Number of Pets Percentile Calculator
See how your number of pets compares with a relevant reference population.
AVMA 2024 Pet Ownership and Demographics Sourcebook — introduction
AVMA 2017–2018 Pet Ownership and Demographics Sourcebook — full categorical data
At year-end 2016, AVMA reported 57% of U.S. households owned a pet. Among pet-owning households, 39% had one, 26% had two, 12% had three, 7% had four, and 17% had five or more dogs, cats, birds, or horses. Humanlytic combines these rounded shares into all-household cumulative ranges.
What this calculator measures
See how your number of pets compares with a relevant reference population. The comparison uses the reference population and evidence identified on this page.
How to interpret your result
A percentile describes the approximate percentage of the stated reference population with a lower value. When a source supports only categories, medians, or averages, Humanlytic shows that broader comparison instead of inventing an exact percentile.
How this works
Evidence quality
Calculated from survey data
Method
Humanlytic combines AVMA’s year-end 2016 household ownership rate with its published pet-owning-household count categories. Results are cumulative category ranges for all U.S. households; values of five or more remain grouped together.
Data source
American Veterinary Medical Association — Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook
Limitations
The freely accessible 2024 sourcebook introduction does not publish a complete household pet-count distribution. Humanlytic therefore uses AVMA’s directly reported 2016 categories: 43% of all households had no pet; among the 57% that owned pets, 39% had one, 26% had two, 12% had three, 7% had four, and 17% had five or more. Source percentages are rounded.