Bottom 5% thresholdFamily unit (economic family or person not in an economic family) · 2023
CAD 1,030Registered source cutoff
CAN · DIRECT DATA
Canada wealth benchmarks
Family unit (economic family or person not in an economic family) · 2023. Verified cutoffs: Bottom 5% threshold to Top 5% threshold.
AT A GLANCE
Key net-worth figures
Median net worthCAD 521,100
Top 10% cutoffCAD 2,504,000
Bottom 10% cutoffCAD 12,500
Also available: People living alone, by age group · 2023 → This additional reference has a different population and does not establish a personal percentile.
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Period2023
CurrencyCAD
Published cutoffsBottom 5% threshold to Top 5% threshold
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Family unit (economic family or person not in an economic family) net worth · 2023
4.8×In Canada, the top 10% starts at about 4.8× the wealth of the middle family unit (economic family or person not in an economic family).
Difference in amount: CAD 1,982,900
Family unit (economic family or person not in an economic family) net worth · 2023 · CAD.
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People living alone, by age group · 2023
Canadian persons living alone in private households, separated into under-65 and age-65-plus groups; not every Canadian adult
Wealth measure: Statistics Canada's Survey of Financial Security 2023 assets less debts, measured for persons living alone
Individual · CAD · Statistics Canada, The assets, debts and net worth of Canadian families, 2023, persons-living-alone categories
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Selected group: Age · Living alone · Under 65 · Median.
Original source group
Median net worth, living alone under age 65 · Persons living alone, under 65 · Individual.
Source, reuse conditions and limitations
- This is not an all-adult personal net-worth median. Every selected group comprises people living alone.
- The under-65 and 65-plus published groups are separate. Do not combine their medians or apply either to all ages.
- Wealth is assets less debts in the 2023 survey; no population percentile is calculated.
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security, 2023, 'The assets, debts and net worth of Canadian families, 2023.' WORTH99 selects and displays the original persons-living-alone age-category medians, unchanged, and calculates optional differences between amounts. Statistics Canada does not endorse WORTH99.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Reference & method
Wealth basis
Statistics Canada SFS termination-basis family net worth = PWNETWPT = PWATOTPT - PWDTOTAL; employer-sponsored pension plans are included on a termination basis
Sources
CA_SFS_2023_PUMF_TERMINATION
Confidence
High confidence
Evidence
Direct data
- Statistics Canada SFS 2023 uses a family-unit reference: economic families plus persons not in an economic family. WORTH99 preserves that source construct and does not silently convert it to Household.
- The direct P5-P95 curve is reconstructed from the released public-use family file using registered derivation CA_SFS_2023_V1_1, termination-basis net worth PWNETWPT and survey weight PWEIGHT. The source ZIP, main CSV, audit and truth curve are hash-verified; all registered knots use deterministic weighted-ECDF first crossing.
- The production-database median CAD519,700 belongs to a separate pre-perturbation publication lineage. This PUMF route uses the direct PUMF median CAD521,100 and does not mix grouped production-table medians into the curve.
- Statistics Canada cautions that the PUMF is not representative enough for very-high-wealth inference above the top 5%; WORTH99 therefore stops at P95 and does not infer P99.
Source and publication context
Statistics Canada (2023 SFS)
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security: Public Use Microdata File, 2023. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted source data; no publisher endorsement is implied.