Most family office statistics online are estimates built on other estimates. These numbers are different: they come from our own database of 2,700 active family offices, where every row has been reviewed by a human and every office has a live website, an active LinkedIn page, or both. This is not a census of every family office in the world. It is a verified picture of the offices that maintain a public presence and can actually be found and contacted.
Feel free to cite these numbers with a link to this page. Data as of July 2026.
Where family offices are based
- North America: 1,421 offices (53%), of which 1,353 are in the USA
- Europe: 866 offices (32%)
- South East Asia: 149 (6%)
- Middle East: 110 (4%)
- The rest: East Asia (49), LATAM (50), Oceania (41), Africa (7)
By country, the top ten are the USA (1,353), the UK (184), Germany (142), Switzerland (122), Singapore (72), Canada (68), India (66), Sweden (59), France (54), and the Netherlands (53).
Inside the USA
Four states hold more than half of American family offices in our data: New York (251), California (229), Texas (147), and Florida (129). Illinois (83), Massachusetts (45), Connecticut (35), and Washington (35) follow.
The top family office cities
New York City is the world's family office capital with 238 offices. London follows with 146. Then come Singapore (71), Chicago (65), San Francisco (53), Dallas (52), Los Angeles (45), Miami (41), Paris (40), Dubai (38), Hong Kong (37), and Zurich (30).
Single vs multi family offices
- Single family offices: 73% (1,971 offices)
- Multi family offices: 19% (511)
- Family-run private investment firms: 5% (125)
- Venture funds run as a single family's vehicle: 2% (65)
If you are not sure what separates these, see our guide to single vs multi family offices.
What family offices invest in
Counting each office's primary investment domains (most offices have several):
- Startups: 1,160 offices (43%)
- Private equity: 1,043 (39%)
- Real estate: 763 (28%)
- Venture capital funds: 439 (16%)
- Public equities: 371 (14%)
- Impact investing: 345 (13%)
- Philanthropy: 210 (8%)
- Private credit: 115 (4%)
- Hedge funds: 87 (3%)
- Natural resources: 85 (3%)
- Digital and crypto assets: 55 (2%)
The picture is clear: direct investing dominates. More than four in ten active family offices with a public presence invest in startups directly, and nearly as many do private equity deals. The stereotype of the family office as a quiet stock-and-bonds allocator does not match the offices you can actually find online, which skew toward direct, active investing.
How reachable are they?
Across the database: 95% of offices have at least one named top decision maker identified, 67% publish a contact email on their website, and 46% publish a phone number. Personal, SMTP-verified work emails exist for 1,262 decision makers, concentrated in the USA and other regions where privacy laws permit sharing them.
Methodology
Our team compiles offices from many sources, then reviews every row manually. We include single family offices, multi family offices that actively invest or serve ultra-high-net-worth families, family holding companies, and private investment firms owned by a single family. We exclude listings without a live website or active LinkedIn page. The database is updated continuously; these figures are a July 2026 snapshot. For the full data, see the worldwide database or download a free sample.