Us Home Income Distribution
The median household income increased for the fifth consecutive year.
Us home income distribution. For a complete picture see the household income calculator. How it s changed since the 1970s. Census bureau shows the household income distribution for each state. In 2019 a little more than 53 percent of americans had an annual household income that was less than 75 000 u s.
Trends and issues congressional research service summary income inequality that is the extent to which individuals or households incomes differ has increased in the united states since the 1970s. Household income by place in the united states there are 29 322 places in the united states. Rising income inequality over this time period is. The 2019 real median incomes of family households and nonfamily households increased 7 3 percent and 6 2 percent from their respective 2018 estimates figure 1 and table a 1.
Below is an individual income percentile calculator for the united states for 2020. Rand senior mathematician carter price describes how income distribution and the sharing of economic growth has changed since the 1970s and has resulted in ninety percent of the population seeing little income growth. In 2018 the total personal income earned in the united states was 17 6 trillion. The least populous of the compared places has a population of 383 899.
Enter pre tax gross income earned in full year 2019 january to december to compare to the us individual income distribution. The above graphic using data from the u s. The income for each state is broken down into six brackets 25k 25k 50k etc and data is sorted by the respective percentages of each state in the 150k bracket. Median household income was 68 703 in 2019 an increase of 6 8 percent from the 2018 median of 64 324 figure 1 and table a 1.
In 2008 all households in the united states earned roughly 12 442 2 billion. This section compares the 50 most populous of those to each other and the united states. One half 49 98 of all income in the us was earned by households with an income over 100 000 the top twenty percent.