New Hampshire Disability Statistics From 2005 American Community Survey

Introduction

Index of New Hampshire Pages.

New Hampshire Statistics

New Hampshire Disability Statistics.

Number of Home and Personal Care Workers in New Hampshire.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in New Hampshire.

State Program Data

Medicaid Waiver Data in New Hampshire.

New Hampshire Medicaid HCBS Data.

Federal HCBS Funding to New Hampshire.

State Only Funded HCBS in New Hampshire.

State Waiver Demo Information.

New Hampshire Legal Information

New Hampshire Olmstead Plans and Lawsuits.

New Hampshire PAS Projects

Research/Demo Projects to Improve PAS Workforce.

New Hampshire Resources

Contact Info and Descriptions for all New Hampshire Medicaid Waivers.

New Hampshire Agencies Related to PAS.

New Hampshire resources for employment of persons with disabilities.

New Hampshire Library

New Hampshire PAS Workforce Library.

New Hampshire Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 174,000 people in New Hampshire have a disability, or 14.5% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 30,000 people, or 2.5% 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.

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 New Hampshire
(ages 5 and over)

1,201

174

14.5%

2.5%

Disability Type

Sensory

19.2%

Mobility

27.3%

Cognitive

25.4%

Self-care

Leaving the home

49.9%

Work disability

26.8%

Gender

Male

588

14.1%

2.0%

Female

613

14.8%

3.0%

Age

Children (5-17)

226

7.2%

1.0%

5-15

186

7.7%

1.1%

16-17

4.9%

0.4%

Working Ages (18-64)

821

11.5%

2.0%

18-44

463

8.2%

1.0%

45-64

359

15.9%

3.2%

Elderly (65+)

154

40.8%

7.8%

65-74

28.0%

3.9%

75-84

48.2%

9.4%

85+

78.6%

21.4%

Race

White

1,154

168

14.6%

2.6%

African American

4.6%

0.3%

Asian/Pacific Islander

7.2%

0.0%

American Indian/Alaska Native

28.4%

5.6%

Ethnicity

Hispanic

21.2%

6.3%

Non-Hispanic

1,181

170

14.4%

2.5%

Family Income

In poverty

34.5%

7.1%

Above poverty

1,110

144

12.9%

2.2%

Benefit Recipiency

Social Security (OASDI)

184

43.7%

8.8%

Supplemental Security Income

94.8%

28.6%

Employment (Ages 18-64)

Employed

642

6.0%

0.6%

Unemployed (in labor force)

19.7%

0.5%

Not in labor force

148

34.1%

8.4%

Living Arrangement

Lives alone

125

28.7%

3.9%

Lives with others

1,076

138

12.8%

2.4%

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

About the New Hampshire 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.

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