Disability Impacts All of Us

Percentage of adults with functional disability types from CDC data

• 13.7 percent of U.S. adults have a mobility disability with serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs.
• 10.8 percent of U.S. adults have a cognition disability with serious difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions.
• 6.8 percent of U.S. adults have an independent living disability with difficulty doing errands alone.
• 5.9 percent of U.S. adults are deaf or have serious difficulty hearing
• 4.6 percent of U.S. adults have a vision disability with blindness or serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses.
• 3.6 percent of U.S. adults have a self-care disability with difficulty dressing or bathing.