Economic Justice

Building Your Inclusive Workplace

Disability Impacts all of us.

• Communities
• Livelihood
• Health

A snapshot of disability in the United States.

• 22 percent of adults in the United States have some type of disability.
• The percentage of people living with select disabilities in each state is highest in the Southeast.

Percentage of adults with select functional disability types*:

• 13 percent of people with a disability have a mobility disability with serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs.
• 10.6 percent of people with a disability have a cognition disability with serious difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions.
• 6.5 percent of people with a disability have an independent living disability with difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping.
• 4.6 percent of people with a disability have a vision disability with blindness or serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses.
• 3.6 percent of people with a disability have a self-care disability with difficulty dressing or bathing.

* This data source does not assess deafness or serious difficulty hearing. Therefore state-level data on the number of people who have hearing difficulties was not collected and results in a likely underestimate in total number of people with disabilities in the U.S.

Brought to you by the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. The Division of Human Development and Disability.