Nobody has counted the world's family offices. Here is every figure that has been published, with its method beside it.
more than 3,380 single family offices in Hong Kong and more than 2,000 in Singapore at the end of 2025, by their governments. 2,290 in all of Asia Pacific, by the consultant most often quoted. Two cities hold more than twice the figure for their whole region. The counts are not wrong; they are counting different things, and only one of them can be re-run.
A comparison of other publishers' figures, graded by method. ParetoAlpha has not counted family offices. Not investment, legal or tax advice.
Eight figures, six methods, one that can be re-run.
| Figure | Counts | As of | Publisher | Method | Re-runnable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,030 | Single family offices, worldwide | 2024 | Deloitte Private The Family Office Insights Series, Global Edition (press release) | Survey, modelled From a survey of 354 single family offices between September and December 2023, plus interviews; the population figure is modelled from it. | No |
| 2,290 | Single family offices, Asia Pacific | 2024 | Deloitte Private The Family Office Insights Series, Global Edition (press release) | Survey, modelled Same study as the worldwide figure. | No |
| 10,720 | Family offices, worldwide, projected | 2030 | Deloitte Private The Family Office Insights Series, Global Edition (press release) | Projection Extrapolated by the publisher from its 2024 estimate. The figure panels round to "10,000". | No |
| more than 3,380 | Single family offices, Hong Kong | 2025-12-31 | Government of Hong Kong, citing a Deloitte study commissioned by Invest Hong Kong news.gov.hk, 10 February 2026 | Commissioned estimate The statement says the figure rose by about 680 in two years. By that arithmetic (ours, not the statement's), about 2,700 at the end of 2023. | No |
| more than 2,000 | Single family offices awarded tax incentives under sections 13O and 13U, Singapore | 2025-12-31 | Monetary Authority of Singapore Written reply to Parliament, 5 August 2026 | Administrative count Counts incentive awards the authority itself made. An office that did not apply is not in it. | Yes |
| 1,632 | Multi-family offices, worldwide | 2025-12 | With Intelligence by S&P Global, as reported by InvestmentNews InvestmentNews, 5 June 2026 | Vendor database Firms tracked in the vendor's database as of December 2025, with assets reported above $5.2 trillion; 573 in North America. Criteria for inclusion are the vendor's. | No |
| 333 | Single family offices that answered the survey, 30 countries | 2026 | J.P. Morgan Private Bank 2026 Global Family Office Report | Survey sample Respondents, not a population. Average net worth about $1.65 billion; 59% United States. | No |
| 206 | Single family offices in the Americas that answered the survey | 2026-08-24 | BlackRock, with Preqin 2026 Americas Family Office Survey | Survey sample Surveyed 13 July to 24 August 2026; about $491 billion in investable assets between them. | No |
Each figure links to the page it was read from on 2 November 2026; the quoted sentence is in the data file. “Re-runnable” means a reader could reproduce the figure from records the publisher names. The arithmetic on the Hong Kong row (3,380 less about 680, so about 2,700 at the end of 2023) is ours, not the government’s.
Different definitions, different dates, one filing.
Two cities exceed the region
Only one count traces to a record
A survey's respondents are not a population
The uncounted are not the margin of error
Every count has a client
Counted.
This page adds no figure of its own. A count built from registries, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, with the method written down before the data is opened and a holdout kept, is the next study in the Library. When a published count is revised, its old row stays here, marked.
Asked often
How many family offices are there in the world?
Nobody has published a count built by a method anyone can re-run. The most-quoted figure, 8,030 single family offices, is a consultant's estimate modelled from a survey of 354 offices in late 2023. Two government-published figures for Hong Kong and Singapore alone add to more than 5,380 at the end of 2025, against the same consultant's 2,290 for all of Asia Pacific. The honest answer is a range of definitions, not a number.
Which count is the most reliable?
The one with the narrowest claim. Singapore's figure is an administrative count of tax-incentive awards the authority itself made: exact for what it counts, and silent about any office that did not apply. Every other figure on this page is an estimate, a projection, a vendor's database or a survey's respondents.
Why do the figures contradict each other?
They count different things on different dates by different methods. A single family office has no legal definition most jurisdictions share, so each publisher draws its own line. None of the estimates publishes a method, so the differences cannot be reconciled from the outside.
Has ParetoAlpha counted them?
No. This page grades the counts that exist. A count from registries, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, with the method published before the data is opened, is the next study in the Library. No date is promised for it.
Can I use these figures?
The table and its downloads are published under CC BY 4.0. Each row is another publisher's figure, so cite that publisher and its date; cite this page for the comparison and the grading.
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The table and both downloads are CC BY 4.0. Cite as: ParetoAlpha, “How Many Family Offices Are There? Every Published Count, Graded,” 2 November 2026, paretoalphasystems.com/research/family-office-count-2026. The companion essay: the Library’s notes.