THE SHORT ANSWER
The official total is about 261.5 million fine troy ounces
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service reports 261,498,926.241 fine troy ounces of U.S. government gold as of 2026-06-30, equal to about 8,133.5 metric tonnes. Fort Knox holds the largest single reported location, but the total also includes Denver, West Point, Mint working stock and Treasury-owned gold held by Federal Reserve Banks. The published $11,041,059,958 book value uses a statutory $42.2222 per-ounce rate—not market price.
Fine troy ounces across eight official rows.
Largest named location.
Statutory accounting amount.
2012-01-31 to 2026-06-30.
OFFICIAL DATA EXPLORER
Inspect monthly quantities, custody categories and valuation
Choose the total, Fort Knox, working stock or Federal Reserve-held gold, then select an exact report month. Every chart point, summary and eight-row table follows that same official snapshot. The live or browser-cached gold quote is used only for an optional market-value scenario; it never changes the official quantity or book value.
Crosshairs snap to an actual month-end Treasury record. A flat line is a reported quantity result, not missing data.
Loading a live USD-per-ounce reference… Book value remains the statutory accounting amount.
Optional market-valuation reference
This quote affects only the optional market-value scenario. The official reserve quantity and statutory book value remain sourced from the versioned Treasury archive.
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SELECTED-MONTH VALUATION
Official carrying amount versus an indicative market-price scenario
Both calculations use the same 261,498,926.241 fine oz reported on 2026-06-30. Only the per-ounce valuation basis changes.
This scenario excludes sale authority, liquidity, market impact, transaction costs, custody constraints and policy decisions. It is not a forecast and does not make the arithmetic difference spendable.
| Facility / location | Form | Fine troy ounces | Metric tonnes | Book value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denver, COMint Held Gold - Deep Storage | Gold Bullion | 43,853,707.279 | 1,364 | $1,851,599,995.81 | 16.77% |
| Fort Knox, KYMint Held Gold - Deep Storage | Gold Bullion | 147,341,858.382 | 4,582.84 | $6,221,097,412.78 | 56.35% |
| West Point, NYMint Held Gold - Deep Storage | Gold Bullion | 54,067,331.379 | 1,681.68 | $2,282,841,677.17 | 20.68% |
| All Locations- Coins, blanks, miscellaneousMint Held Gold - Working Stock | Gold Coins | 2,783,218.656 | 86.57 | $117,513,614.74 | 1.06% |
| Federal Reserve Banks - NY VaultFederal Reserve Bank Held Gold | Gold Bullion | 13,376,987.724 | 416.07 | $564,805,851.07 | 5.12% |
| Federal Reserve Banks - DisplayFederal Reserve Bank Held Gold | Gold Bullion | 1,993.321 | 0.06 | $84,162.40 | 0.00% |
| Federal Reserve Banks - NY VaultFederal Reserve Bank Held Gold | Gold Coins | 73,452.066 | 2.28 | $3,101,307.82 | 0.03% |
| Federal Reserve Banks - DisplayFederal Reserve Bank Held Gold | Gold Coins | 377.434 | 0.01 | $15,936.11 | 0.00% |
Data verification detailsArchive date, version identifier and fallback rule
039d714f58be9d15…Full digest is included in the CSV metadataSource: Bureau of the Fiscal Service Status Report of U.S. Government Gold Reserve. GoldObserve serves 174 locally stored official month-end reports from 2012-01-31 through 2026-06-30; the upstream API is used only by the maintenance updater, not on every page load.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
Eight rows connect ownership, custody, form and location
The phrase “held by” describes custody. The dataset and Inspector General schedules describe U.S. government or Treasury-owned gold. Do not combine these rows with foreign official gold stored at the New York Fed or with mineral reserves reported by USGS.
Use the complete U.S. gold reserve location breakdown to compare Fort Knox, West Point, Denver, working stock and Federal Reserve custody on the same record date. The Federal Reserve gold ownership guide explains why a custodian and certificate holder is not the bullion owner.
BOOK VALUE VS. MARKET VALUE
The same ounces can support two very different dollar figures
The legal accounting rate is stable; it is not an offer to buy or sell gold.
The price source and observation time must be disclosed; no sale, liquidity or policy assumption is implied.
A market-value calculation can be useful for scale, but it is a scenario. It does not mean the Treasury can liquidate the entire reserve at one screen price, that Congress or Treasury plans a revaluation, or that the difference between book and market value is distributable cash. The dedicated book-value versus market-value guide explains the accounting boundary in detail.
THREE ACCOUNTS, THREE DIFFERENT UNITS
Physical gold, gold certificates and foreign custody must not be combined
U.S.-government-owned metal in Mint and Federal Reserve Bank custody rows.
This page reconciles the complete eight-row schedule.The statutory carrying amount reported with the physical schedule.
It is not a screen price or sale proceeds.Treasury-issued certificates shown in the Federal Reserve's weekly H.4.1 release.
They are not redeemable physical-gold ownership and are not added here.Foreign and international gold held in New York Fed custody is not U.S. gold stock.
Custody location does not transfer ownership.The Federal Reserve's ownership explanation and weekly H.4.1 balance sheet answer accounting questions that the monthly physical schedule does not. Their dates and units must remain separate.
FORT KNOX IN CONTEXT
Fort Knox is the largest location, not the entire reserve
The official Fort Knox row contains 147,341,858.382 fine troy ounces, or 56.35% of the full latest total. Denver and West Point together hold another 97.921 million fine ounces of deep-storage bullion. Working stock and Federal Reserve-held rows complete the schedule.
The U.S. Mint's Fort Knox record says the first gold arrived in 1937, identifies the present quantity, and distinguishes the depository from a production facility. Use the Fort Knox guide for history, custody, audit and common-claim boundaries.
HOW TO READ CHANGES
A monthly movement needs row-level reconciliation
- 01Match the record dates
Compare complete month-end reports, not one current location with an older total.
- 02Identify the exact row
Separate deep storage, working stock, Federal Reserve-held bullion and coins.
- 03Check quantity before value
A book-value change can reflect a quantity or reporting correction; market value is separate.
- 04Read the revision context
The Fiscal Data API can revise previously published records. Preserve source date and archive generation time.
- 05Avoid motive claims
A row change does not by itself explain a minting operation, transfer, sale, audit sample or policy decision.
AUDIT BOUNDARY
The status report and audit reports answer different questions
The monthly dataset is designed to report fine ounces and statutory book value by custody row. Inspector General reports address audited schedules, responsibilities and accounting policies. The current Federal Reserve-held audit states that the New York Fed holds 99.98% of the U.S.-owned gold bars and coins held by Federal Reserve Banks, while the dedicated FY2025 Mint custodial schedule separately covers deep-storage gold under Mint custody.
Neither source should be overstated. A financial-statement or custodial-schedule audit opinion is not a public bar-by-bar assay database, and a month-end balance is not a photographic inventory. Claims about sampling, sealed compartments, assay work or exceptions must be tied to the exact audit report and period.
How this page stays availableOptional update and verification details
Page loads use GoldObserve's reviewed local history
The site does not re-download 1,392 official rows whenever a visitor opens this page. Updates are checked separately, validated as complete month-end reports and published only after review. If an update fails, the last verified history remains available and keeps its visible record date.
Official machine-readable Treasury records.
No scraped chart or third-party transcription.Served with the application.
No visitor-triggered source request.New rows and revised latest-month records are compared by date and source line.
A full comparison remains available when needed.A failed update does not erase or invent holdings.
The latest record date remains visible.METHODOLOGY
Every displayed total is a transparent sum of official rows
- Downloaded the Bureau of the Fiscal Service `gold_reserve` API and retained record date, facility, form, location, fine troy ounces, book value and source-line number.
- Required exactly eight unique source lines for each of 174 month-end reports; no missing row is estimated.
- Summed all eight rows for the U.S. government total and filtered named facility or location fields for Fort Knox, deep storage, working stock and Federal Reserve-held subtotals.
- Converted fine troy ounces to metric tonnes with 31.1034768 grams per troy ounce.
- Preserved statutory book value exactly as reported; the displayed implied rate is a check, not an independently substituted value.
- Calculated indicative market value only from an explicitly observed live quote or a user-entered scenario. No fallback market price is embedded.
- Did not infer bar count, purity distribution, audit scope, foreign-custody gold, availability for sale, reserve policy or price direction.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Treasury, Fiscal Service, U.S. Mint, Federal Reserve and Inspector General records
- Fiscal Data Status Report of U.S. Government Gold Reserve and its machine-readable API for monthly rows and field definitions.
- Bureau of the Fiscal Service Gold Report for scope, statutory rate and reporting entities.
- Data.gov U.S. Treasury-Owned Gold catalog record for public access, ownership, working-stock and book-value description.
- United States Mint Fort Knox Bullion Depository for facility history, current reported quantity and storage context.
- Treasury OIG-26-004 for the September 30, 2025 and 2024 Federal Reserve Bank-held gold schedules.
- Treasury OIG-26-002 for the FY2025 Mint deep-storage custodial schedule and statutory valuation policy.
- Federal Reserve gold ownership FAQ and H.4.1 for certificate-account and custody boundaries.
- 31 U.S.C. section 5117 for the statutory framework.
FAQ
U.S. government gold reserve questions
How much gold does the U.S. government report?
The latest locally archived Bureau of the Fiscal Service report, dated 2026-06-30, totals 261,498,926.241 fine troy ounces, or about 8,133.5 metric tonnes. It includes Mint deep storage and working stock plus Treasury-owned gold held by Federal Reserve Banks.
How much gold is at Fort Knox?
The latest official row reports 147,341,858.382 fine troy ounces at Fort Knox. That is about 56.3% of the full reported U.S. government total, not all of it.
Is U.S. government gold worth only $42.22 an ounce?
No. The $42.2222 figure is the statutory accounting rate used for book value. It is not an executable market quote, sale price or estimate of what the metal would realize. Market value requires a same-date gold price multiplied by fine troy ounces.
Does the Federal Reserve own the gold in the New York vault rows?
The dataset describes U.S. government or Treasury-owned gold held by Federal Reserve Banks. Custody location is not the same as ownership. The New York rows should not be added to unrelated foreign-custody gold or treated as Federal Reserve investment holdings.
What is deep-storage gold?
Fiscal Service defines deep storage as government gold bullion secured by the Mint in sealed vaults that are examined under the Treasury audit process. It consists primarily of bars. It is separate from working stock used as raw material for congressionally authorized coins.
What is Mint working-stock gold?
Working stock is the Mint-held portion used as raw material for authorized coinage and can include bars, blanks, unsold coins and condemned coins. A change in working stock does not by itself prove a public sale, a newly mined purchase or a policy shift.
Does a stable reserve quantity prove every bar was physically inspected that month?
No. The monthly status report is an official accounting and custody schedule. A repeated balance is not a claim that every bar was independently assayed or opened during that reporting month. Audit scope and procedures must be read from the relevant Inspector General report.
Can the reserve be valued with today's gold price?
Yes, as an indicative scenario: multiply official fine troy ounces by a same-time USD gold price. Keep the price source and observation time visible. The result is not the Treasury carrying amount and does not imply the reserve is available for sale.
Does U.S. gold reserve data predict gold prices?
No. The reserve schedule measures quantity, custody class and statutory book value. It does not report market demand, planned transactions or a price target.