The statistic reports for the self-managed super fund (SMSF) market are published regularly by the ATO on a quarterly basis, to reflect the changes in the industry. This means that it would include all the details of the wounded up/established funds during recent financial years and an estimated amount of the assets held by SMSF’s for each type of asset.
The report includes wide ranges of information, but mainly focuses on:
- SMSF population and asset allocation tables
- Annual SMSF population analysis tables (such as membership sizes, member demographics, flow of funds, etc…)
- SMSF quarterly establishment tables (such as age of new members, and income range of new members, etc…)
As at June 2025, the total number of SMSF’s was 653,062 with a total number of 1,203,127 Members across all SMSF’s.
The table below is an extraction of the ATO’s SMSF quarterly statistical report June 2025.
| Year ended | New entries | Exits | Net new entries | Total number of SMSFs | Total members of SMSFs |
| June 2025 | 41,980 | 3,531 | 38,449 | 653,062 | 1,203,127 |
| June 2024 | 33,032 | 15,146 | 17,886 | 614,613 | 1,133,070 |
| June 2023 | 27,149 | 15,817 | 11,332 | 596,727 | 1,105,568 |
| June 2022 | 28,208 | 16,878 | 11,330 | 585,395 | 1,089,329 |
| June 2021 | 25,873 | 18,679 | 7,194 | 574,065 | 1,074,326 |
| June 2020 | 21,888 | 18,416 | 3,472 | 566,871 | 1,062,215 |
For the latest ATO highlights regarding SMSF statistics, please see the report here.
The next steps in setting up an SMSF
For guidance on how to set up an SMSF, please see our setup page.
For information on how SMSFs are regulated, please see here.