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Washington Statistics

Washington Disability Statistics.

Size and characteristics of the PAS workforce in Washington.

Wages for Personal & Home Care Aides in Washington.

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Washington Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 921,000 people in Washington have a disability, or 16.0% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 148,000 people, or 2.6% 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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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 Washington
(ages 5 and over)		 5,764 921 16.0% 148 2.6%
Disability Type
Sensory   274   45 16.4%
Mobility   531   132 24.9%
Cognitive   350   82 23.3%
Self-care   148   148  
Leaving the home   224   105 46.7%
Work disability   475   123 25.8%
Gender
Male 2,858 448 15.7% 63 2.2%
Female 2,906 473 16.3% 85 2.9%
Age
Children (5-17) 1,087 76 6.9% 8 0.8%
5-15 914 62 6.8% 7 0.8%
16-17 174 14 7.9% 1 0.7%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,989 537 13.5% 77 1.9%
18-44 2,393 227 9.5% 27 1.1%
45-64 1,595 311 19.5% 49 3.1%
Elderly (65+) 688 308 44.8% 63 9.1%
65-74 364 123 33.9% 21 5.7%
75-84 242 126 52.0% 25 10.4%
85+ 81 59 72.3% 17 20.7%
Race
White 4,849 805 16.6% 129 2.7%
African American 236 39 16.4% 6 2.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 469 46 9.8% 8 1.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 153 36 23.8% 5 3.3%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 481 51 10.6% 7 1.4%
Non-Hispanic 5,283 870 16.5% 141 2.7%
Family Income
In poverty 674 190 28.3% 37 5.5%
Above poverty 5,070 729 14.4% 111 2.2%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 801 371 46.3% 80 10.0%
Supplemental Security Income 101 98 96.7% 25 24.4%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,853 228 8.0% 15 0.5%
Unemployed (in labor force) 209 38 18.3% 4 2.1%
Not in labor force 894 270 30.2% 57 6.4%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 693 213 30.7% 34 4.9%
Lives with others 5,071 708 14.0% 114 2.3%

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


About the Washington 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:

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