More than half of all notaries in Ukraine are concentrated in Kyiv and the country’s four largest regions, according to an Experts Club analysis based on data from the Unified Register of Notaries.
As of the end of August 2026, there were 6,156 notaries in Ukraine. Of these, 3,162, or about 51.4%, were registered only in Kyiv and the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv and Odesa regions.
Kyiv remains the absolute leader, with 1,365 notaries. Thus, the capital accounts for more than 22% of all specialists in the country, meaning that in practice every fifth Ukrainian notary is based there.
There are 460 notaries registered in the Kharkiv region, 457 in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 449 in the Lviv region, and 431 in the Odesa region.
According to Experts Club, this structure reflects the high concentration of demand for notarial services in the country’s largest economic and business centers, where real estate transactions, corporate deals, inheritance cases and other legally significant transactions are concentrated.
At the same time, the highest growth rates over the past year were recorded not in major centers, but in frontline regions with a low comparison base.
In the Luhansk region, the number of notaries increased from 4 to 22, or 5.5 times. In the Kherson region, it rose from 33 to 84, or 2.5 times. In the Donetsk region, the figure increased from 48 to 63, and in the Zaporizhzhia region, from 114 to 147.
One of the reasons for this dynamic was changes to the rules governing the work of private notaries. Since June 2025, specialists whose workplaces are located in territories of possible or active hostilities have been allowed to change the address of their workplace within their region while retaining the notarial district specified in their registration certificate.
Thus, the formal increase in the number of notaries in frontline regions partly reflects not the emergence of new demand, but the adaptation of professional infrastructure to wartime conditions and the relocation of specialists.
KYIV, LAW, NOTARY, REGION, UKRAINE
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