Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 with one or more serious difficulties in hearing, vision, cognitive ability, ambulatory ability, self-care, or independent living (e.g., in 2016-2020, 3.4% of California children had major disabilities).
Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (Aug. 2022).
Footnote: Estimates exclude children in institutional group quarters and those in the active-duty military. Major disabilities include serious difficulties in hearing and vision among all children, serious difficulties in cognitive ability, ambulatory ability, and self-care among children ages 5-17, and serious difficulties in independent living among children ages 15-17. Data are displayed for geographies with populations of at least 10,000 based on 2020 estimates. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to percentages that have been suppressed because the margin of error was greater than 5 percentage points. N/A means that data are not available. Some regions listed are Census Designated Places (CDPs), such as East Los Angeles; CDPs are communities within the unincorporated part of a county. Because of disruptions to data collection in 2020, American Community Survey estimates for 2016-2020 did not meet statistical quality requirements and have larger than usual margins of error; see Information and Advice on 2020 Federal Data Quality and Use.
