Bottom 10% thresholdHousehold · 2019–20
AUD 36,900Registered source cutoff
AUS · DIRECT DATA
Australia wealth benchmarks
Household · 2019–20. Verified cutoffs: Bottom 10% threshold to Top 10% threshold.
AT A GLANCE
Key net-worth figures
Median net worthAUD 579,200
Top 10% cutoffAUD 2,257,700
Bottom 10% cutoffAUD 36,900
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Period2019–20
CurrencyAUD
Published cutoffsBottom 10% threshold to Top 10% threshold
REFERENCE POINTS
Wealth levels at a glance
Source-supported amounts only; unavailable levels are omitted.
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How much does wealth differ in Australia?
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Household net worth · 2019–20
3.9×In Australia, the top 10% starts at about 3.9× the wealth of the middle household.
Difference in amount: AUD 1,678,500
Household net worth · 2019–20 · AUD.
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Macro-derived household-sector average (informational) · 2024
Australia household survey population
Definition-specific context; this is not a general national wealth distribution.
Wealth measure: National-accounts household-sector total net worth divided by projected household count.
Household · AUD · ABS Measuring What Matters: Household income and wealth
Source, reuse conditions and limitations
- Published averages and subgroup medians do not establish a personal wealth percentile.
- Published national-accounts ratio; not a directly observed micro-survey average.
- No median, personal distribution or state subgroup is supplied by this series.
- Displayed source average is rounded to nearest AUD1000; chart raw1583766.125 does not justify more consumer-facing precision.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2024. WORTH99 reformats the published statistics; the publisher does not endorse WORTH99.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Reference & method
Wealth basis
ABS household net worth = total household assets less liabilities
Sources
AU_SIH_2019_20
Confidence
Good confidence
Evidence
Direct data
- This is direct official household evidence, but the reference period is 2019–20; freshness is reflected in confidence and disclosure.
- ABS publishes the verified decile curve through P90; Worth99 does not infer P95 from the top decile.
- Do not extrapolate below P10 or above P90.
Source and publication context
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Household Income and Wealth, Australia, 2019–20. WORTH99 adapts published statistics for comparisons, not ABS unit-record microdata or third-party material; no ABS endorsement is implied.
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