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America’s wealthiest households have seen their fortunes surge to new heights, with the richest 0.1% now controlling nearly $28 trillion in net worth, according to the latest data from the US Federal Reserve.
“US household and non-profit net worth rose by $12.8 trillion during the quarter to $195.9 trillion”
The Federal Reserve’s Distributional Financial Accounts show that the top 0.1%, comprising an estimated 136,779 households, held $27.87 trillion in net wealth at the end of the second quarter of 2026. That equates to an average of approximately $203.7 million per household.
Their combined wealth rose by approximately $2.73 trillion during the second quarter alone, an increase of 10.9% from $25.14 trillion three months earlier. Compared with the second quarter of 2025, their wealth increased by almost 19%.
The longer-term increase is even more pronounced. At the end of 2019, immediately before the pandemic, the top 0.1% controlled about $13.36 trillion. By June 2026, that figure had risen by almost 109%, meaning the group’s collective net worth has more than doubled in less than seven years.
The figures also highlight an increasingly significant divide even among America’s richest households. The next 0.9%, representing households between the 99th and 99.9th wealth percentiles, held $32.45 trillion across more than 1.2 million households.
That works out at roughly $26.7 million per household, compared with almost $204 million among the top 0.1%.
Investment markets remain a major driver of wealth at the very top. The richest 0.1% held approximately $16.15 trillion in corporate equities and mutual fund shares in the second quarter, compared with around $1.97 trillion in real estate.
Overall US household and non-profit net worth rose by $12.8 trillion during the quarter to $195.9 trillion, with the Federal Reserve attributing much of the increase to gains in corporate equities.
The Federal Reserve’s distributional data, updated in September, combines its Financial Accounts with household-level information from the Survey of Consumer Finances to estimate how wealth is distributed across different economic groups.
