A Look at Key Disability Demographics and Statistics
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A Look at Key Disability Demographics and Statistics
By Alyssa MacKenzie
Published June 10, 2021
How many people in the United States have a disability?
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 61 million adults in the United States — or roughly one in four — live with some kind of disability.
With one in three people in the South having a disability, the highest concentration of people living with a disability is the South. Disability is especially common in certain demographics: one in five adults with a disability are 65 or older, one in four are women, and two in five are non-latinx indigenous Americans and Alaskans.
Although it may sound counterintuitive to some, disability often equates to diminished health care access: one in three adults with disabilities has healthcare needs that have been unmet due to cost in the last year, and one in four has not had a routine checkup within the past year, per the CDC. Disability too-often goes hand-in-hand with financial insecurity.
