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Any Disability by County — US Rankings

CDC PLACES 2023 · Age-adjusted prevalence · 2,956/3,144 reporting counties (94% coverage)

Any-disability captures the share of adults who answer affirmatively to at least one of six BRFSS disability questions covering vision, hearing, cognition, mobility, self-care, and independent living. It is the broadest single disability indicator at the county level. PLACES age-adjusts the estimate. The county pattern overlaps heavily with the central-Appalachia and rural-South geography that shows up in the chronic-disease rankings — disability tends to be downstream of decades of cumulative disease burden and unequal access.

How this ranking is built

Source: CDC PLACES 2023 measure year. Methodology: BRFSS survey responses pooled across years, fitted with a small-area statistical model, age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. Confidence intervals (95%) are shown for each county — wider intervals indicate more uncertainty in the modeled estimate, typically driven by smaller populations.

Lowest Any Disability Rates — Top 100 Counties

Counties with the lowest reported any disability prevalence — these counties show the most favorable position on this measure.

#CountyRate
1Somerset County18.9%
2Delaware County19.0%
3Morris County19.3%
4Howard County20.1%
5Bergen County20.1%
6Los Alamos County20.1%
7Falls Church city20.4%
8Hunterdon County20.5%
9Monmouth County20.6%
10Forsyth County20.7%
11Douglas County20.8%
12Western Connecticut Planning Region20.8%
13King County20.8%
14Newport County20.9%
15Teton County20.9%
16Arlington County21.0%
17Montgomery County21.1%
18DuPage County21.2%
19Putnam County21.2%
20Westchester County21.5%
21Washington County21.5%
22Chittenden County21.5%
23Sussex County21.6%
24Bristol County21.6%
25Broomfield County21.7%
26Boulder County21.8%
27Oakland County21.9%
28Nassau County21.9%
29District of Columbia22.0%
30Oconee County22.0%
31Hamilton County22.0%
32Rockingham County22.0%
33Mercer County22.0%
34Saratoga County22.0%
35Addison County22.0%
36Pitkin County22.1%
37Frederick County22.1%
38Nantucket County22.2%
39Fairfax County22.2%
40Washington County22.3%
41Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region22.4%
42Dallas County22.4%
43Carroll County22.4%
44Warren County22.4%
45Summit County22.4%
46Hinsdale County22.6%
47Norfolk County22.6%
48Carver County22.6%
49Loudoun County22.7%
50Ouray County22.8%
51Tompkins County22.8%
52San Mateo County22.9%
53St. Johns County22.9%
54Lake County22.9%
55New York County22.9%
56Geauga County22.9%
57Union County22.9%
58Grand Isle County22.9%
59Ozaukee County23.0%
60Harford County23.1%
61Middlesex County23.1%
62Cass County23.1%
63Santa Clara County23.2%
64Middlesex County23.2%
65Warren County23.2%
66Windsor County23.2%
67Sarpy County23.3%
68Erie County23.3%
69Lincoln County23.3%
70Collin County23.3%
71Clear Creek County23.4%
72San Miguel County23.4%
73Cobb County23.4%
74Burlington County23.4%
75Northwest Hills Planning Region23.5%
76Monroe County23.5%
77Carroll County23.5%
78Washtenaw County23.5%
79Scott County23.5%
80San Juan County23.5%
81San Francisco County23.6%
82Bremer County23.6%
83Winneshiek County23.6%
84Johnson County23.6%
85Olmsted County23.6%
86Cape May County23.6%
87Fort Bend County23.6%
88Jefferson County23.7%
89Kendall County23.7%
90Johnson County23.7%
91Warren County23.7%
92Barnstable County23.7%
93Livingston County23.7%
94Grafton County23.7%
95Travis County23.8%
96Capitol Planning Region23.9%
97Fayette County23.9%
98Saunders County23.9%
99Dutchess County23.9%
100Wake County23.9%

Best 100 counties for Any Disability.

Highest Any Disability Rates — Bottom 100 CountiesCounties with the highest reported any disability prevalence.
#CountyRate
1Oglala Lakota County52.3%
2East Carroll Parish50.1%
3Todd County50.0%
4Kusilvak Census Area49.9%
5Bullock County47.9%
6Claiborne Parish47.8%
7Sioux County47.7%
8Lake County47.5%
9Madison Parish47.3%
10Mingo County46.9%
11Dimmit County46.8%
12Hancock County46.7%
13McDowell County46.6%
14Greene County46.6%
15Zavala County46.4%
16Adair County46.3%
17Humphreys County46.3%
18Perry County46.1%
19Tensas Parish45.8%
20Buffalo County45.6%
21Pemiscot County45.5%
22Desha County45.5%
23Starr County45.3%
24Holmes County45.3%
25Tunica County45.2%
26Quitman County45.2%
27Lee County45.2%
28Pushmataha County45.1%
29Bienville Parish45.0%
30Phillips County45.0%
31Mellette County44.9%
32Sequoyah County44.9%
33Coal County44.9%
34Sharkey County44.9%
35Wilcox County44.9%
36Lowndes County44.9%
37Jim Hogg County44.8%
38Zapata County44.7%
39Seminole County44.7%
40Okfuskee County44.7%
41McIntosh County44.7%
42Corson County44.5%
43Latimer County44.5%
44Yazoo County44.5%
45Muskogee County44.3%
46Issaquena County44.2%
47Morehouse Parish44.2%
48Mississippi County44.1%
49Dunklin County44.1%
50Calhoun County43.9%
51St. Landry Parish43.9%
52Wyoming County43.8%
53Lafayette County43.8%
54Jefferson County43.7%
55Coahoma County43.7%
56Concordia Parish43.7%
57Ziebach County43.6%
58Sunflower County43.6%
59Claiborne County43.6%
60Johnston County43.5%
61Hickory County43.5%
62Red River Parish43.5%
63Webster Parish43.4%
64Evangeline Parish43.4%
65St. Francis County43.4%
66Caddo County43.3%
67McKinley County43.3%
68Franklin Parish43.3%
69McDonald County43.2%
70Noxubee County43.2%
71Bethel Census Area43.2%
72Ozark County43.1%
73Scott County43.0%
74Leflore County43.0%
75St. Helena Parish43.0%
76Catahoula Parish43.0%
77Hughes County42.9%
78Ripley County42.9%
79Sevier County42.9%
80Ashley County42.9%
81Willacy County42.8%
82Haywood County42.8%
83Craig County42.7%
84Choctaw County42.6%
85Caldwell Parish42.6%
86Nevada County42.6%
87Apache County42.6%
88Conecuh County42.6%
89Butler County42.4%
90Woodruff County42.4%
91Logan County42.3%
92Cochran County42.3%
93Okmulgee County42.3%
94Carter County42.3%
95Avoyelles Parish42.3%
96Chicot County42.3%
97Bennett County42.2%
98Le Flore County42.2%
99Glacier County42.2%
100Lawrence County42.2%

Worst 100 counties for Any Disability.

What this ranking suggests

Any-disability is a useful denominator for understanding what share of a county's adult population is navigating some form of functional limitation. The six individual disability rankings on this site (cognition, hearing, mobility, vision, self-care, independent living) decompose this composite into its parts.

Methodology notes & limitations

Estimates are statistical model outputs, not direct measurements. Small counties have wider confidence intervals; treat narrow rank differences in those rows as within-noise. Exact observed/total coverage is reported above. Rows without a reported estimate are excluded for this measure. An absent value may reflect source availability or suppression; the checked-in artifact does not attribute every missing value to one cause. All measures are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. The PLACES dataset uses BRFSS self-reported data — self-report introduces known direction-of-bias in some measures (BMI is under-reported; binge drinking is under-reported), but the bias is roughly uniform across counties so ranking comparability is preserved. See the methodology page for full data-pipeline documentation.

By HealthByCounty Editorial Team

Page revised

Data source: CDC PLACES 2023 measure year. Measure ID: DISABILITY.

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