More than half of all notaries of Ukraine, according to the Unified Register of Notaries, are concentrated in Kyiv and the four largest regions of the country.
As of the end of August 2026, there were 6,156 notaries in Ukraine. Of them, 3,162, or about 51.4%, were registered only in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv and Odesa regions.
Kyiv remains the absolute leader - 1,365 notaries. Thus, the capital accounts for more than 22% of all specialists in the country, that is, in fact, every fifth Ukrainian notary.
There are 460 registered notaries in the Kharkiv region, 457 in Dnipropetrovsk, 449 in Lviv, and 431 in Odesa.
According to the Experts Club assessment, this structure reflects the high concentration of notary demand in the largest economic and business centers of the country, where real estate transactions, corporate agreements, inheritance cases and other legally significant transactions are concentrated.
At the same time, the highest rates of growth over the past year were recorded not in large centers, but in front-line regions with a low base of comparison.
In Luhansk region, the number of notaries increased from 4 to 22, i.e. 5.5 times. In the Kherson region - from 33 to 84, or 2.5 times. In Donetsk region, the indicator increased from 48 to 63, and in Zaporizhzhya region - from 114 to 147.
One of the reasons for such dynamics was changes in the rules of work of private notaries. From June 2025, specialists whose workplaces are located in the territories of possible or active hostilities are allowed to change the workplace address within their region, keeping the notary district indicated in the registration certificate.
Thus, the formal increase in the number of notaries in the frontline regions partly reflects not the emergence of new demand, but the adaptation of the professional infrastructure to the conditions of war and the relocation of specialists.
