Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTChristy BieberSat, August 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM GMT+2 5 min readAmericans, on the whole, owe a lot of money. Collectively, households across the country owe $18.8 trillion to creditors, with mortgage debt accounting for around $13.1 trillion of that amount. Experian data also showed the