🇳🇱 the Netherlands·Household net wealth
How does your net worth compare in the Netherlands?
Enter your household net worth after debts. See your percentile — and what it actually means.
Our household is worth about €AFTER DEBTS in the Netherlands.
Your position · the Netherlands households
TOP50%
Upper middle
Above the median of € 106K. Typically homeowners with a part-paid mortgage.
You outrank 50% of households in the Netherlands. That's 1.0× the the Netherlands median net worth.
The anchors of the distribution
Median, mean, top decile.
The median household in the Netherlands is worth € 106K. The mean is € 220K: the 2.1× gap is the signature of a long right tail. The top decile begins at € 538K; the bottom decile sits below € 400.
Bottom decile
€ 400
Often students, young renters, or households with negative net worth from consumer credit.
Median household
€ 106K
You sit € 0 above the median.
Top decile starts at
€ 538K
€ 433K away from joining the top decile.
The full distribution
Household wealth in the Netherlands, on a log scale.
Each bar is a wealth bracket; its height is the share of all households in that bracket. The x-axis is logarithmic, so a small and a large fortune don't look like they live on different planets. Half of the Netherlands sits below the dashed median line; one in ten sit above the top-decile line.
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Each bar is a decile of households, 10% each; its height is how tightly that tenth is packed in wealth terms, derived from the published decile thresholds. The top bar covers everyone above the ninth decile.
Where this number ranks abroad
Your net worth, across comparable countries.
Same household-net-worth methodology, converted to each country's currency at approximate exchange rates. Where your number lands tells you something different in each economy.
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Median household
Your position
🇯🇵Japan
¥14.2M
Top 45%1.2× their median
🇳🇱the Netherlandsyour country
€106K
Top 50%1.0× their median
🇩🇪Germany
€107K
Top 50%1.0× their median
🇦🇹Austria
€128K
Top 53%0.8× their median
🇫🇷France
€126K
Top 53%0.8× their median
🇪🇸Spain
€128K
Top 56%0.8× their median
🇺🇸the United States
$193K
Top 60%0.6× their median
🇮🇹Italy
€159K
Top 63%0.7× their median
🇦🇺Australia
A$579K
Top 71%0.3× their median
🇬🇧the United Kingdom
£294K
Top 73%0.3× their median
🇨🇦Canada
CA$520K
Top 85%0.3× their median
The filled bar shows your position on each country's distribution; the notch sits at the country median. Cross-country figures use approximate market exchange rates; inter-quantile points are interpolated from published deciles.
Three numbers worth the asterisk
What the percentile hides.
The mean vs median gap
The mean is 2.1× the median.
The median household in the Netherlands holds € 106K; the mean is € 220K. That gap is the signature of a long right tail: a small number of very wealthy households pulls the average up, which is why the median is the truer middle.
The first rung
The first € 20K separates the bottom from the middle.
Below the lower deciles, households are typically renters with limited financial assets. Above this line, a primary residence enters the picture and the asset base compounds. The moment of buying is the single biggest step on the wealth ladder.
The pension blind spot
Your real economic wealth is higher than this.
This measure excludes accrued entitlements from public and most occupational pension schemes, so the real economic wealth of a typical household is meaningfully higher than the figure shown. The wealthier you are, the smaller that adjustment is in proportion.
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Next steps
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The income twin of this page: your percentile and tier from the same survey family.
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How much of your take-home pay you keep, versus other economies.
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Can I afford a house in the Netherlands?
What you can buy at your income and current mortgage rates.
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Frequently asked questions
Based on ECB HFCS Wave 2021 data (reference 2021), a household net wealth of €538,200 places you in the top 10% in the Netherlands. HFCS Statistical Tables Table J3 does not publish top-5% or top-1% thresholds — the highest published quantile is the 90th percentile. These figures include real estate equity (after mortgage), financial assets, and business equity.
The median Dutch household has a net wealth of approximately €105,600 (ECB HFCS, reference year 2021). This is surprisingly low for one of Europe's richest countries — the explanation lies in the Dutch mortgage culture. The mean is much higher at €219,600, reflecting concentrated wealth at the top.
The Netherlands has some of Europe's highest household incomes but one of its lowest median wealth figures. The reason is mortgages: Dutch banks historically offered 100%+ loan-to-value mortgages, and interest-only mortgages were standard until 2013. This means many homeowners — especially those who bought before 2013 — carry enormous mortgage debt relative to their property value, dragging net wealth close to zero. A household earning €70,000/year may have a €400,000 home but a €380,000 mortgage, leaving net wealth of just €20,000.
A household net worth of €250,000 places you around the 70th percentile — well above the median of €105,600 but below the top 10% threshold of €538,200. You have more wealth than about 70% of Dutch households.
The Dutch median of ~€105,600 is strikingly low compared to Italy (~€159,000), Spain (~€120,000), or even Germany (~€107,000). This is almost entirely explained by mortgage debt: Dutch households owe about 100% of GDP in mortgages, the highest in the eurozone. Exclude mortgage debt, and Dutch gross assets are among Europe's highest.
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