Build custom tables and charts from BEA's distribution of personal income statistics with BEA’s newest data analysis tool.
The Income Data Analysis Tool, or IDAT, launched today in conjunction with the latest release of BEA’s national distribution of personal income statistics. This tool allows users to explore BEA’s state and national distribution of personal income data by creating custom visualizations and tables based on income concepts, years, and income quantiles.
Distribution of personal income statistics take one of BEA’s primary economic indicators—U.S. personal income—and measure how it is distributed across households. This provides a way to assess how households share in the nation's economic growth.
Also new with today’s release are statistics showing inflation rates experienced by households at different incomes levels. The income-stratified PCE price index shows changes in the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index broken out by income decile.
The release also includes experimental nowcast data on the distribution of U.S. personal income in 2025. Provisional statistics are provided for 2024, pending the availability of more complete source data for that year. Statistics for 2000-2023 have been updated.
The experimental nowcast statistics rely on machine learning techniques to analyze the relationships between household-level annual distributions and current National Income and Product Account totals. These techniques allow BEA to generate estimates of shares and growth of personal income by quintile before the availability of key source data used to produce the full distribution of personal income statistics.
The distributional statistics combine data such as demographic surveys, aggregated tax records, and administrative records with BEA data.
Users can also access the distribution of personal income statistics in NIPA Table 2.10 in BEA’s Interactive Data Tables.