Definition: Estimated percentage of aggregate household income by quintile (e.g., in 2019, households with incomes in the highest quintile (80th percentile and above) earned 52% of all household income in California).
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey summary files and public use microdata (Oct. 2020).
Footnote: Lowest quintile households are the 20 percent of households with the lowest incomes, second quintile households are those with incomes between the 20th and 40th percentile, and so on. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because the margin of error was greater than 5 percentage points. N/A means that data are not available.
