Personal savings in United States - statistics & facts

Monthly personal savings as a share of disposable income in the U.S. 2015-2023

Personal savings as a percentage of disposable income in the United States from December 2015 to March 2023

Mean and median amount of personal savings in the U.S. 2022, by type

Mean and median amount of personal savings in the United States in 2022, by type (in U.S. dollars)

Personal savings in the U.S. 1960-2022

Value of personal savings in the United States from 1960 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars)

Savings and other checkable deposits in the U.S. 2020-2023

Value of savings deposits and other checkable deposits in the United States from May 2020 to March 2023 (in trillion U.S. dollars)

Amount of money saved in savings accounts in the U.S. 2020-2022

Amount of money saved in savings accounts in the United States in 2020 and 2022

Savings and investments held by employees in the U.S. 2021

Savings and investments held by employees in the United States in 2021

Gross savings as share of GDP in the U.S. 1970-2020

Gross savings as share of gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States from 1970 to 2020

Household savings in the U.S. 2000-2021

Value of household savings in the United States from 2000 to 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars)

Time and savings deposits of households and nonprofit organizations U.S. 2000-2022

Value of assets held by households and nonprofit organizations in time and savings deposits in the United States from 2000 to 2022 (in trillion U.S. dollars)

Share of families that saved in the U.S. 2001-2019, by ethnicity

Percentage of households that saved in the United States in selected years from 2001 to 2019, by ethnicity

Share of families that saved in the U.S. 2004-2019, by work status

Share of households that saved money in the United States from 2004 to 2019, by work status of head

Share of families with savings bonds in the U.S. 2007-2019, by age of family head

Share of households holding savings bonds in the United States from 2007 to 2019, by age of family head

Financial instruments owned by children in the U.S. 2022

Financial instruments and accounts owned by children in the United States 2022

Households saving for college in the U.S. 2020-2022, by age of household head

Share of households saving for college in the United States from 2020 to 2022, by age of head of household

Total Education tax savings for college students U.S. 2001-2022

Total Education tax savings for college students and their parents across the United States from 2001/2002 to 2021/2022 (in billion 2021 U.S. dollars)

Assets of section 529 savings plan in the U.S. 2009-2022

Assets of section 529 savings plan in the United States from 2009 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars)

529 college savings average account balance in the U.S. 2016-2021

Average balance of 529 college savings accounts in the United States from 2016 to 2021 (in U.S. dollars)

Adults with any retirement savings in the U.S. 2021, by age group

Share of adults with any retirement savings in the United States in 2021, by age group

Opinion of Americans on state of their retirement savings 2021, by ethnicity

Opinion on state of retirement savings in the United States in 2021, by ethnicity

Drivers for starting to save for retirement in the U.S. 2020-2021

Reasons for starting to save money for retirement in the United States from 2020 to 2021

Household retirement savings in the U.S. 2020-2021, by amount

Household retirement savings in the United States from 2020 to 2021, by amount

Value of assets invested in IRAs in the U.S. 2021, by type

Value of assets invested in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in the United States in 2021, by type (in trillion U.S. dollars)

Probability of outliving their savings in the U.S. 2020-2022

Probability of outliving savings in the United States from 2020 to 2022

Reasons why families saved in the U.S. 2010-2019

Drivers for saving among families in the United States from 2010 to 2019

Goals in New Year's financial resolution in the U.S. 2022

Goals in New Year's financial resolution in the United States as of November 2022

Factors that are holding back Americans from saving for a down payment 2021

Factors that are holding back non-homeowners from saving for a down payment on a home purchase in the United States in 2021

Factors that prevent the Americans from saving for a down payment 2021, by age group

Factors that are holding back non-homeowners from saving for a down payment in the United States in 2021, by age group

Emergency bill: savings, credit card, borrow vs personal loan U.S. 2022

Share of Americans who would use selected methods to cover an emergency 1,000 U.S. dollar bill in January 2022

Bank account and service complaints reported CFPB in the U.S. 2022

Distribution of checking or savings complaints reported to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the United States in 2022

Adults who spent money from their savings due to inflation in the U.S. 2022, by age

Share of adults who have spent money from their savings because of inflation in the United States as of May 2022, by age

Main reasons why people could not save more in the U.S. 2022

Main reasons why people could not save more in the United States as of September 2022

Share of people who have delayed financial milestones in the U.S. 2022

Share of people who have delayed the following financial milestones due to the current economic situation in the United States as of October 2022

Share of people who avoided expenditures in the U.S. 2022

Share of people who avoided the following expenditures in the previous year due to the current economic situation in the United States as of October 2022

Actions people have found most effective to save money worldwide 2022

Actions that people have found most effective to cut costs as of September 2022, by type of action