The bar chart presents data on household totals in the United States across five income bands—less than $25,000, $25–49
thousand
, $50–74 Use synonyms
thousand
, $75–99 Use synonyms
thousand
, and $100,000 or more—for 2007, 2011 and 2015.
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Overall
, the $100,000+ bracket expanded to become the largest by 2015, Linking Words
whereas
both middle bands eased. Linking Words
By contrast
, the $75–99 Linking Words
thousand
group was consistently the smallest, and households below $25,000 edged up.
In 2007, $100k+ stood at around thirty Use synonyms
million
, narrowly ahead of $25–49 Use synonyms
thousand
(~27 Use synonyms
million
); under $25,000 was roughly twenty-six Use synonyms
million
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while
$50–74 Linking Words
thousand
and $75–99 Use synonyms
thousand
were near twenty-one and fourteen Use synonyms
million
, respectively.
By 2011, $25–49 Use synonyms
thousand
rose to ≈30 Use synonyms
million
, becoming the largest, Use synonyms
whereas
$100k+ dipped marginally to just under twenty-nine Linking Words
million
and under $25,000 climbed to close to twenty-nine; meanwhile, $50–74 Use synonyms
thousand
eased to around twenty to twenty-one, and $75–99 Use synonyms
thousand
remained near fourteen.
In 2015, $100k+ jumped to about thirty-three Use synonyms
million
, overtaking all categories; under $25,000 and $25–49 Use synonyms
thousand
were roughly twenty-eight to twenty-nine, Use synonyms
whereas
$50–74 Linking Words
thousand
hovered near twenty-one and $75–99 Use synonyms
thousand
ticked up to around fifteen.Use synonyms