I haven't done a survey, but in my case, VERY NOPE.

no, why would we? Also curious, it just makes 0 sense for me.

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Lol, not at all. If anything, I'm more in my head. But of course, can't speak for everyone.

Not naturally some are because of non blindness stuff psych/typology/genetics or whatever you will. Multiple intelligence. I am very mindful but not naturally for all no.

I am naturally very mindful just not for all though.

Only when I'm in an unfamiliar environment. Otherwise I'll crash into a wall, chair etc and just autopilot my way out of it.

My experience isn’t universal but since I am indeed, the protagonist of the universe, here goes : I’m probably the least mindful person on the planet. Like when walking around, i’m just like any sighted person, just cruising fully disconnected from the world from my cane. I only get out of that state when there’s immediate danger, like sighted people do I guess.

In my limited experience, no. It's one of my goals currently, but I often find myself trapped in my own mind and my own spiralling thoughts. I do find however that when I want to focus and eliminate distractions when I want to concentrate on reading and studying and praying that I can get rid of distractions easier, but that does not mean that I don't still have all the rushing anxieties and depressive episodes.

I think it's the opposite. Mindfulness is turning away from abstraction or the thoughts in your head or the vision of the world you see inside toward the outer world. As a blind person, I tend to create an overlay of the world as an abstraction and operate from that. Information is treated as data to update or falsify the model, i.e. the coffee table is not encountered as a holistic object to be experienced but as an obstacle to be avoided or a surface to be used in working toward achieving a goal. The blind people I know who are effective tend to be goal-oriented and to pare away information that will not help chive the goal and to seek out information that will be critical. The relative paucity of information means that knowing what is needed and what is not is a critical skill.

tl;dr Successful blind people treat the world as an abstraction, not as qualia to be acceped or experienced. Obviously it's fine to dip into that, but if that's your main form of interaction with the world as a blind person (sitting around and listening to birdsong or whatever), that probably isn't great for your goals. There may be a sense in which mindfulness is a luxury for the sighted, though I may be going too far with that one.

Blind people are more in their heads because there are far less stimuli than there are for a sighted person. Try focusing on the outside world when you're riding in a vehicle.

no, I'm way more in my head than the average sighted person, I think. part of this may be because when I initially lost my sight I really couldn't do much until I adapted and one of the things I didn't have to make any accommodations for was just being by myself and thinking/making up stories/whatever.

Only when I'm navigating outdoors, and not if I'm in a familiar place like my college campus. Other than that, I can get pretty in my head.