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The Mix of U.S. Household Assets
Share of the total assets of U.S. households and nonprofit organizations by type, quarterly, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Federal Reserve, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101: households and nonprofit organizations, end of quarter, market values. Shares are Palanor’s arithmetic and add up to 100. Other assets are consumer durables, nonprofits’ equipment and intellectual property, life insurance reserves, loans and miscellaneous assets.
How the makeup of household wealth has shifted since the 1940s: the weight of homes, of stocks and funds, of pension savings and of cash and bonds in everything U.S. households and nonprofits own.
What this chart reads·6 series
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- Share of U.S. Household Assets · Real Estate (Fed Z.1)as “Real estate”latest 2026-04-01
- Share of U.S. Household Assets · Pension Entitlements (Fed Z.1)as “Pension entitlements”latest 2026-04-01
- Share of U.S. Household Assets · Stocks and Mutual Funds Held Directly (Fed Z.1)as “Stocks and mutual funds held directly”latest 2026-04-01
- Share of U.S. Household Assets · Deposits and Debt Securities (Fed Z.1)as “Deposits and debt securities”latest 2026-04-01
- Share of U.S. Household Assets · Equity in Noncorporate Business (Fed Z.1)as “Equity in noncorporate business”latest 2026-04-01
- Share of U.S. Household Assets · Other Assets (Fed Z.1)as “Other assets”latest 2026-04-01
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Share of U.S. Household Assets · Real Estate (Fed Z.1). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Share of U.S. Household Assets · Pension Entitlements (Fed Z.1). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Share of U.S. Household Assets · Stocks and Mutual Funds Held Directly (Fed Z.1). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Share of U.S. Household Assets · Deposits and Debt Securities (Fed Z.1). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Share of U.S. Household Assets · Equity in Noncorporate Business (Fed Z.1). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Share of U.S. Household Assets · Other Assets (Fed Z.1). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.