Households are suddenly a whole lot better off after the government statistician "found" $325 billion in share assets previously unrecognised.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics today released its latest report on household assets which included massive upward revisions to estimates for equity holdings. Total financial assets were now put at $3.1 trillion at the end of March, compared to the originally reported $2.77 trillion.

The revision is worth roughly $14,380 for every one of the nation's 22.6 million people, taking the value of an average Australian's assets to $137,168.

"This issue incorporates new estimates for households holding of unlisted shares and other equity in other private non financial corporations," the statistician drily noted.

The value of such equity is now put at $383 billion at the end of March, compared to the original $91 billion.