[horrified]

In my country (Germany) afaik a little over 10% of the population are at least millionaires. So I think the likelihood to have a millionaire living next door is quite high.

[he_is_legend]

Anecdotal (but nevertheless true): I have (at least) two millionaire neighbours (less than 3 doors/gates away). Both won the lottery - one euromillions and one national lotto draw.

And if we are talking average income, then everyone on this side of the village is a millionaire simply because of those two. However, most of the rest of us seem to struggle daily.

[shadilay]

I think almost all my neighbors are 'millionaires' but 90% have median incomes for the city. Their net worth is just their house.

[jacquesm]

There is some chance that the bank owns their house, or at least some sizeable fraction of it. Mortgages are more common than houses that are paid off.

[horrified]

Why shouldn't the house count, though?

[tticvs]

It is actually about 1.6% of the population

[horrified]

Seems I misremebered it, thanks. I found two different estimates right now, too, one for ~1.6%, one for ~0.4%.

Sometimes real estate the owners live in themselves is not counted?

With 1.6% the odds of having a millionaire neighbor would still be high.