11.6%	23	2.1%
45-64	689	195	28.3%	43	6.3%
Elderly (65+)	335	199	59.5%	50	15.0%
65-74	191	94	49.1%	18	9.6%
75-84	110	76	69.4%	20	17.8%
85+	33	29	86.2%	12	36.9%
Race
White	1,626	345	21.2%	70	4.3%
African American	947	211	22.3%	51	5.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander	24	2	8.2%	0	1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native	22	7	31.0%	2	10.2%
Ethnicity
Hispanic	44	5	11.9%	1	2.7%
Non-Hispanic	2,575	554	21.5%	121	4.7%
Family Income
In poverty	534	168	31.5%	41	7.8%
Above poverty	2,077	391	18.8%	81	3.9%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI)	436	268	61.5%	67	15.4%
Supplemental Security Income	86	84	97.9%	25	29.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed	1,160	98	8.5%	8	0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force)	113	18	15.8%	2	2.0%
Not in labor force	466	201	43.0%	55	11.9%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone	288	118	41.0%	26	9.1%
Lives with others	2,331	442	19.0%	96	4.1%

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

About the Mississippi 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:

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