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U.S. Households: Stocks vs Real Estate
Market value of corporate stock held directly and indirectly, and of real estate, U.S. households and nonprofits, $ billions
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Federal Reserve, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101.e: households and nonprofit organizations, end of quarter, market values. Indirect holdings are stocks owned through mutual funds, ETFs, pension and retirement plans and life insurance. Mortgage debt is not subtracted.
The two pillars of American household wealth. For most of the postwar era homes and land were worth more than all the stock households owned. Stocks drew level at the top of the dot-com boom, fell far behind after it and again in 2008, and have pulled ahead in recent years.
What this chart reads
- U.S. Household and Nonprofit Assets · Corporate Equities Held Directly and Indirectly (Fed Z.1)as “Stocks, held directly and indirectly”latest 2026-04-01
- U.S. Household and Nonprofit Assets · Real Estate (Fed Z.1)as “Real estate”latest 2026-04-01
Sources
U.S. Household and Nonprofit Assets · Corporate Equities Held Directly and Indirectly (Fed Z.1). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), table B.101.e (balance sheet of households and nonprofit organizations, with equity detail), line "Directly and indirectly held corporate equities", via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), series BOGZ1LM153064475Q: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1LM153064475Q. Board data are public domain. Synced daily by fred-sync.
U.S. Household and Nonprofit 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, series HNOREMV via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Public domain.
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