Share of net worth held by the top 1% of households
31.60
STALEROBUSTDRS 95quarterlyas 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
1989
high 31.80 · low 22.50 · now 31.60 · 4 recessions shaded 2026
How it is read
What it measures
the upper leg of the K
Confidence
ROBUST : a primary official series, mechanically reported.
Reliability (DRS)
DRS 95: Fed Distributional Financial Accounts. Shown beside S6: the K is the pair, not either line alone. Trend-dominated: a steadily trending series always prints high-z eventually; the state reads how far along the trend, vs the recent decade. Disclosed.
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
28.10
· CALM
Q4-2018 selloff
30.00
◆ WATCH
Curve inversion, Aug 2019
30.40
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COVID crash, Mar 2020
29.20
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Questions it helps answer
Who Gets What: Where does the wealth sit, and who keeps the output?