← All instruments: the full set 1989
high 36.70 · low 28.30 · now 28.80 · 4 recessions shaded 2026
S9 · THE MIDDLE CLASS'S SLICE
Share of net worth held by the middle 40% (50th–90th)
28.80
STALE ROBUST DRS 95 quarterly as of 2026-04-01
This tile is stale: the value shown is the last one the source published, never a fabricated current number.
The full history
How it is read
- What it measures
- the middle class's slice
- Confidence
- ROBUST : a primary official series, mechanically reported.
- Reliability (DRS)
- DRS 95: Fed DFA. Completes the four-band decomposition with S6 (bottom 50%), S10 (next 9%), and S7 (top 1%). Trend-dominated; decade-relative, disclosed.
Where it comes from
FRED ↗ Every number on this site is reproducible from this primary source.
What it read at past stress points
| Lehman, Sep 2008 | 31.80 | ◆ WATCH |
|---|---|---|
| Q4-2018 selloff | 28.90 | · CALM |
| Curve inversion, Aug 2019 | 28.40 | ◆ WATCH |
| COVID crash, Mar 2020 | 29.80 | · CALM |
Questions it helps answer
- Who Gets What : Where does the wealth sit, and who keeps the output?