Fact · Accessibility and health
4.76percent
About 1 in 21 US adults reports a vision disability, according to the CDC's breakdown of disability types.
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In the source's own words
“Mobility disability was the most common disability, reported by approximately 1 in 7 adults, followed by cognition (1 in 10), independent living (1 in 15), hearing (1 in 17), vision (1 in 21), and self-care (1 in 27).”
Prevalence of Disabilities and Health Care Access by Disability Status and Type Among Adults, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2025, Main findings, Disability findings.
Open the original- What it measures
- The CDC's breakdown of six disability types, from 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data analyzed in an MMWR report and summarized on the CDC page. Vision loss can make reading a screen and checking typed text hard, which is one reason voice input helps some people.
- What it does not show
- Self-reported in a telephone survey. A vision disability is not the same as blindness, and most people with one can still type.
In the data
A row of Disability Statistics: Conditions That Make Typing Hard, as CDC 2016, vision disability, US adults: 4.8 percent.
- Condition
- Vision loss or blindness
- Who
- US adults
- Country
- United States
- How measured
- Self-reported
- Year
- 2016
- Note
- 1 in 21 is 4.76 percent, rounded to two decimals.