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Who is in this group?
Pick an income fifth to see which families, homes and places make it up, or pick a group to see where its people sit between the lowest and highest incomes. Many groups also show how their low-income rate has changed since 1994/95.
Evidence last reviewed 31 October 2026
Income fifths
Each fifth holds a fifth of people in the UK, ranked by household income adjusted for household size (Family Resources Survey, April 2024 to March 2025).
Groups of people
Economic status of adults in the family
- People in families with a full-time self-employed adulttrend since 1994/95
- People in families where every adult works full timetrend since 1994/95
- People in couples where one works full time and one part timetrend since 1994/95
- People in couples where one works full time and one does not worktrend since 1994/95
- People in families with part-time but no full-time worktrend since 1994/95
- People in workless families with someone aged 60 or overtrend since 1994/95
- People in workless families with someone unemployedtrend since 1994/95
- People in other workless familiestrend since 1994/95
Family type
- People in pensioner couplestrend since 1994/95
- Single pensioners
- Single male pensionerstrend since 1994/95
- Single female pensionerstrend since 1994/95
- People in couples with childrentrend since 1994/95
- People in couples without childrentrend since 1994/95
- People in single-parent familiestrend since 1994/95
- Single adults without children
- Single men without childrentrend since 1994/95
- Single women without childrentrend since 1994/95
Adults and children
- Adult mentrend since 1994/95
- Adult womentrend since 1994/95
- Childrentrend since 1994/95
Couple or single
Disability and age group
Ethnic group of the head of household
- White
- Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups
- Asian/Asian British
- Black/African/Caribbean/Black British
- Other ethnic group
Three-year averages, April 2022 to March 2025.
Disability in the family
- People in families where no one is disabledtrend since 1994/95
- People in families where someone is disabledtrend since 1994/95
- People in families with a disabled adult but no disabled childtrend since 1994/95
- People in families with a disabled childtrend since 1994/95
- People in families with a disabled child and no disabled adulttrend since 1994/95
- People in families with a disabled child and a disabled adulttrend since 1994/95
- People in families receiving disability benefitstrend since 1994/95
- People in families with a disabled member but no disability benefitstrend since 1994/95
Housing tenure
Bank or payment account
Family savings and investments
Region or nation
- Englandtrend since 1994/95
- North Easttrend since 1994/95
- North Westtrend since 1994/95
- Yorkshire and the Humbertrend since 1994/95
- East Midlandstrend since 1994/95
- West Midlandstrend since 1994/95
- East of Englandtrend since 1994/95
- Londontrend since 1994/95
- South Easttrend since 1994/95
- South Westtrend since 1994/95
- Walestrend since 1994/95
- Scotlandtrend since 1994/95
- Northern Irelandtrend since 1994/95
Three-year averages, April 2022 to March 2025.
Built from official tables and checked by automated tests; it has not yet had independent analytical review. About these numbers.