Disability in America: People with an Independent Living (IL) Difficulty (2015)

This map of the United States shows rates of independent living difficulty by county. Rates are broken into five categories ranging from 0.0% to 23%. Rates of independent living difficulty appear to be higher (9.31-23%) in the Appalachia region (particularly along the Kentucky-West Virginia border) and throughout the South, northern Michigan, northern Maine, New Mexico, northern California, parts of Oregon. Rates appear to be lowest (0.0-9.3%) in Alaska, the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions, northern Nevada, Wyoming and Utah. This map is part of the Disability in America Map Series. The information used to create this map came from the American Community Survey. To browse the data these maps were created with, use our Disability Counts Data Finder tool