{"url":"https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf","section":"learn","title":"What is a Treasury ETF? | ETFIQ","description":"As of Nov 4, 2026, 125 bond ETFs own 90% or more in U.S. Treasuries, and the median bond ETF has a duration of 4.3 years. Updated every trading night.","as_of":"Nov 4, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf#article","headline":"What is a Treasury ETF?","description":"As of Nov 4, 2026, 125 bond ETFs own 90% or more in U.S. Treasuries, and the median bond ETF has a duration of 4.3 years.","url":"https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf","mainEntityOfPage":"https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf","dateModified":"2026-11-04","datePublished":"2026-11-04","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ETFIQ Research","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ETFIQ Research","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"about":"What is a Treasury ETF?","inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf#questions","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Are Treasury ETFs risk free?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"They carry little default risk. Prices still fall when rates rise, and the longer the duration, the more."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What is duration?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"A rule of thumb for how much a bond fund\u2019s price changes when rates move 1 point."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"How does ETFIQ tell a fund is mostly Treasuries?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"From the bonds it files, not from its name."}}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"ETFIQ","item":"https://etfiq.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Learn","item":"https://etfiq.com/learn/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What is a Treasury ETF?","item":"https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf"}]},{"@type":"WebPage","name":"What is a Treasury ETF?","description":"As of Nov 4, 2026, 125 bond ETFs own 90% or more in U.S. Treasuries, and the median bond ETF has a duration of 4.3 years. Updated every trading night.","url":"https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf","dateModified":"2026-11-04","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede",".faq"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":1889,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Learn / What is a Treasury ETF? \n \n What is a Treasury ETF?\n Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.\n As of Nov 4, 2026, 125 bond ETFs own 90% or more in U.S. Treasuries, and the median bond ETF has a duration of 4.3 years.\n \n In plain words\n A Treasury ETF owns bonds, notes and bills issued by the US government, so default risk is low. The risk that remains is interest rates: prices fall when rates rise. \n ETFIQ finds 125 funds with 90% or more in Treasuries, from N-PORT filings. They differ most by duration: of 791 bond funds, 137 are under one year, 619 between one and ten and 35 ten years or more. A bill fund barely moves when rates change; a long fund can move a lot. Duration is dated on every bond fund page.\n Questions\n Are Treasury ETFs risk free? They carry little default risk. Prices still fall when rates rise, and the longer the duration, the more.\n What is duration? A rule of thumb for how much a bond fund\u2019s price changes when rates move 1 point.\n How does ETFIQ tell a fund is mostly Treasuries? From the bonds it files, not from its name.\n Where to next\n Bonds Screener: filter every ETF Compare two ETFs What is a high-yield bond ETF? What is a municipal bond ETF? What is bond ETF duration? All ETF explainers How ETFIQ computes these numbers \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, What is a Treasury ETF?, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, What is a Treasury ETF?, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf APA ETFIQ. (Nov 4, 2026). What is a Treasury ETF?. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf Markdown [What is a Treasury ETF? (ETFIQ, Nov 4, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Data ETFIQ computes is free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms.","citation":"ETFIQ, What is a Treasury ETF?, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/learn/what-is-a-treasury-etf"}