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You actually care about the number of singular matrices (which is the difference between the number of invertible matrices and the number of unrestricted matrices). This has been studied: see

Author Yonatan R. Katznelson Title: Integral Matrices of Fixed Rank Journal: proceedings of the AMS, 120(3) 1994

ADDITION It would be useful to adjoin my comments to @Gerry's answer:

The OP is NOT asking for enumeration of matrices in $SL(n, \mathbb{Z}),$ but rather for the cardinality of the intersection of $M^n(\mathbb{Z}) \cap GL(n, \mathbb{C}).$ On the other hand, the first asymptotic result for $SL(2, Z)$ I am aware of (using theta functions, with no error term) is given by Morris Newman:

Newman, Morris(1-UCSB) Counting modular matrices with specified Euclidean norm. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 47 (1988), no. 1, 145–149.

I am unaware of the Selberg reference. However, the Newman result was generalized by Duke, Rudnick, Sarnak in Duke, W.(1-RTG); Rudnick, Z.(1-STF); Sarnak, P.(1-STF) Density of integer points on affine homogeneous varieties. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 1, 143–179. (the authors were unaware of Newman's work), with full asymptotics, and in a companion paper, a "softer" result was derived by Eskin and McMullen by ergodic-theoretic methods in the very well-known paper

Eskin, Alex(1-PRIN); McMullen, Curt(1-CA) Mixing, counting, and equidistribution in Lie groups. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 1, 181–209.

The paper of Yonatan Katznelson cited above is a sort of an off-shoot of Duke/Rudnick/Sarnak (Katznelson was a student of Sarnak, and I believe the paper was a part of his thesis).

You actually care about the number of singular matrices (which is the difference between the number of invertible matrices and the number of unrestricted matrices). This has been studied: see

Author Yonatan R. Katznelson Title: Integral Matrices of Fixed Rank Journal: proceedings of the AMS, 120(3) 1994

You actually care about the number of singular matrices (which is the difference between the number of invertible matrices and the number of unrestricted matrices). This has been studied: see

Author Yonatan R. Katznelson Title: Integral Matrices of Fixed Rank Journal: proceedings of the AMS, 120(3) 1994

ADDITION It would be useful to adjoin my comments to @Gerry's answer:

The OP is NOT asking for enumeration of matrices in $SL(n, \mathbb{Z}),$ but rather for the cardinality of the intersection of $M^n(\mathbb{Z}) \cap GL(n, \mathbb{C}).$ On the other hand, the first asymptotic result for $SL(2, Z)$ I am aware of (using theta functions, with no error term) is given by Morris Newman:

Newman, Morris(1-UCSB) Counting modular matrices with specified Euclidean norm. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 47 (1988), no. 1, 145–149.

I am unaware of the Selberg reference. However, the Newman result was generalized by Duke, Rudnick, Sarnak in Duke, W.(1-RTG); Rudnick, Z.(1-STF); Sarnak, P.(1-STF) Density of integer points on affine homogeneous varieties. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 1, 143–179. (the authors were unaware of Newman's work), with full asymptotics, and in a companion paper, a "softer" result was derived by Eskin and McMullen by ergodic-theoretic methods in the very well-known paper

Eskin, Alex(1-PRIN); McMullen, Curt(1-CA) Mixing, counting, and equidistribution in Lie groups. Duke Math. J. 71 (1993), no. 1, 181–209.

The paper of Yonatan Katznelson cited above is a sort of an off-shoot of Duke/Rudnick/Sarnak (Katznelson was a student of Sarnak, and I believe the paper was a part of his thesis).

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You actually care about the number of singular matrices (which is the difference between the number of invertible matrices and the number of unrestricted matrices). This has been studied: see

Author Yonatan R. Katznelson Title: Integral Matrices of Fixed Rank Journal: proceedings of the AMS, 120(3) 1994