Recent ERS research estimated that an average of about 19 percent of U.S. farmers (395,000 people) and 9 percent of U.S. farmworkers (134,000 people) had a disability at some point between 2008 and 2016. The probability of disability among both farmers and farmworkers increased with age. The probability of disability was lower for farmers and farmworkers who had higher education levels, were female, or were married. The most common health difficulties were physical (about 10 percent of farmers and 4 percent of farmworkers) and hearing (8 percent of farmers and 3 percent of farmworkers).
