Historical Income Tables: Income Inequality

Table A-4a and A-4b. Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion

Table A-5. Selected Measures of Equivalence-Adjusted Income Dispersion

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

Table H-4. Gini Indexes for Households, by Race and Hispanic Origin of Householder

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

Table F-3. Mean Income Received by Each Fifth and Top 5 Percent of Families

Table F-4. Gini Indexes of Families by Race and Hispanic Origin of Householder

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The 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-FY24-0434). To further protect respondent privacy, all estimates in this report have undergone additional rounding. As a result, this year's estimates may differ from previous publications and details may not sum to totals.

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