Poll: How many DUers have a 401k or IRA

[Yo_Mama]

69. I don't know if it will help you

but supposedly a bit over 54% of the US has stocks according to this 2011 survey:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/147206/stock-market-investments-lowest-1999.aspx

A lot of them have not very much in stocks, because a lot of those accounts are very small. The distribution of who owns stocks is not even at all, as you would expect:

Eighty-seven percent of upper-income Americans -- those making $75,000 or more annually -- own stocks, as do 83% of postgraduates and 73% of college graduates. Sixty-four percent of Republicans hold stocks, compared with half of Democrats and independents. Men are more likely than women to be stock owners. Those aged 50 to 64 are the most likely of any age group to say they have money invested in the stock market.

But of course younger people are vastly less likely to have these types of investments.

Here's another article about distributions of total savings and investments, which would include stocks:
http://allfinancialmatters.com/2010/03/29/77-of-american-workers-have-less-than-100000-in-savings-investments/

54% of have less than 25K in total savings and investments. Another 23% have between 25K and 100K. Only 22% have over 100K in total savings and investments, which includes savings accounts, IRAs and stocks and bonds.