Those numbers are shockingly high.

Might be the area where I live, but those numbers do seem high

Throw in a few billionaires, and the average number climbs.

Like you, I am well above the median, but not at the "average" I'd be interested in what the average looks like if you dropped off the top and bottom 1%

Just let me know.

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is considered. Although, I think it’s a bit lower than displayed.

From 90 article. There is also a table by age.

“ Between 2019 and 2022, the median net worth of U.S. households surged 37% to $192,900, according to the report. The mean, or average, net worth increased 23% to $1,063,700.

“You may be wondering why the mean is so much higher than the median net worth. That’s because the wealthiest households tend to drive the average up.”

Education, skills or technological innovation, work ethic, spending and debt habits, location, location, location.

The book "Poverty and Place" a recent one by Princeton sociologists shows how being in a backwater means you remain in a backwater. Poverty statistically, en masse, has a powerful location element.

would know that this article is meaningless.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

vary widely depending on what state, what city, what precise area you are looking at. I'm guessing rural Mississippi or Alabama has a much lower median. San Francisco and all the other major cities, will be much higher.

I'd be considered wealthy.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distribution-for-the-us/
U.S. wealth distribution Q3 2023
"In the third quarter of 2023, 66.6 percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.6 percent of the total wealth."

So, the other 40% have 30.8% of the wealth. (Probably has the same skewed bias as the total population.)