{"chart":{"slug":"median-net-worth-by-age","title":"What is the median household net worth by age?","takeaway":"In the Federal Reserve's 2025 survey, the typical (median) household headed by someone under 35 had a net worth of $32,820, and one headed by someone 35 to 44 had $156,000. The median was $254,670 for ages 45 to 54, $411,340 for 55 to 64, $431,900 for 65 to 74 and $504,600 for 75 and over, about 15 times the under-35s'. The median is the household in the middle: half have more and half less. Averages are much higher, because a few households are very rich. Net worth is what a household owns (homes, retirement accounts, stocks, businesses, cars, bank accounts) minus what it owes (mortgages, student and car loans, credit cards). The survey is taken every three years, and figures are in dollars of the survey year. People of different ages also lived through different times, so this compares age groups, not one household's path through life.","topic":"Wealth","chart_type":"bar","ranking":false,"x_label":"Age of household head","y_label":"Median household net worth, dollars","unit":"dollars","points_count":6,"source":{"name":"Federal Reserve Board, Survey of Consumer Finances","url":"https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (Federal Reserve Board; cite the Board as the source)","url":"https://www.federalreserve.gov/disclaimer.htm"},"data_as_of":"2025-12-31","updated_at":"2026-10-23T12:09:19.134Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/median-net-worth-by-age","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/median-net-worth-by-age","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/median-net-worth-by-age/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/median-net-worth-by-age/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/median-net-worth-by-age/embed","credit":"Federal Reserve Board, Survey of Consumer Finances, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/median-net-worth-by-age)","credit_html":"Federal Reserve Board, Survey of Consumer Finances, via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/median-net-worth-by-age\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":null,"zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"Under 35","value":32820},{"label":"35 to 44","value":156000},{"label":"45 to 54","value":254670},{"label":"55 to 64","value":411340},{"label":"65 to 74","value":431900},{"label":"75 and over","value":504600}],"annotations":[]},"docs":"https://chart.ly/developers","terms":"Free to use with credit: wherever you show or quote a chart's data, name Chartly with a link to that chart's url (each chart's credit line does both) and credit its source as its license asks.","credit":"Federal Reserve Board, Survey of Consumer Finances, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/median-net-worth-by-age)"}