Credit Card Accounts in the United States decreased to 647.96 Million in the first quarter of 2026 from 648.10 Million in the fourth quarter of 2025. Credit Card Accounts in the United States averaged 472.71 Million from 2003 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 648.10 Million in the fourth quarter of 2025 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	647.96	648.10	Million	Mar 2026
Debt Balance Auto Loans	1.69	1.67	Trillion USD	Mar 2026
Debt Balance Credit Cards	1.25	1.28	Trillion USD	Mar 2026
Debt Balance Mortgages	13.19	13.17	Trillion USD	Mar 2026
Debt Balance Student Loans	1.66	1.66	Trillion USD	Mar 2026
Total Household Debt	18.79	18.78	USD Trillion	Mar 2026

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.