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Average and median family net worth by age of the reference person, Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances 2022, in 2022 dollars. The gap column is the average minus the median: the larger it is, the more a small group of very wealthy households pulls the average above what a typical household holds.
Age group Average net worth Median net worth Average minus median
Under 35 $183,500 $39,000 $144,500
35 to 44 $549,600 $135,600 $414,000
45 to 54 $975,800 $247,200 $728,600
55 to 64 $1,566,900 $364,500 $1,202,400
65 to 74 $1,794,600 $409,900 $1,384,700
75 and older $1,624,100 $335,600 $1,288,500
All families $1,063,700 $192,900 $870,800

Source: Federal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Finances 2022 (Bulletin, October 2023, Table 2), in 2022 dollars. Household (family) figures by age of the reference person, not individual net worth, from about 4,600 interviewed families representing 131.3 million US households. Download this table as CSV (CC BY 4.0 compilation, figures attributed to the Federal Reserve).

Source: Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances 2022, in 2022 dollars. Household figures, not individual targets. Educational benchmarks, not financial advice.

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