This graph looks at the poverty rate of people with disability. People with disability, especially those with more severe incapacities (people who are limited in the core activities they can perform) face an above-average risk of poverty. It is likely that poverty is underestimated amongst people with disability, as the extra costs of a disability are not taken into account when assessing whether people are living below the poverty line, such as the costs of adjustments to home or workplace; care costs; additional transportation costs; and medical and pharmaceutical costs.

2017-18: The rate of poverty among adults with disability is 17.2% using the 50% median income poverty line and 28.4% using the 60% median income poverty line.

2015-16: The rate of poverty among adults with disability is 16.5% using the 50% median income poverty line and 29.4% using the 60% median income poverty line.