But you have a long, long way to go.
The average 0.01% household has … and beyond that
You made it. This is the top 0.1%: .
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Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)
Stacked in $100 bills:
Median household:
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WealthInequalityinAmerica Drawn to scale
Each bar above is 1% of American households, lined up from poorest to richest. One pixel = $5,000. Every green brick is a $100,000 bundle (ten bank straps) of $100 bills. The bar on the far right is the top 1%. It keeps rising to the average top-0.1% household. Find the top of it.
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Who owns America?
Share of all wealth held by each fifth of households.
Bottom 99%: average net worth by percentile, 2023 Survey of Consumer Finances, inflated to 2026 dollars. Top 1%: Federal Reserve Distributional Financial Accounts, Q1 2026. “Think” and “Ideal”: Norton & Ariely (2011).
