Racialized persons with disabilities, 2022

Release date: December 3, 2025
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Description: Racialized persons with disabilities, 2022

In 2022, 16.5% of Canadians aged 15 years and over with disabilities were part of a racialized groupNote 1

  • Proportion by selected racialized groups
    • South Asian – 4.2%
    • Chinese – 2.9%
    • Black – 2.7%
    • Filipino – 1.5%
    • Latin American – 1.3%

Racialized persons with disabilities were more likely to have sensory disabilities and less likely to have mental health-related disabilities than their non-racialized counterparts

Table 1
Table summary
The information is grouped by Disability type (appearing as row headers), Racialized persons with disabilities and Non-racialized persons with disabilities , calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Disability typeNote 2 Racialized persons with disabilities Non-racialized persons with disabilities
percent
Sensory (seeing or hearing) 47.0 39.3
Physical (mobility, dexterity or flexibility) 54.0 52.1
Pain-related 60.7 61.9
Mental health-related 32.4 39.2
Cognitive (learning, developmental or memory) 30.7 30.4

Racialized persons with disabilities were less likely to live alone than non-racialized persons with disabilities 

Table 2
Table summary
The information is grouped by Household living arrangement (appearing as row headers), Racialized persons with disabilities and Non-racialized persons with disabilities, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Household living arrangement Racialized persons with disabilities Non-racialized persons with disabilities
percent
Living alone 12.7 22.0
Couples without children 18.8 33.9
Couples with children 30.4 19.8
Lone parent 11.9 6.3
Living with parent or guardian 16.2 10.9
Living with extended family or unrelated individuals 10.1 7.0

Racialized persons with disabilities aged 65 years and over were more likely to receive help with daily activities than their non-racialized counterparts

  • Racialized persons with disabilities: 63.2%
  • Non-racialized persons with disabilities: 56.4%
  • The people who helped them varied between the two groups:
    • Racialized persons with disabilities:
      • Children – 71.1%
      • Spouse – 48.8%
    • Non-racialized persons with disabilities:
      • Children – 33.1%
      • Spouse – 69.9%

Feelings of loneliness

Similar proportions of racialized and non-racialized persons with disabilities reported feeling lonely

Racialized persons with disabilities: 56.2%
Non-racialized persons with disabilities: 57.3%

Racialized persons with more severe disabilities were more likely to report feeling lonely

More severe disabilities – 64.6%
Less severe disabilities – 51.5%          

Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Survey on Disability, 2022.

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