State	Total Reporting Sensory Disability	Total Employed	Total Not Employed
Alabama	83,056	35,722	47,334
Alaska	12,129	6,487	5,642
Arizona	71,384	35,607	35,777
Arkansas	52,686	24,322	28,364
California	404,584	187,311	217,273
Colorado	57,841	34,013	23,828
Connecticut	36,597	19,904	16,693
Delaware	8,851	4,585	4,266
District of Columbia	8,310	3,361	4,949
Florida	214,418	103,223	111,195
Georgia	116,093	56,325	59,768
Hawaii	14,087	6,784	7,303
Idaho	21,175	12,028	9,147
Illinois	140,778	71,293	69,485
Indiana	91,906	50,585	41,321
Iowa	36,280	21,897	14,383
Kansas	36,843	21,695	15,148
Kentucky	89,235	34,539	54,696
Louisiana	79,039	33,858	45,181
Maine	21,131	10,971	10,160
Maryland	63,263	34,779	28,484
Massachusetts	72,306	37,647	34,659
Michigan	133,796	66,886	66,910
Minnesota	54,724	34,044	20,680
Mississippi	55,620	22,791	32,829
Missouri	82,909	43,182	39,727
Montana	15,868	8,900	6,968
Nebraska	21,043	13,151	7,892
Nevada	29,553	15,801	13,752
New Hampshire	16,353	9,882	6,471
New Jersey	84,363	41,929	42,434
New Mexico	32,019	14,976	17,043
New York	218,617	94,911	123,706
North Carolina	122,845	61,064	61,781
North Dakota	8,108	5,145	2,963
Ohio	160,006	82,839	77,167
Oklahoma	71,111	36,249	34,862
Oregon	54,707	30,637	24,070
Pennsylvania	158,365	78,092	80,273
Rhode Island	12,713	6,243	6,470
South Carolina	67,162	30,369	36,793
South Dakota	9,925	6,110	3,815
Tennessee	108,899	49,818	59,081
Texas	300,085	151,037	149,048
Utah	28,473	18,164	10,309
Vermont	9,145	5,303	3,842
Virginia	90,525	47,850	42,675
Washington	98,647	53,547	45,100
West Virginia	44,649	14,977	29,672
Wisconsin	62,356	37,051	25,305
Wyoming	8,599	5,171	3,428

Note: People 5 years old and older are considered to have a sensory disability if they report one or more of the following long-lasting conditions: blindness, deafness, or severe vision or hearing impairment. Employment refers to civilians 16 years old and older who do any work at all during the week as paid employees, work in their own business, farm, profession, or work 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in a family business or farm. Employed does not refer to people who work only around their own house, work as unpaid volunteers, or are on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces.

To calculate the percent of those employed (or not employed) with a sensory disability by state, divide the number of those employed (or not employed) for a particular state by the total number of people reporting a sensory disability in the same state and multiply the result by 100. Example: Calculate the percent of those employed with a sensory disability in Alabama. This calculation would be: 35,722/83,056=.4300 and.4300x100=43.00%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.