Cash Machine Facts and Figures

• Cash machines supply 70% of all cash to individuals. 96.9% of all withdrawals, and 97.5% of cash withdrawn were from free-to-use cash machines.
• The total value of all withdrawals from cash machines reached £186 billion in 2010 – an average of £5,891 per second.
• The number of cash machine withdrawals decreased by 2.1% in 2010 - to 2.8 billion.
• The average value of a withdrawal from a bank or building society machine was £68, compared with £53 from an independently owned machine.
• There were 663,137 cash machines by the end of 2010, an increase of 224 machines since 2009. 
• 92% of all withdrawals were from cash machines owned by banks and building societies.
• The number of cash machines owned by independent ATM deployers (IADs) amounted to 27,114 at the end of 2010. 
• Overall, there were 38 million regular users of cash machines in 2010. Each of these users withdrew approximately £200 every fortnight in three withdrawals.
• It is expected that we will acquire 79% of our cash from cash machines by 2020.