Number of U.S.

and Global
Coworking Spaces and Members
2017 – 2022
(DECEMBER, 2017 FORECAST)

D ATA P R O V I D E D B Y
Number of Coworking Spaces – 2017
BY REGION & T YPE

Region & Type of Spaces Number of Spaces 2017

Office Coworking
United States 3,205
Asia/Pacific & India 3,975
Europe 3,070
Rest of the World* 1,540
Office Coworking Total 11,790
Global Maker Spaces 1,941
Other** 680
TOTAL 14,411

* Rest of World = Africa, South and Central America (including Mexico), Russia, Eastern Europe and Canada
** Non-office, non- makerspace shared spaces such as shared kitchens, biolabs, etc.; global

D ATA S O U R C E :
Global Number of Coworking Spaces
2017 FORECA ST

35,000
30,432
30,000 27,919
24,306
25,000
21,306
20,000 17,725
14,411
15,000
11,100
10,000 7,805

5,000 14 436
Spaces Spaces
0
2007 2010 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Intentional
Data Gap

D ATA S O U R C E :
Number of Global Coworking Members
2017 FORECA ST

6,000,000
5.1m
5,000,000
4.5m

4,000,000 3.8m

3.1m
3,000,000
2.3m
2,000,000 1.74m

976,000
1,000,000
522,600

0
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

D ATA S O U R C E :
Number U.S. Coworking Spaces
2017 FORECA ST (includes office coworking spaces, Makerspaces and other shared, collaborative spaces)

7,000
6,219
5,943
6,000
5,476
5,026
5,000 4,528
4,043
4,000 3,485
2,876
3,000

2,000

1,000
14 283
Spaces
0
2007 2010 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

D ATA S O U R C E :
Number of U.S. Coworking Members
2017 FORECA ST

1,200,000
1,076,000
993,000
1,000,000
865,000
800,000 754,000
638,000
600,000 542,000

418,000
400,000 331,000

200,000

0
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

D ATA S O U R C E :
Methodology
The 2017 data on the number of spaces is an estimate developed by a country by country analysis using Internet and literature
searches. A number of sources were used to facilitate this process, including:

COWORKING DIREC TORIE S : RE S E ARCH REPORT S :

• Sharedesk: lists 4400 sites • CBRE Americas 2017 Report
• Coworker.com: lists over 5500 spaces worldwide. • CBRE Asia Pacific 2017 Report
• Nomad List: covers spaces in a variety of countries outside of the • CBRE EMEA 2017 Report
U.S. and Europe • NAIOP Report on Office Space
• Liquidspace: Lists over 4000 coworking spaces. • Kwork Report
• JLL Workspace Reworked report
ME DIA RE POR T S, especially for countries outside the U.S. and Europe. • Savills The Future for Services Offices in Europe

The average number of members per space is calculated using a combination Deskmag’s annual coworking survey and
Emergent Research’s coworking surveys.

Emergent Research’s definition of a coworking space is used to decide if a space qualifies.

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