average debt in american household
The State of American Credit Card Debt in 2015. The average American household owes $7,281 in credit card debt â and that average includes families with no debt at all. Americans continue to dig a deeper hole when it comes to credit card debt. According to the Federal Reserve and other government statistics, our penchant for indebtedness means that the average household now owes $7,281 in credit card debt alone.