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State information > Delaware Disability Statistics Table From 2004 American Community Survey

Delaware Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 119,000 people in Delaware have a disability, or 15.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 20,000 people, or 2.7% 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.

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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 Delaware
(ages 5 and over)		 752 119 15.8% 20 2.7%
Disability Type          
Sensory   28   5 19.5%
Mobility   72   17 23.5%
Cognitive   41   9 21.4%
Self-care   20   20  
Leaving the home   29   15 51.9%
Work disability   58   17 29.6%
Gender          
Male 363 56 15.4% 10 2.8%
Female 388 63 16.1% 10 2.5%
Age          
Children (5-17) 139 12 8.6% 1 0.7%
    5-15 118 11 9.0% 1 0.7%
    16-17 21 1 6.0% 0 0.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 508 63 12.5% 9 1.8%
    18-44 306 28 9.3% 2 0.8%
    45-64 203 35 17.3% 7 3.2%
Elderly (65+) 104 43 41.5% 10 9.7%
    65-74 57 18 31.2% 4 6.5%
    75-84 37 18 50.3% 4 11.3%
    85+ 10 7 67.5% 2 21.3%
Race          
White 571 90 15.7% 15 2.7%
African American 152 26 17.4% 4 3.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 22 2 7.3% 0 0.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 5 1 29.8% 0 8.0%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 42 7 15.8% 1 2.3%
Non-Hispanic 710 112 15.8% 19 2.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 73 21 28.4% 3 3.9%
Above poverty 676 98 14.4% 17 2.5%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 121 52 42.9% 13 10.5%
Supplemental Security Income 11 11 95.8% 3 22.0%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 374 27 7.1% 1 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 27 5 18.4% 0 1.0%
Not in labor force 104 32 30.5% 7 6.9%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 85 23 27.4% 4 4.4%
Lives with others 667 95 14.3% 16 2.4%

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

About the Delaware 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.

Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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