Know where you stand. Enter everything you own and everything you owe — and see your net worth and how much of your assets are financed by debt.
A point-in-time snapshot. Net worth is most useful tracked over time — the trend matters more than any single number. Nothing you enter is stored.
Net worth is simply what you own minus what you owe. One reading is a snapshot; the real value is watching it grow over time as you pay down debt and build assets. The debt-to-asset ratio shows how leveraged you are.
Net worth is a balance-sheet statement, not an income statement. It answers one question: if every asset were sold today at the value you entered and every debt settled, what would be left? It says nothing about whether money is coming in, whether the assets produce income, or whether you could access the value without selling something you live in. A household with $70,000 of net worth tied up entirely in home equity and a household with $70,000 in a brokerage account have the same number and completely different financial lives.
The defaults are $250,000 of assets and $180,000 of liabilities. Net worth is 250,000 − 180,000 = $70,000. The debt-to-asset ratio is 180,000 ÷ 250,000 = 72%, so debt funds 72 cents of every dollar of assets and you own the remaining 28%.
Now the figure the headline does not show you. Assets of $250,000 sitting on net worth of $70,000 is a leverage multiple of 250,000 ÷ 70,000 = 3.57×. Suppose the house inside that $250,000 is worth $200,000 and the market softens 10%, taking $20,000 off. Assets fall to $230,000 — a drop of 8%. Net worth falls to 230,000 − 180,000 = $50,000, a drop of 28.6%, and the debt-to-asset ratio climbs to 78.3%. An 8% move in the asset column became a 28.6% move in net worth, because debt does not shrink when values do. That asymmetry is what leverage means in practice, and it is why the ratio deserves as much attention as the dollar figure.
Take $10,000 of cash and pay down $10,000 of debt. Assets fall to $240,000, liabilities fall to $170,000, and net worth is 240,000 − 170,000 = $70,000 — exactly where it started. The ratio does improve, from 72% to 70.8%. This surprises people, and it matters: paying down debt from savings does not build net worth, it de-risks it. Net worth grows only when you add money from outside the balance sheet (income you did not spend) or when assets appreciate. Debt paydown from income does both at once, which is why it feels like progress — but the paydown half is the de-risking half, not the building half.
Treat these as rules of thumb, not thresholds, because they vary enormously with age, housing market and whether you are self-employed. A debt-to-asset ratio under 50% is generally considered comfortable and over 80% is generally considered stretched, but a 28-year-old with a new mortgage will sit high by arithmetic alone and that is not a problem in itself. What matters more is direction: the ratio falling year over year while net worth rises is the pattern you want. A single reading tells you almost nothing.
The commonest is valuing assets at what you hope rather than what you would get — use a realistic sale price net of selling costs, not a listing price. The second is omitting liabilities that feel invisible: an outstanding tax bill, a car lease residual, money owed to family. The third is counting a retirement account at its full balance when a withdrawal before retirement age would be taxed and possibly penalised; the balance is real but the spendable amount is smaller. The fourth, and the one that quietly distorts a business owner's number, is putting a guess at business value into the asset column — if the business would not sell for it, it is not worth it.
This calculator gives you one reading. The number only becomes useful as a series — the same categories, recorded the same way, once a month, so you can see whether the trend is up and whether the ratio is falling. A calculator cannot hold that history. If you already track income and expenses, add an assets-and-liabilities tab beside them so the monthly close produces the net-worth figure automatically from balances you are updating anyway; the bookkeeping setup is the natural home for it.
Add up everything you own (assets) and subtract everything you owe (liabilities). The result is your net worth. This calculator also shows your debt-to-asset ratio.
Assets: cash, savings, investments, retirement accounts, home and vehicle values, and any business equity. Liabilities: mortgage, car and student loans, credit-card balances, and other debts.
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