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Maine Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 228,000 people in Maine have a disability, or 18.7% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 33,000 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.

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 Maine
(ages 5 and over)		 1,221 228 18.7% 33 2.7%
Disability Type
Sensory   64   10 15.5%
Mobility   127   30 23.5%
Cognitive   89   16 18.3%
Self-care   33   33  
Leaving the home   56   22 40.3%
Work disability   120   26 21.7%
Gender
Male 592 117 19.7% 15 2.6%
Female 629 111 17.7% 18 2.8%
Age
Children (5-17) 205 24 11.5% 3 1.5%
5-15 170 20 11.7% 3 1.7%
16-17 35 4 10.5% 0 0.6%
Working Ages (18-64) 833 126 15.1% 15 1.8%
18-44 453 49 10.8% 5 1.2%
45-64 380 77 20.3% 10 2.6%
Elderly (65+) 183 78 42.9% 15 8.2%
65-74 95 28 29.7% 4 4.5%
75-84 65 34 51.8% 7 10.2%
85+ 23 16 72.1% 4 17.4%
Race
White 1,191 225 18.9% 33 2.8%
African American 12 1 10.7% 0 0.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander 11 1 7.5% 0 0.9%
American Indian/Alaska Native 13 3 27.6% 1 5.2%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 11 2 17.9% 0 3.7%
Non-Hispanic 1,209 226 18.7% 33 2.7%
Family Income
In poverty 150 54 35.8% 7 4.7%
Above poverty 1,064 173 16.3% 26 2.5%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 222 104 46.8% 18 8.0%
Supplemental Security Income 29 27 94.0% 5 18.7%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 622 48 7.7% 3 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 33 8 24.1% 0 1.1%
Not in labor force 174 70 40.2% 12 6.6%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 146 51 35.1% 7 4.8%
Lives with others 1,075 177 16.4% 26 2.4%

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


About the Maine 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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