how much money does the average person have in the stock market?
As of 2020, the top 10 percent of Americans owned an average of $969,000 in stocks. The next 40 percent owned $132,000 on average. For the bottom half of families, it was just under $54,000. We've seen a massive rise in the S&P 500 since 2009, meaning that serious wealth has been made by the wealthiest of Americans.