IELTS Academic Writing number of households in the US

The chart below shows the number of households in the US by their annual income in 2007, 2011 and 2015.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The information illustrated in the bar graph gives insights into the yearly income of several families in the United States of America in three different years namely, 2007, 2011 and 2015. The families’ count has been mentioned in millions.

To begin with, the lowest income group of people earning less than 25,000 grew from 25 million in 2007 to around 29 million in the year 2011 and then settled at around 28 million in the year 2015. Almost same pattern was observed for the income group of 25,000 to 49999 and the range varied from around 26 million in 2007 to 28 million in 2015. The income group of 50000 to 74999 was the most stable group and remained almost stable at 22 million in all the three years. The two highest income groups of 75,000 to 99,999 and 100,000 or more, observed almost the same pattern as the figures reduced slightly in 2011 from their level in 2007 and then finally in the year 2015, they grew. But, the growth was more in the higher income group as compared to the other and the numbers in 2015 reached to around 34 million whereas for the second highest income group, the numbers were recorded at 15 million.

Overall, out of the five groups of families, three groups have shown increase in the number of households whereas two groups in the range of 50,000 to 99,000 have remained almost steady.

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