In 2023, the real median household income for householders aged 15 to 24 was at 54,930 U.S. dollars. The highest median household income was found amongst those aged between 45 and 54. Household median income for the United States since 1990 can be accessed here.

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In 2023, just over 50 percent of Americans had an annual household income that was less than 75,000 U.S. dollars. The median household income was 80,610 U.S. dollars in 2023. Income and wealth in the United States After the economic recession in 2009, income inequality in the U.S. is more prominent across many metropolitan areas. The Northeast region is regarded as one of the wealthiest in the country. Maryland, New Jersey, and Massachusetts were among the states with the highest median household income in 2020. In terms of income by race and ethnicity, the average income of Asian households was 94,903 U.S. dollars in 2020, while the median income for Black households was around half of that figure. What is the U.S. poverty threshold? The U.S. Census Bureau annually updates its list of poverty levels. Preliminary estimates show that the average poverty threshold for a family of four people was 26,500 U.S. dollars in 2021, which is around 100 U.S. dollars less than the previous year. There were an estimated 37.9 million people in poverty across the United States in 2021, which was around 11.6 percent of the population. Approximately 19.5 percent of those in poverty were Black, while 8.2 percent were white.

Income of individuals by age group, sex and income source, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, annual.

In 2023, about 26.9 percent of Asian private households in the U.S. had an annual income of 200,000 U.S. dollars and more. Comparatively, around 13.9 percent of Black households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars.

This dataset accompanies the tables ‘Household income and saving in the National Accounts: distributions by income quintile’ and ‘Household consumption in the National Accounts: distributions by income quintile’ and presents the number of households in each quintile broken down by household type.

   Households are grouped into income quintiles on the basis of their equivalised disposable income, ranked from lowest to highest, i.e., the first quintile represents the 20% households with the lowest equivalised disposable income and the fifth quintile the 20% households with the highest. Equivalisation means that results for each household have been recalculated on the basis of its consumption needs, in order to produce comparable results across households of different size and composition. <br><br>

   Households are grouped on the basis of their composition, taking into account the presence, number and age of the members of the household. Eight categories are shown: a) single person (adult) less than 65 years old, b) single adult aged 65 and older, c) single adult with children living at home, d) a couple (two adults) where both are less than 65 years old without children living at home, e) two adults where at least one is aged 65 or older without children living at home, f) two adults with fewer than 3 children living at home, g) two adults with at least 3 children living at home, and h) others. In this classification, an adult is defined as anyone who is 18 years old or older.<br><br>

   The default view of this table is for a single country (‘Reference area’ filter) and single year (‘Time period’ filter). In cases where countries appear to be greyed-out, data may be available for earlier years, and these can be selected by selecting a different start and end year in the ‘Time period’ filter. <br><br>

   For more information on the (compilation of) these results, please see the <a href="https://www.oecd.org/sdd/na/household-distributional-results-in-line-with-national-accounts-experimental-statistics.htm"> webpage on household distributional results </a>.

U.S. citizens with a professional degree had the highest median household income in 2023, at 172,100 U.S. dollars. In comparison, those with less than a 9th grade education made significantly less money, at 35,690 U.S. dollars. Household income The median household income in the United States has fluctuated since 1990, but rose to around 70,000 U.S. dollars in 2021. Maryland had the highest median household income in the United States in 2021. Maryland’s high levels of wealth is due to several reasons, and includes the state's proximity to the nation's capital. Household income and ethnicity The median income of white non-Hispanic households in the United States had been on the rise since 1990, but declining since 2019. While income has also been on the rise, the median income of Hispanic households was much lower than those of white, non-Hispanic private households. However, the median income of Black households is even lower than Hispanic households. Income inequality is a problem without an easy solution in the United States, especially since ethnicity is a contributing factor. Systemic racism contributes to the non-White population suffering from income inequality, which causes the opportunity for growth to stagnate.

This statistic shows the median household income in the United States from 1990 to 2023 in 2023 U.S. dollars. The median household income was 80,610 U.S. dollars in 2023, an increase from the previous year. Household incomeThe median household income depicts the income of households, including the income of the householder and all other individuals aged 15 years or over living in the household. Income includes wages and salaries, unemployment insurance, disability payments, child support payments received, regular rental receipts, as well as any personal business, investment, or other kinds of income received routinely. The median household income in the United States varies from state to state. In 2020, the median household income was 86,725 U.S. dollars in Massachusetts, while the median household income in Mississippi was approximately 44,966 U.S. dollars at that time. Household income is also used to determine the poverty line in the United States. In 2021, about 11.6 percent of the U.S. population was living in poverty. The child poverty rate, which represents people under the age of 18 living in poverty, has been growing steadily over the first decade since the turn of the century, from 16.2 percent of the children living below the poverty line in year 2000 to 22 percent in 2010. In 2021, it had lowered to 15.3 percent. The state with the widest gap between the rich and the poor was New York, with a Gini coefficient score of 0.51 in 2019. The Gini coefficient is calculated by looking at average income rates. A score of zero would reflect perfect income equality and a score of one indicates a society where one person would have all the money and all other people have nothing.

In 2022, about 14.88 million households in the United States had an income of 200,000 U.S. dollars or more a year. Another 20.77 million households however, had an income of less than 25,000 U.S. dollars in the same year, The total number of households in the U.S. since 1960 can be found here.

Pensioners' Incomes (PI) contains estimates of the levels, sources and distribution of pensioners' incomes. It also examines the position of single pensioners and pensioner couples, including any dependent children, within the income distribution of the population as a whole. This differs from Households Below Average Income (HBAI) (see SNs 5828 and 7196), where analysis is on a household basis, and includes the income of adults not in the pensioner unit but living in the same household. The PI undertakes a few extra steps beyond the FRS and HBAI data to derive pension income variables.

The PI series is a key source of information used to inform Government thinking on relevant policies and related programmes and projects. Researchers and analysts outside the government use statistics and data to examine topics such as ageing, the distributional impacts of fiscal policies, and pensioner groups' income profiles. The PI estimates are usually based on a sample of around 7,000 adults over State Pension age, who reside in private households in the United Kingdom, taken from the Family Resources Survey (FRS).

The gov.uk Pensioners' Incomes Statistics webpage contains annual reports, accompanying tables, research, and technical papers.

PI data are also available from 1994/95 onwards via the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Stat-Xplore online tool.

Secure Access PI data

The Secure Access version of the PI series (SN 9257) is available from 2007/08 onwards, whereas the standard End User Licence (EUL) data (SN 8503) are available from 2008/09. Unlike the EUL versions, the ages of the head of household and spouse have not been top-coded at 80 years in the Secure Access version. Prospective users of the Secure Access version must fulfil additional requirements beyond those associated with the EUL datasets. The Secure Access version of FRS is held under SN 9256, and the Secure Access version of HBAI is available under SN 7196.

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In 2023, the highest average amount of disposable income for any age group occurred in the 35 to 44-year-old group, while the age group with the lowest average disposable income were those aged 85 and over.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Individual Income Series provides estimates of the individual income of women and men in Great Britain and changes in income over time. These provide a means of comparing the income accruing to women with that accruing to men, either directly or in their own right. Individual income estimates cover all adult women and men, whether living as couples or as single persons. The data are derived directly from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) (available at the UK Data Archive under GN 33283) and the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) (available at the Archive under SN 5828). The Individual Income Series is distinct in that they seek to compare the incomes that accrue to women with those that accrue to men. This information complements data in other official statistics publications, which address different issues: HM Revenue and Customs' statistics cover only taxable income; certain other statistics cover only earned income; and other series such as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) HBAI analyse household income. The Individual Income Series does not provide a means of comparing the living standards of women and men, nor of different groups of women: the analyses take no account of the extent to which members of a household share their incomes or resources with other household members. The National Equality Panel, set up by the Minister for Women and Equality in October 2008, was asked to look at the best available evidence on the relationship between inequality in economic outcomes and differences related to people's characteristics, such as gender, ethnicity and disability. One of the economic outcomes analysed by the Panel was individual income, received by each adult in their own right from all sources in total, before and after deducting direct taxes. The final report of the National Equality Panel, specifically chapter six, contains the analyses of the Individual Income Series, and are available as part of the study documentation (see below). The data files used for this analysis form the data available as part of this study. Some additional tables are available on the Government Equalities Office Individual Incomes Statistical Annex web page. Main Topics: The data cover:total incomenet incomedisposable incomedemographics (gender, ethnicity, age, disability status, occupational social class, housing tenure) Stratified clustered probability sample (Great Britain) and simple random sample (Northern Ireland) Face-to-face interview

Objective: This study re-evaluates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 16-29-year-olds’ mental health in the United Kingdom, using longitudinal data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and its predecessor, spanning 2001 to 2023. Methods: Unlike existing research, the study accounts for potential reporting bias introduced with the UKHLS Covid-19 study. We aim to identify the causal effect of the lockdown (April 2020 to March 2021) and post-lockdown (April 2021 to March 2022) period by estimating counterfactual mental health trajectories based on long-term trends. Findings: Mental ill-health among young adults had been rising for nearly two decades before the pandemic. During the lockdown phase, the average General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) psychological distress score increased by 8% of its standard deviation, and clinically relevant cases of psychological distress rose by 4.3 percentage points. However, the impact was time-limited, with mental health levels returning to trend predictions by April 2021, suggesting that the initial pandemic impact on distress was temporary and did not permanently 'scar’ average mental health. The observed recovery aligns with receding feelings of loneliness and higher life satisfaction. Variations in the pandemic’s effects were observed by gender, household income, and ethnicity, with women and young adults in the top third of the household income distribution experiencing a more substantial initial increase in psychological distress during lockdown. Notably, the findings do not indicate stronger mental health effects during the lockdown period in the under-30-year-olds than in the rest of the adult population under 60. Conclusions: The study underscores the importance of accounting for pre-existing trends when evaluating the mental health consequences of external shocks and highlights the resilience of young adults compared to frequently reported narratives

Equivalent administrative disposable income is a third pillar of the income statistics that Statbel publishes, alongside tax revenues and poverty indicators based on https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/menages/poverty-and-living-conditions/plus, and allows answering other types of questions than SILC and tax statistics.

SILC uses disposable income at the household level as a concept of income, by aggregating the incomes of all members of the household. In the next step, this disposable income is converted into equivalised disposable income to take into account the composition of the household. Based on the SILC, at-risk-of-poverty figures are published up to the provincial level. However, the sample size does not allow for analyses at a more detailed geographical level. However, statistics based on tax revenues are available up to the level of the statistical sector, but are limited to taxable income in the context of personal income tax returns. Non-taxable income is not taken into account and there is also no correction according to the composition of the household.

The variable "equivalent administrative disposable income" responds to a growing demand for local income and poverty figures. It uses an income concept based on administrative sources that tries to correspond as much as possible to that of SILC. For the population as a whole, both taxable and non-taxable income are taken into account. They are added together for all members of the household in order to obtain an administrative disposable income for the household. Then, they are adjusted to the size of the household so as to take into account the economies of scale resulting from living together. Concretely, the administrative disposable income of the household is divided by the number of consumption units of the household to obtain the equivalent administrative disposable income. The number of consumption units is defined by counting 1 for the first adult, 0.5 for other adults and 0.3 for children under 14 years of age. This equivalent administrative disposable income is an indicator of people's standard of living. It is used to calculate medians, quartiles and the administrative poverty rate. The latter is the proportion of the population whose income is less than 60% of the median equivalised administrative disposable income of Belgium. It should be noted that these indicators are always calculated for individuals (not households), even if incomes are measured at the household level. Some households whose income is unknown are excluded from the calculations.

Indicators are not disseminated for an entity and a category when there are at least 15% of people whose equivalent administrative disposable income is missing or when there are less than 100 people with a valid income.

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Created with a 500 meter side hexagon grid, we undertook a regression analysis creating a correlation matrix utilising a number of demographic indicators from the Local Insight OCSI platform. This dataset is showing the distribution of the metrics that were found to have the strongest relationships, with the base comparison metric of Indices of Deprivation 2019 income deprivation affecting older people. This dataset contains the following metrics: IoD 2019 Income Deprivation Affecting Older People (IDAOPI) Score (rate) - The Indices of Deprivation (IoD) 2019 Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index captures deprivation affecting older people defined as those adults aged 60 or over receiving Income Support or income-based Jobseekers Allowance or income-based Employment and Support Allowance or Pension Credit (Guarantee) or Universal Credit (in the 'Searching for work', 'No work requirements', 'Planning for work', 'Working with requirements' and 'Preparing for work' conditionality groups) or families not in receipt of these benefits but in receipt of Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit with an equivalised income (excluding housing benefit) below 60 per cent of the national median before housing costs. Asylum seekers aged 60 and over are not included in the Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index. Rate calculated as = (ID 2019 Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index (IDAOPI) numerator)/(ID 2019 Older population aged 60 and over: mid 2015 (excluding prisoners))*100.Pension Credit claimants who are single - Shows the proportion of people receiving Pension Credit who are single (as a % of all of pensionable age). Pension Credit provides financial help for people aged 60 or over whose income is below a certain level set by the law. Rate calculated as = (Pension Credit claimants, single)/(Population aged 65+)*100.Pension Credit claimants, Guarantee Element - Shows the proportion of people of retirement age receiving Pension Credit Guarantee Element. Pension Credit provides financial help for people aged 60 or over whose income is below a certain level set by the law. The Guarantee Element is payable to tops up incomes that are below a minimum threshold. Rate calculated as = (Pension Credit claimants, Guarantee Element)/(Population aged 65+)*100.Working-age DWP benefit claimants aged 50 and over - Shows the proportion of people aged 50-64 receiving DWP benefits. DWP Benefits are benefits payable to all people who need additional financial support due to low income, worklessness, poor health, caring responsibilities, bereavement or disability. The following benefits are included: Bereavement Benefit, Carers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance, Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance, Pension Credit and Widows Benefit. Figure are derived from 100% sample of administrative records from the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS), with all clients receiving more than one benefit counted only by their primary reason for interacting with the benefits system (to avoid double counting). Universal Credit (UC) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) started to replace the benefits included in this measure from April 2013 when new Jobseeker's Allowance and Disability Living Allowance claimants started to move onto the new benefits in selected geographical areas. This rollout intensified from March 2016 onwards to capture all of the other Working age DWP Benefits. As UC and PIP are not included in this measure it no longer represent a complete count of working age people receiving DWP Benefits. As a result the measure was discontinued in November 2016. Rate calculated as = (Working-age DWP benefit claimants aged 50 and over) /(Population aged 50+)*100.People with numeracy skills at entry level 1 or below (2011) (%) - Shows the proportion of people with numeracy skills at entry level 1 or below. The Skills for Life Survey 2011 was commissioned by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. The survey aimed to produce a national profile of adult literacy, numeracy and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills, and to assess the impact different skills had on people's lives. Each figure is a mean estimate of the number of adults with each skill level (or who do / do not speak English as a first language). The survey was conducted at regional level as a part interview part questionnaire. The interview comprised a background questionnaire followed by a pre-assigned random combination of two of the three skills assessments: literacy, numeracy and ICT. The background questionnaire was designed to collect a broad set of relevant demographic and behavioural data. This demographic data was used to model the information down to neighbourhood level using the neighbourhood characteristics of each MSOA to create a likely average skill level of the population within each MSOA. survey. Respondents who completed the questions allocated to the literacy and numeracy assessments were assigned to one of the five lowest levels of the National Qualifications Framework: Entry Level 1 or below; Entry Level 2; Entry Level 3; Level 1; or Level 2 or above. Each figure is a mean estimate of the number of adults with each skill level (or who do / do not speak English as a first language).IoD 2015 Housing affordability indicator -Social Grade (N-SEC): 8. Never worked and long-term unemployed - Shows the proportion of people in employment (aged 16-74) in the Approximated Social grade (N-SEC) category: 8. Never worked and long-term unemployed. An individual's approximated social grade is determined by their response to the occupation questions in the 2011 Census. Rate calculated as = (Never worked and long-term unemployed (census KS611))/(All usual residents aged 16 to 74 (census KS611))*100.Female healthy life expectancy at birth - Female healthy life expectancy at birth. Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is the average number of years that an individual might expect to live in "good" health in their lifetime. The 'good' health state used for estimation of HLE was based on self-reports of general health at the 2011 Census; specifically those reporting their general health as 'very good' or 'good' were defined as in 'Good' health in this context. The HLE estimates are a snapshot of the health status of the population, based on self-reported health status and mortality rates for each area in that period. They are not a guide to how long someone will actually expect to live in "good" health, both because mortality rates and levels of health status are likely to change in the future, and because many of those born in an area will live elsewhere for at least part of their lives.Sport England Market Segmentation: Pub League Team Mates - Shows the proportion of people living in the area that are classified as Pub League Team Mates in the Sports Market Segmentation tool developed by Sport England. The Pub League Team Mates classification group are predominantly aged 36-45 are a mix of married/single child and childless and likely to be engaged in a vocational job. For more details about the characteristics of this group see http://segments.sportengland.org/pdf/penPortrait-9.pdf. Sports Market Segmentation is a web-based tool developed by Sport England to help all those delivering sport to better understand their local markets and target them more effectively.IoD 2010 Income Domain, score - The Indices of Deprivation (IoD) 2010 Income Deprivation Domain measures the proportion of the population in an area experiencing deprivation relating to low income. The definition of low income used includes both those people that are out-of-work, and those that are in work but who have low earnings (and who satisfy the respective means tests). The domain forms part of the overall Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2010. The IMD 2010 is the most comprehensive measure of multiple deprivation available. Drawn primarily from 2008 data and presented at small area level, the IMD 2010 is a unique and invaluable tool for measuring deprivation nationally and across local areas. The concept of multiple deprivation upon which the IMD 2010 is based is that separate types of deprivation exist, which are separately recognised and measurable.People over the age of 65 with bad or very bad health - Shows the proportion of people over the age of 65 that reported to have bad or very bad health. Figures are self-reported and taken from the 2011 Census. Rate calculated as = (Bad or very bad health (census LC3206)/(Population aged 65+)*100

This is the proportion of children aged under 16 (0-15) living in families in absolute low income during the year. The figures are based on the count of children aged under 16 (0-15) living in the area derived from ONS mid-year population estimates. The count of children refers to the age of the child at 30 June of each year.

Low income is a family whose equivalised income is below 60 per cent of median household incomes. Gross income measure is Before Housing Costs (BHC) and includes contributions from earnings, state support, and pensions. Equivalisation adjusts incomes for household size and composition, taking an adult couple with no children as the reference point. For example, the process of equivalisation would adjust the income of a single person upwards, so their income can be compared directly to the standard of living for a couple.

Absolute low income is income Before Housing Costs (BHC) in the reference year in comparison with incomes in 2010/11 adjusted for inflation. A family must have claimed one or more of Universal Credit, Tax Credits, or Housing Benefit at any point in the year to be classed as low income in these statistics. Children are dependent individuals aged under 16; or aged 16 to 19 in full-time non-advanced education. The count of children refers to the age of the child at 31 March of each year.

Data are calibrated to the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) survey regional estimates of children in low income but provide more granular local area information not available from the HBAI. For further information and methodology on the construction of these statistics, visit this link. Totals may not sum due to rounding.

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Average earnings, by age group and highest level of education, from the 2016 Census of Population.

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Most inequality research on the relationship between inequality and mental health has focused on cross-country variation. Findings from within-country data are mixed. We examined whether changes in municipal Gini index or in the share of people living in relative poverty were linked to changes in the use of antidepressants in several Finnish municipalities between 1995 and 2010. We found that more young adult females used antidepressants in municipalities where relative poverty had increased. Changes in municipal-level Gini index were not positively associated with changes in the use of antidepressants in the municipalities between 1995 and 2010. However, fewer elderly females used antidepressants in municipalities where the Gini index increased. In addition, more young adults used antidepressants in municipalities where the number of those not being educated or trained had also increased. An increase in the number of persons over 65 years of age living alone was positively associated with an increase in the use of antidepressants among elderly females.

The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is conducted annually to obtain work experience and income information from Canadian households. The Survey provides up-to-date information on the distribution and sources of income, before and after taxes, for families and individuals. With this file, users may identify specific family types, such as two-parent and lone-parent families. Information is also provided on earnings, transfers, and total income for the head and the spouse of the census family unit, as well as personal and labour-related characteristics. This reference year for this file is 1985. Commencing with the 1998 microdata files, annual cross-sectional income data will be sourced from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID).