Large Black-white wealth gaps existed across all major assets

Share of U.S. households with specific assets and conditional mean and median values of major assets, by race, 2019

Notes: Retirement wealth includes balances in retirement accounts such as 401(k)s and IRAs as well as the imputed wealth of defined benefit pensions. Dollar amounts of home equity, business assets, and retirement wealth are conditional on having those assets. Sample includes all households not retired at least 25 years old and older. "N/A" stands for not applicable.
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, "Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) 2019," available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm (last accessed November 2020); John Sabelhaus and Alice Henriques Volz, "Are Disappearing Employer Pensions Contributing to Rising Wealth Inequality?", Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 1, 2019, available at https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2308.
Table: Center for American Progress