IG of the Day: Disability Prevalence by State

Posted on March 3, 2013 by James A. Bacon| 3 Comments

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From “Disability Characteristics of Income-Based Government Assistance Recipients in the United States: 2011,” published by the U.S. Census.

Nationally, 30.4% of all adult Americans receiving social assistance of one kind of another are classified as having a disability, meaning they have impaired vision, hearing, mobility or cognitive functioning. The numbers for Virginia:

Government assistance recipients: 859,000
Percentage of recipients with disability: 33.4%
Percentage with cognitive difficulty: 15.9%
Percentage with ambulatory difficulty: 20.3%
Percentage with self-care difficulty: 17.4%

– JAB

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3 Responses to IG of the Day: Disability Prevalence by State

  1. Peter Galuszka | March 4, 2013 at 8:00 am |

    Hmmm,
    et’s see. What do West Virginia, Kentucky, Wyoming and (to some extent) Alabama have in common? They are all coal states. See the connect?

  2. larryg | March 4, 2013 at 4:10 pm |

    hmm… what about Maine and surrounding? This IS curious.

  3. meade.anderson | March 4, 2013 at 8:48 pm |

    Hmmm, seems to follow degrees of red…

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