Consumer credit

Trace consumer debt from balances to delinquency

How much credit Americans hold outside their mortgage, what it costs, and how much of it goes bad. The Federal Reserve's G.19 release measures total consumer credit outstanding, seasonally adjusted, at $5,166.9 billion in Jun 2026, split into revolving credit (mostly cards, $1,351.1 billion) and nonrevolving credit (auto and student loans, $3,815.8 billion). Cards carried a 20.94% average rate that quarter; the bank delinquency rate on card loans was 2.92%. Every figure on this page is computed from the Fed data at build.

$5,166.9B

Total consumer credit

Jun 2026, SA (+2.4% y/y)

26.1%

Revolving share

$1,351.1B revolving

20.94%

Credit-card APR

all accounts, 2026:Q2

2.92%

Credit-card delinquency

2026:Q1, all commercial banks

Data as of G.19 volumes through Jun 2026, delinquency rates through 2026:Q1 (Federal Reserve via FRED)

What this page is. The credit-volumes-and-delinquencies view of US consumer credit, from two Federal Reserve Board releases. It is not the CFPB complaints database (counts of grievances, not dollars), and it is not the NY Fed household-debt panel on conditions (the Equifax Consumer Credit Panel, which measures household debt including mortgages and the share of balances 90+ days delinquent). Here delinquency is the commercial-bank call-report rate and volume is the G.19 aggregate, which excludes mortgages. The three are complementary reads of the same households.

Consumer credit

Nonrevolving loans dominate the US consumer-credit stock

US consumer credit from 1943 to 2026 measured monthly in billions. Nonrevolving credit, the auto and student loans that dominate the total, stands at $3,815.8 billion; revolving credit, mostly card balances, at $1,351.1 billion, 26.1% of the $5,166.9-billion total. Revolving credit is the cyclical leg: it fell outright after 2008 as households deleveraged and again in 2020. Over the year to Jun 2026 the total changed +2.4%.

Nonrevolving (auto, student) NONREVSLRevolving (mostly cards) REVOLSL

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Source: Federal Reserve G.19 Consumer Credit, via FRED (TOTALSL, REVOLSL, NONREVSL, TERMCB*) Monthly, seasonally adjusted; FRED serves these in millions, converted to billions here. Total consumer credit is defined as revolving plus nonrevolving (the identity is checked at every build). Shaded bands are the 2001, 2007-09, and 2020 recessions (NBER reference dates). Consumer credit excludes loans secured by real estate. Methodology

Consumer credit

Credit cards carry a double-digit rate premium over new-car loans

Quarterly US borrowing rates in percent over the charted period. The G.19 terms-of-credit table prices two very different debts. In 2026:Q2 the average credit-card rate across all accounts was 20.94%, and across accounts actually assessed interest it was 22.15%; the finance rate on a 48-month new-car loan at commercial banks was 7.47%. The card-to-car gap, roughly 13.5 points, is the price of unsecured revolving credit over a loan backed by collateral.

Credit-card APR, all accounts TERMCBCCALLNSNew-car 48-month loan rate TERMCBAUTO48NS

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Source: Federal Reserve G.19 Consumer Credit, via FRED (TOTALSL, REVOLSL, NONREVSL, TERMCB*) Quarterly prints (the G.19 terms table is quarterly), not seasonally adjusted. The new-car rate begins in 1972 and the credit-card rate in 1994, so the card line starts later. A third series, the card APR on accounts assessed interest, is cited in the text and available on FRED as TERMCBCCINTNS. Methodology

Consumer credit

Credit-card delinquency remains well below its series peak

Quarterly US delinquency and charge-off rates in percent from 1985 to present. The Federal Reserve's Charge-Off and Delinquency release measures loans past due at commercial banks. In 2026:Q1 the credit-card delinquency rate was 2.92%, consumer loans overall 2.64%, single-family mortgages 1.89%, and all loans 1.48%. The card record over the series' own history is 6.77% in 2009:Q2, and today's rate is 43 percent of that peak. The card charge-off rate, the share written off as a loss, ran 3.84% the same quarter.

Credit card DRCCLACBSConsumer loans DRCLACBSSingle-family mortgage DRSFRMACBSAll loans (benchmark) DRALACBS

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Source: Federal Reserve, Charge-Off and Delinquency Rates on Loans and Leases at Commercial Banks, via FRED Quarterly, seasonally adjusted, all commercial banks. A loan is delinquent when 30+ days past due and still accruing, plus nonaccrual loans. These call-report rates exclude credit unions and finance companies; the NY Fed panel on the conditions page covers a broader lender set through Equifax. The mortgage line here is the bank-book rate, a different construction from the household-panel delinquency shown on conditions. Methodology

Related: complaints about these products on consumer complaints; the household balance sheet and the NY Fed 90+ day delinquency panel on financial conditions; mortgage originations and denials on mortgage. Every series links to FRED: TOTALSL, DRCCLACBS. See the methodology for series definitions, the identity check, and every limitation.