Wealth and Income, 2010-12

4 Jul 2014 01:09 PM

Key points

• Median household wealth was about seven times larger than median household gross annual income.
• The distribution of wealth was more unequal than the distribution of income.
• Households in the top income quintile held 44% of aggregate total wealth.
• Whilst over half (55%) of households in the lowest income quintile had no property wealth, 7% of households who found themselves in this bottom income group had net property wealth of £250,000 or more.