I was surfing through the wealth of data available in the Statistics Canada web pages and stumbled upon the net worth statistics of Canadians. The data was collected in a 1999 survey and net worth is defined as the value of all financial and non-financial assets (excluding employer-sponsored pension plans) less any liabilities of a family unit. The family units were then ranked by net worth and divided into five quintiles. The results:

Lowest quintile – Less than $7,400
Second quintile – $7,400 – $50,000
Third quintile – $50,000 – $126,100
Fourth quintile – $126,100 – $270,400
Highest quintile – More than $270,400

It looks like it doesn’t take all that much (between $50,000 to $126,100) to have as much net worth as a median Canadian household.