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California Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 4,268,000 people in California have a disability, or 13.1% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 832,000 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.

Read more about these data.

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 California
(ages 5 and over)		 32,654 4,268 13.1% 832 2.5%
Disability Type
Sensory   1,183   261 22.1%
Mobility   2,570   734 28.6%
Cognitive   1,535   471 30.7%
Self-care   832   832  
Leaving the home   1,241   620 50.0%
Work disability   2,350   682 29.0%
Gender
Male 16,160 1,963 12.1% 328 2.0%
Female 16,493 2,305 14.0% 503 3.1%
Age
Children (5-17) 6,988 342 4.9% 55 0.8%
5-15 5,932 284 4.8% 48 0.8%
16-17 1,056 58 5.5% 6 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 21,968 2,297 10.5% 381 1.7%
18-44 13,761 938 6.8% 125 0.9%
45-64 8,207 1,359 16.6% 256 3.1%
Elderly (65+) 3,697 1,629 44.1% 396 10.7%
65-74 1,936 631 32.6% 122 6.3%
75-84 1,328 679 51.2% 165 12.4%
85+ 434 319 73.6% 109 25.2%
Race
White 20,809 2922 14.0% 553 2.7%
African American 2,189 379 17.3% 87 4.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander 4,578 460 10.0% 95 2.1%
American Indian/Alaska Native 494 114 23.1% 23 4.7%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 11,175 1,098 9.8% 206 1.8%
Non-Hispanic 21,479 3,171 14.8% 626 2.9%
Family Income
In poverty 4,272 749 17.5% 155 3.6%
Above poverty 28,267 3,511 12.4% 675 2.4%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 3,838 1,724 44.9% 412 10.7%
Supplemental Security Income 705 672 95.4% 219 31.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 15,352 856 5.6% 68 0.4%
Unemployed (in labor force) 1,140 136 11.9% 11 1.0%
Not in labor force 5,396 1,302 24.1% 301 5.6%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 3,080 846 27.5% 170 5.5%
Lives with others 29,574 3,422 11.6% 662 2.2%

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


About the California 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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