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. 2023 May 11;20:E37. doi: 10.5888/pcd20.230004

Figure 1.

This figure shows 6 US county maps of disability prevalence, one for each type of functional disability: hearing, vision, cognition, mobility, self-care, and independent living. Percentages for each disability ranged as follows: for hearing, 3.5% to 15.3%; for vision, 2.4% to 17.2%; for cognition, 6.2% to 29.4%; for mobility, 5.9% to 34.9%; for self-care, 1.9% to 12.7%; and for independent living, 3.6% to 19.8%. Counties in Alaska, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia had a higher prevalence of hearing disability. For other disability types, counties with a higher prevalence are in the South, along the southern Mississippi river, the Applachian Mountains, the US-Mexico border, in parts of New Mexico, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, and along the Carolina coasts.

County-level model-based estimates among adults aged ≥18 years by disability type, United States, 2018. Maps were classified into 5 classes by using Jenks natural breaks. Data sources: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2018 (10), US Census Bureau (15,16).