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SAN LUIS OBISPO REGION COORDINATED HUMAN SERVICES-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN eventually support. But for purposes of developing an estimate of demand for transportation, it is necessary to consider the individual likely to be traveling on his or her own and not the dependent child. For that reason, only the adult population is presented here. 2000 Census Attribute, Summary File 3 Table 3-11 SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY TARGET POPULATIONS for SAFETEA-LU PROGRAMS: JARC, New Freedoms, and Section 5310 People by Category [2000] % of Population Subgroup % of Total SLO County Population San Luis Obispo County Total Population [1] 246,681 100% ADULTS 16-64 [2] 164,893 67% Low-income (ages 18-64) (Below poverty level as defined by the 21,534 9% Census Bureau) [3] Low-income adults as percentage of age 16-64 population 13% Adults "go-outside-home" disability, ages 16-64 (noninsitutionalized) 5,909 2% [4] Disabled adults as percentage of age 16-64 population 4% SENIORS [2] 35,679 14% Seniors, ages 65-74 18,020 51% 7% Seniors, ages 75-84 13,393 38% 5% Seniors, ages 85+ 4,266 12% 2% Low Income Seniors (Below poverty level as defined by the Census Bureau) [3] 2,029 6% 1% Seniors "go-outside-home" disability (non-institutionalized) [4] 5,317 2% Disabled seniors as percentage of all seniors. 15% TOTAL TARGET POPULATION RANGES Low End: Adults with disabilities (16-64) and only seniors 75+ 23,568 10% Mid Range: Adults with disabilites (16-64) and all seniors 65+ 41,588 17% Hi End: Low income adults (16-64) and all seniors 65+ 57,213 23% [1] Census 2000 Summary File 3, Total Population. [2] Extrapolated from Census 2000 Summary File 3, Sex by Age. [3] Extrapolated from Census 2000 Summary File 3, Poverty Status in 1999 by age. [4] Extrapolated from Census 2000 Summary File 3, Age by types of disability for the civilian non-institutionalized population 5 years & over with disabilities. The "go-outside-the-home" disability includes those who because of a physical, mental or emotional condition lasting 6 months or more, have difficulty going outside the home alone to shop or to medical appointments. [5] See footnote 2. [6] See footnote 4. [7] See footnote 3. Poverty Levels For the 2000 Census, the San Luis Obispo County total population was established as 246,681. Of this total, 9 percent were identified as at or below the poverty levels as defined by the U.S. Census, or 21,534 adults and representing 13 percent of the adult population group, age 16 to 64. Definitions of poverty by the U.S. Census are made on the 45 OCTOBER 2007
SAN LUIS OBISPO REGION COORDINATED HUMAN SERVICES-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN basis of a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition. When a family’s income is less than the threshold for a family of that size and type, then that family and every individual in it is considered to be in poverty. These thresholds do not vary geographically. 5 The San Luis Obispo region’s proportion of 9 percent of persons at poverty levels is below the statewide mean of 13.3 percent and the comparable national mean of 13 percent for the United States as a whole. 6 Disability Characteristics The second population group of interest is persons with disabilities. A disability is characterized by 2000 Census as persons with difficulty performing selective activities of daily living. While the 2000 Census has a number of variables related to disability status, this analysis uses the “go outside the home” disability, a self-reported characteristic that is likely to impact mobility outside the home. The U.S. Census Bureau classification of this disability includes those who because of a physical, mental or emotional condition lasting 6 months or more, have difficulty going outside the home alone to shop or to medical appointments. For San Luis Obispo County this represented 2 percent of the total population of adult’s ages 16 – 64 or 5,909 persons. For those ages 65 and over, this was another 2 percent of the total population, 5,316 seniors and 15 percent of the senior population. Persons with disabilities and persons of low income represent some overlap but also some difference. The Census Bureau documents that presence of a disability is associated with lower levels of income. In other studies, the Census Bureau reported that those with a low (less than half the median) relative income nationally, were 13.3 percent among those with no disability, 30.4 percent among those with any disability and 42.2 percent among those with a severe disability. 7 Hence individuals with these characteristics are best represented in Table 3-11. Senior Characteristics The senior population has a variety of characteristics of interest to this discussion. The individuals over age 65 in the 2000 census numbered 35,679 or 14 percent of the total San Luis Obispo County population. This is above the statewide average of 12 percent. Low-income seniors, defined by income in relation to household size, are 1 percent of the total county population and represent 6 percent of the senior population, age 65 and older. Seniors with disabilities were also identified in the 2000 census, a self-reported category and reflecting the individual’s perception. Five percent of seniors characterized themselves as disabled or 12,897 persons. A third group of potentially vulnerable seniors are those who are older than 75 years of age and those who are older than 85 years of age. Advanced age is associated with increased rates of disability. 8 About 13,393 seniors are between the ages of 75 and 84, representing 38 percent of the total county senior population and another 4,266 aged 85 and older, representing 12 percent of the county senior population San Luis Obipso region seniors 85+ are above the California state proportion of 35.5 percent seniors age 85+, comprising 11.6 percent of the state’s seniors. The physiology of aging identifies age 75 as the age point at which the natural effects of the aging processes are increasingly likely to impinge upon lifestyle, health status and general wellbeing. This is not to say that every 75 year-old is going to have difficulty getting around. But it 5 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Income, Earnings and Poverty Data from the 2005 American Community Survey. B.H Webster, A. Bishaw. Washington, DC, August 2006, p. 20. 6 Income, Earnings and Poverty Data from the 2005 American Community Survey, p. 22. 7 Current Population Reports, Series P23-194, Population Profile of the United States, 1997. p. 32. 8 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P23-194, Population Profile of the United States, 1997. Washington DC, 1998, p. 50-51. 46 OCTOBER 2007
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