Federal Reserve Statistical Release – Z.1 Financial Accounts of the United States. Flow of Funds, Balance Sheets, and Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts, Third Quarter 2013

“Household net worth – the difference between the values of households’ assets and liabilities – was $77.3 trillion at the end of the third quarter of this year, about $1.9 trillion more than at the end of the second quarter. In the third quarter, the value of corporate equities and mutual funds owned by households expanded $917 billion and the value of residential real estate owned by households increased about $428 billion. Domestic nonfinancial debt outstanding was $41.4 trillion at the end of the third quarter of 2013, of which  household debt was $13.1 trillion, nonfinancial business  debt was $13.4 trillion, and total government debt was $15.0 trillion. Domestic nonfinancial debt growth was 3.5 percent at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in the third quarter of 2013, about the same as the second quarter pace.”