Share of households with IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans in the U.S. 2021

Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 13, 2023
As of 2021, individual retirement accounts (IRAs) were relatively common among households in the United States. In fact, almost one-third of the households in the United States had both an individual retirement account and an employer-sponsored retirement plan in 2021. Another 26 percent of the households in the country had only an employer-sponsored retirement plan.

Share of households with individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or employer-sponsored retirement plans in the United States in 2021

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Release date

June 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

IRAs includes traditional, Roth, and employer-sponsored IRAs (SEP IRAs, SAR-SEP IRAs, and SIMPLE IRAs).
Employer-sponsored retirement plans include DC and DB retirement plans

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