About this data
- Household wealth includes property (net of mortgages), private pensions, financial wealth (savings and investments, net of debts) and physical wealth (household contents, vehicles and valuables). It excludes the value of State Pension entitlements. The Wealth and Assets Survey covers Great Britain and surveys households over two years.
- Each survey round covers two years, shown by the year it ends (2022 is April 2020 to March 2022). Rounds up to 2014-16 ran from July to June. The latest round was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and ONS has suspended its accredited status while it reviews the survey's quality.
- Falling interest rates in the 2010s raised the value of defined benefit pensions, and rising rates from 2021 lowered it, which affects pension and total wealth.
This chart appears in Inequality.