Half of richest households are in south According to the ONS, 49.6 per cent of British households with wealth of over £967,000 - the richest 10 per cent in the country - are located in London, the south-east, the south-west or East Anglia. Conversely, just 15 per cent of the top 10 per cent wealthiest households are located in the north-east or the north-west, while 6.9 per cent are located in Scotland. According to the ONS, for a household to belong to the richest tenth of homes it needs to have total assets greater than £967,000. This comprises property wealth, pension wealth, savings and other physical assets such as cars, furniture and jewelry. To be in the bottom tenth of homes in the country, a household's wealth has to be less than £13,000. The ONS's figures show that there remains a stark wealth divide in the Britain, with the top tenth of wealthy households having four times more money than the bottom 50 per cent. The wealth held by the richest 10 per cent of households represented a 43.8 per cent share of aggregate total wealth. In contrast, the combined wealth of the bottom half of households accounted for 9.9 per cent of aggregate total wealth," the ONS said. The group's figures shoed that - in total - the richest 10 per cent of households in Britain have 850 times more wealth than the poorest 10 per cent. While the net wealth held by people in the richest 10 per cent of households is £4.5 trillion, this falls to £5.2 billion for the lowest 10 per cent. The ONS's findings showed that provate pensions account for the vast majority of assets held by the wealthiest people.