# US bank branches showed a net decline of only 400 in 2025 — about 1,400 closures against more than 1,000 openings — the fourth consecutive year with fewer closures than the year before

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20260222-bank-teller-2
Date: 2026-02-22 · Stage: Constraint
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## Scope

United States only — the UK and much of Europe are still closing branches at pace, which is why this record sits alongside the Lloyds closures rather than replacing them. The underlying counts are FDIC and NCUA statistics; the framing is not. The author is president of Bancography, a branch-network planning firm, so the interested party here is arguing that branches matter. Branch counts are also not teller counts: a branch can reopen with half the staff it had.

## Source

- The Financial Brand / Bancography — https://thefinancialbrand.com/news/customer-experience-banking/the-branch-is-dead-is-dead-have-we-reached-national-branch-equilibrium-195842 (secondary source)

## What this means

The branch network stopped shrinking before the teller's job stopped changing, and those are two different facts. The net decline was only 400 in 2025: about 1,400 closures against more than 1,000 openings. The record does not say what the new branches do, and branch counts are not teller counts. If you work in one, that is where your hours are going.

## What it does not show yet

Nothing here counts tellers. A stable branch count is compatible with fewer people per branch, and the article's own numbers cover buildings, not jobs. It is US-only, it is one analyst's reading of the federal data, and the large banks' announced openings mostly have not been built yet — plans, not ribbon cuttings.

## How to verify it yourself

Count the counter positions in your own branch this month and compare with what it opened with; the building surviving tells you nothing until you have that number. Then look at what your branch is measured on. If the target moved from transactions processed to appointments booked and products referred, the job has already been redefined around the part a screen cannot do, and that is the part to get good at.


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