Historical Income Tables: Income Inequality

Table 6. Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion

Table 7. Selected Measures of Equivalence-Adjusted Income Dispersion

Table H-1. Limits for Household Income Quintiles and Top 5 Percent of Households

Table H-2. Share of Aggregate Income Received by Household Income Quintile and Top 5 Percent of Households

Table H-3. Mean Household Income Received by Income Quintile and Top 5 Percent of Households

Table H-4. Gini Index for Household Income by Race and Hispanic Origin of Householder

Table F-1. Limits for Family Income Quintiles and Top 5 Percent of Families

Table F-2. Share of Aggregate Income Received by Family Income Quintile and Top 5 Percent of Families

Table F-3. Mean Family Income Received by Income Quintile and Top 5 Percent of Families

Table F-4. Gini Index for Family Income by Race and Hispanic Origin of Householder

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The U.S. Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data used to produce this product (Data Management System [DMS] number: P-7534374, Disclosure Review Board [DRB] approval number: CBDRB-FY26-0279). To further protect respondent privacy, all estimates in this report have undergone additional rounding. As a result, details may not sum to totals. 

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