What share of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 own stock?
Answer44%
Adults aged 50 to 64 had the highest ownership of any age group, at 72%.
Source: Gallup (2025) news.gallup.com
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The basics
What share of Americans in upper-income households ($100K+) own stock?
Answer87%
College graduates were close behind, at 84%.
Source: Gallup (2025) news.gallup.com
Going deeper
What share of Americans with household incomes under $50,000 own stock?
Answer28%
Stock ownership rises steeply with household income.
Source: Gallup (2025) news.gallup.com
What share of families in the bottom half of the income distribution held stock in 2022?
Answer34%
By comparison, 95% of families in the top income decile held stock.
Source: Federal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Finances (2019–2022) (2022) federalreserve.gov
Expert level
Among families with retirement accounts, what was the median balance in 2022?
Answer$86,900
The mean was far higher, $334,000, because a few very large accounts pull up the average.
Source: Federal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Finances (2019–2022) (2022) federalreserve.gov
Among families who owned stocks directly, what was the median value of those holdings in 2022?
Answer$15,000
It fell by about half from $29,000 in 2019, as many new investors started with small portfolios.
Source: Federal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Finances (2019–2022) (2022) federalreserve.gov
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