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LPbacked Research · Data as of October 2026

Family Office Report 2026: Where the World's 7,267 Family Offices Are

How many family offices are there, where are they based, and when were they founded? This report counts every single- and multi-family office in the LPbacked database by country, city and founding decade. The figures update automatically as the database changes, and you can cite them freely.

7,267
family offices tracked
98
countries
42%
in the United States
76%
founded in 2000 or later

Key findings

  1. LPbacked tracks 7,267 family offices in 98 countries: 3,409 single-family offices and 3,858 multi-family offices.
  2. The United States is home to 42% of them (3,026). Switzerland (471) and Germany (412) come next.
  3. New York has more family offices than any other city (497), followed by London (305) and Singapore (234).
  4. Family offices are a young industry: 76% of those with a known founding year were set up in 2000 or later, and the 2010s were the busiest decade on record (1,867 launches).
  5. 58% of family offices are outside the United States, so a US-only list misses most of the market.

Family offices by country

The 20 countries with the most family offices account for 89% of the total. 10 of the top 20 are in Europe, led by Switzerland.

#CountryFamily officesShare
1United States
3,026
41.6%
2Switzerland
471
6.5%
3Germany
412
5.7%
4United Kingdom
402
5.5%
5Canada
258
3.6%
6Singapore
242
3.3%
7France
203
2.8%
8United Arab Emirates
189
2.6%
9Hong Kong
188
2.6%
10Australia
185
2.5%
11India
157
2.2%
12Netherlands
116
1.6%
13Brazil
100
1.4%
14Italy
88
1.2%
15Saudi Arabia
87
1.2%
16Spain
80
1.1%
17Sweden
79
1.1%
18Israel
72
1.0%
19Belgium
70
1.0%
20Luxembourg
64
0.9%

Cities with the most family offices

Family offices cluster in a handful of wealth hubs. The full top-25 ranking, with single and multi-family office splits, is in Cities With the Most Family Offices.

#CityFamily offices
1New York, United States
497
2London, United Kingdom
305
3Singapore, Singapore
234
4Hong Kong, Hong Kong
168
5Paris, France
140
6Zurich, Switzerland
139
7Dubai, United Arab Emirates
138
8Chicago, United States
113
9Geneva, Switzerland
112
10Miami, United States
102
11San Francisco, United States
83
12Toronto, Canada
82
13Dallas, United States
81
14Munich, Germany
75
15Sydney, Australia
74

When family offices were founded

4,704 family offices in the database have a known founding year (65% of the total). Launches accelerated from the 1980s and peaked in the 2010s. The 2020s figure covers only part of a decade, and young offices are the least likely to publish a founding date, so it understates recent activity.

#Decade foundedFamily officesShare
1Before 1950
177
3.8%
21950s
60
1.3%
31960s
50
1.1%
41970s
134
2.8%
51980s
275
5.8%
61990s
453
9.6%
72000s
1,144
24.3%
82010s
1,867
39.7%
92020s
544
11.6%

Methodology

Counts cover every organisation in the LPbacked directory classified as a single-family office or a multi-family office. Multi-family offices include wealth-management firms that describe themselves as family offices. Location is the firm's headquarters; offices with branches are counted once. Founding years come from public sources and firm websites and are missing for some offices, so decade figures use only firms with a known year.

Figures are recomputed from the live database every day, so they can change slightly between visits. The data-as-of date at the top of the page shows the month of the current figures.

More on how the database is built: LPbacked methodology.

How to cite this report

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LPbacked, “Family Office Report 2026: Family Offices by Country, City and Founding Year,” data as of October 2026. https://lpbacked.com/research/family-office-report-2026

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