Households with a net worth of $1 million or more, excluding their primary residence, totaled 7.8 million in 2009, up from 6.7 million in 2008, according to Spectrem Group.
The number of millionaire households shrank by 27 percent in 2008, it said.
The current total is still well below the record 9.2 million millionaire households reported in 2007, Spectrem said.
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