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C24 · HOUSEHOLD CREDIT STRESS

Credit-card delinquency rate, all commercial banks

2.92
STALE ROBUST DRS 95 quarterly as of 2026-01-01

This tile is stale: the value shown is the last one the source published, never a fabricated current number.

The full history

1991 high 6.77 · low 1.53 · now 2.92 · 4 recessions shaded 2026

How it is read

What it measures
household credit stress
Confidence
ROBUST : a primary official series, mechanically reported.
Reliability (DRS)
DRS 95: Where household stress shows first now that mortgages are mostly fixed-rate.

Where it comes from

FRED ↗ Every number on this site is reproducible from this primary source.

What it read at past stress points

Lehman, Sep 2008 4.80 ▲ EXTREME
Q4-2018 selloff 2.54 · CALM
Curve inversion, Aug 2019 2.60 · CALM
COVID crash, Mar 2020 2.69 · CALM

Questions it helps answer

  • The Plumbing : Is the banking and credit system carrying its load?