1,557

COURTS. 386 CLUBS. 38 STATES + PR.

and it is still a floor

COUNTED, NOT QUOTED.

Why this exists.

Nobody could tell me how many padel courts there are in the United States. The published figures disagree with each other by more than ten times over, and some of them disagree with themselves — one market report carries two different court totals inside the same document.

“NOBODY WAS COUNTING.
THEY WERE QUOTING.”

So I counted them myself.

What the count shows.

386 clubs. 1,557 courts. 38 states and Puerto Rico.

The typical American padel club has four courts, and 74% have four or fewer. Nobody has scale — the largest operator in the country runs six locations, and nearly eight in ten facilities belong to no group at all.

And the map most people carry is wrong. Miami-Dade County alone holds 17.8% of every padel court in America. El Paso ranks eighth in the country by court count. Fourteen states have exactly one club in them. Half the courts in the United States sit in Florida or Texas, and more than two-thirds of them are outdoors — which is fine in Florida and Texas and a different business everywhere else. A club selling twelve months of bookings is not the same company as a club selling eight.

There is no American padel market. There are a few dozen local ones, and they don’t touch.

How it was counted.

Open courts only. Nothing announced, nothing under construction, no event installations, no manufacturers’ demo courts, no pop-ups counted as permanent supply. About a dozen venues came out of earlier drafts on those grounds — two of them turned out to be court manufacturers renting out the demo court at their own factory.

Every club was checked against the strongest evidence available.

THE MAP

Every open club, one dot, sized by courts. Inked states hold supply; pencil states hold none. Hover, tab, or click — clicking a dot filters this page to its city.
Open courts only, counted 3 August 2026. Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan.

386 CLUBS · 1,557 COURTS · 38 STATES + PR

WHERE THE COURTS ARE

EVERY CLUB IN THE COUNT

The full file, in scope. Click a column head to sort. This table carries every value on the page — nothing here requires hover.
Fourteen clubs publish no court count; they are in the club total, not the court total.

WHERE THIS IS SOFT

Fourteen clubs don’t publish a court count anywhere. They are in the facility total; their courts are not in the court total. That alone puts the real number above this one.

Indoor versus outdoor is the softest field in here. Thirty-one clubs don’t say which they are, and another twenty-one run both without publishing the split. A handful are covered outdoor courts, counted here as outdoor. So “two-thirds outdoors” is the right shape and should not be read to a decimal place — and club-level detail past open-air or under a roof, lighting, glass, surface type, is not something this count can give you yet.

Clubs are missing. Every check I ran tests whether what’s in the file is correct. None of them can test whether something is absent. Private and residential courts are structurally invisible.

The error is not symmetric. Overcounts get found and removed. Missing clubs only ever push the number up. So this is a floor, not an estimate — the lowest number I can defend, and the real one is higher.