Source and Methodology on the 2020 Household Net Worth Percentile Calculator. Our longer writeup is in the net worth average, median, and percentile post. In short: data comes from the Federal Reserve's 2019 SCF, released in September, 2020. Want to see how net worth brackets have evolved? Try one of the past calculators: 2016
The x-axis shows net worth percentile (top 1 percent, etc.) and the y-axis shows the net worth – in logarithmic form. Each line is an age group: This chart might take you a while.
Median net worth; Average net worth; Top 1% net worth; Of these, median net worth is the most important statistic. Although average net worth is higher than median (at $746,821 vs. $121,411, respectively), median is the 'middle point' of wealth. That is, half of households in the United States have more net worth, and half less – average is ...