Credit Card Accounts in the United States increased to 600.53 Million in the third quarter of 2024 from 599.10 Million in the second quarter of 2024. Credit Card Accounts in the United States averaged 461.36 Million from 2003 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 600.53 Million in the third quarter of 2024 and a record low of 377.90 Million in the third quarter of 2010. source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Related	Last	Previous	Unit	Reference
Credit Card Accounts	600.53	599.10	Million	Sep 2024
Debt Balance Auto Loans	1.64	1.63	Trillion USD	Sep 2024
Debt Balance Credit Cards	1.17	1.14	Trillion USD	Sep 2024
Debt Balance Mortgages	12.59	12.52	Trillion USD	Sep 2024
Debt Balance Student Loans	1.61	1.59	Trillion USD	Sep 2024
Total Household Debt	17.90	17.80	USD Trillion	Sep 2024

United States Credit Card Accounts

The New York Fed has designed and established the Consumer Credit Panel, a dataset on household liabilities based on consumer credit data. The Consumer Credit Panel provides detailed quarterly data on a panel of US consumers from 1999 through the present. The unique sampling design provides a random, nationally representative 5% sample of US consumers as well as the members of their households with a credit report.