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Tennessee Disability Data Table From the 2004 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2004

An estimated 959,000 people in Tennessee have a disability, or 17.9% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 181,000 people, or 3.4% 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 Tennessee
(ages 5 and over)		 5,360 959 17.9% 181 3.4%
Disability Type
Sensory   261   55 21.0%
Mobility   615   166 26.9%
Cognitive   333   97 29.0%
Self-care   181   181  
Leaving the home   285   129 45.3%
Work disability   567   149 26.3%
Gender
Male 2,595 436 16.8% 77 3.0%
Female 2,765 523 18.9% 104 3.7%
Age
Children (5-17) 996 73 7.3% 8 0.8%
5-15 851 60 7.0% 8 0.9%
16-17 145 13 8.9% 0 0.2%
Working Ages (18-64) 3,661 544 14.8% 97 2.7%
18-44 2,197 219 10.0% 29 1.3%
45-64 1,464 325 22.2% 68 4.7%
Elderly (65+) 703 343 48.8% 75 10.7%
65-74 395 150 37.9% 25 6.4%
75-84 243 139 57.2% 32 13.3%
85+ 65 54 83.3% 17 26.7%
Race
White 4,359 800 18.4% 146 3.4%
African American 869 147 16.9% 34 3.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 82 4 4.7% 1 0.7%
American Indian/Alaska Native 39 13 33.5% 3 7.1%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 143 13 8.9% 1 0.5%
Non-Hispanic 5,217 946 18.1% 180 3.4%
Family Income
In poverty 747 231 30.8% 42 5.7%
Above poverty 4,595 726 15.8% 138 3.0%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 865 450 52.0% 104 12.1%
Supplemental Security Income 101 97 95.7% 28 28.1%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 2,584 182 7.0% 14 0.6%
Unemployed (in labor force) 191 38 19.8% 3 1.4%
Not in labor force 872 324 37.1% 80 9.2%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 651 212 32.6% 40 6.1%
Lives with others 4,709 747 15.9% 141 3.0%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2004 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the Tennessee 2004 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 2004, 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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