According to data from the Federal Reserve, the top 1% of U.S. households controlled $51.85 trillion dollars in assets as of Q2 2025. That amounts to 31% of all U.S. household wealth.
Such large sums of money are hard to understand unless they are broken down. One way to do that is to perform a thought experiment: What would it mean for the average American if the wealth of the country’s richest 1% were shared equally among all households?
