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Disability Employment Inclusion

ACS disability-status employment, poverty, and earnings-parity score, with small denominators shrunk toward all-place means.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Disability Employment Inclusion rewards places where disabled residents have stronger employment, lower poverty, and better earnings parity relative to non-disabled residents.

  1. 1

    Employment, poverty, poverty-gap, employment-gap, and earnings-parity signals are shrunk toward all-place means when denominators are small.

  2. 2

    County-level ACS disability economic values are used as fallback when the place-level values are suppressed or unavailable.

  3. 3

    The formula is 35% disability employment rate, 25% inverse employment gap, 20% inverse disability poverty rate, 10% inverse poverty gap, and 10% earnings parity.

  4. 4

    Signals are weighted by disability population when percentile-ranked.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Disability Employment Inclusion.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Disability Employment Inclusion rewards places where disabled residents have stronger employment, lower poverty, and better earnings parity relative to non-disabled residents.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Disability employment rate

    ACS employed share for residents age 16+ with a disability.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Employment gap

    Difference between non-disabled and disabled employment rates.

    Source: Derived from ACS inputs
  • Disability poverty rate and poverty gap

    ACS poverty share for disabled residents and the gap versus non-disabled residents.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Earnings parity

    Disabled median earnings divided by non-disabled median earnings.

    Source: Derived from ACS inputs

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

  • These are practical support proxies, not direct audits of ADA compliance, sidewalk condition, housing accessibility, service waitlists, paratransit quality, or lived experience.
  • ACS disability-status estimates are multi-year estimates and can be noisy for small places; county fallback is used when place-level disability economic values are suppressed.
  • Healthcare, transportation, affordability, and safety components inherit the limitations of their underlying published scores.
  • Disability prevalence is shown as context, but it is not treated as good or bad in the score formula.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Disability Employment Inclusion.

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