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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2004 > Massachusetts

Massachusetts Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 764,000 people in Massachusetts have a disability, or 13.2% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 127,000 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 Massachusetts
(ages 5 and over)		 5,807 764 13.2% 127 2.2%
Disability Type          
Sensory   195   40 20.5%
Mobility   422   113 26.8%
Cognitive   270   62 23.0%
Self-care   127   127  
Leaving the home   215   96 44.8%
Work disability   446   106 23.9%
Gender          
Male 2,795 354 12.7% 54 1.9%
Female 3,011 410 13.6% 72 2.4%
Age          
Children (5-17) 1,065 67 6.3% 6 0.5%
    5-15 908 55 6.1% 5 0.6%
    16-17 157 12 7.5% 1 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,952 389 9.8% 53 1.3%
    18-44 2,366 165 7.0% 19 0.8%
    45-64 1,586 224 14.1% 34 2.1%
Elderly (65+) 789 308 39.0% 68 8.6%
    65-74 387 106 27.4% 16 4.1%
    75-84 297 130 43.8% 26 8.8%
    85+ 105 72 68.5% 26 24.9%
Race          
White 4,950 661 13.3% 110 2.2%
African American 375 54 14.4% 7 2.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 276 20 7.3% 3 1.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native 29 9 29.8% 1 3.4%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 432 65 15.1% 9 2.1%
Non-Hispanic 5,375 699 13.0% 117 2.2%
Family Income          
In poverty 535 141 26.4% 26 4.9%
Above poverty 5,256 620 11.8% 100 1.9%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 880 365 41.5% 79 8.9%
Supplemental Security Income 115 110 95.6% 22 19.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 2,978 139 4.7% 8 0.3%
Unemployed (in labor force) 188 24 12.7% 2 0.8%
Not in labor force 780 226 29.0% 44 5.6%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 717 211 29.4% 41 5.7%
Lives with others 5,089 554 10.9% 86 1.7%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2004 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Massachusetts 2004 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 2004, 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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