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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2005 > Delaware

Delaware Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 115,000 people in Delaware have a disability, or 15.0% 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)		 767 115 15.0% 20 2.7%
Disability Type          
Sensory   31   5 16.8%
Mobility   69   18 26.5%
Cognitive   37   10 26.9%
Self-care   20   20  
Leaving the home   28   14 51.1%
Work disability   56   16 28.1%
Gender          
Male 376 55 14.7% 8 2.0%
Female 392 60 15.3% 13 3.3%
Age          
Children (5-17) 141 12 8.7% 1 1.0%
    5-15 120 10 8.7% 1 1.2%
    16-17 21 2 8.4% 0 0.3%
Working Ages (18-64) 518 62 11.9% 10 1.9%
    18-44 306 26 8.5% 4 1.2%
    45-64 212 36 16.7% 6 2.9%
Elderly (65+) 107 42 38.7% 9 8.4%
    65-74 57 18 30.9% 3 5.8%
    75-84 40 17 42.9% 3 8.2%
    85+ 10 7 65.5% 2 23.7%
Race          
White 580 90 15.6% 16 2.7%
African American 155 22 14.1% 4 2.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 19 2 7.9% 0 1.5%
American Indian/Alaska Native 5 2 35.1% 0 5.1%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 43 5 12.6% 0 1.1%
Non-Hispanic 724 110 15.2% 20 2.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 79 20 25.7% 4 4.9%
Above poverty 687 95 13.8% 16 2.4%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 126 52 41.4% 11 8.8%
Supplemental Security Income 10 10 96.9% 2 23.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 383 27 6.9% 3 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 25 3 11.9% 0 0.8%
Not in labor force 108 32 29.6% 7 6.3%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 84 23 27.1% 4 4.3%
Lives with others 684 93 13.6% 17 2.4%

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

About the Delaware 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.


Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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