PadelGrids Data Study
The State of US Padel 2026
Padel's US footprint is expanding, and the directory makes that growth measurable. The public directory shows 344 padel locations across 35 states: 258 named clubs plus 86 mapped court features whose public operator is not yet confirmed.
How many padel locations are in the directory?
As of 2026-08-25, PadelGrids publishes 344 padel locations in 35 states. The inventory deliberately separates 258 named clubs from 86 OpenStreetMap court features whose operating business has not yet been confirmed. Among the named clubs, 237 are marked open and 21 are announced or under construction.
This is a directory count, not an estimate of every playable court in the country. It favors transparency over a larger headline: named businesses and unnamed map features are reported separately, and missing facts remain missing.
Padel growth: 21 clubs in the pipeline
The headline growth signal is the pipeline. 21 clubs are announced or under construction, equal to 6.1% of the current public directory footprint. This percentage uses published directory locations as the denominator and should not be read as an industry-wide construction forecast.
The state table below counts only named locations currently labeled announced or under construction.
| State | Clubs announced or under construction |
|---|---|
| Florida | 4 |
| Texas | 4 |
| Arizona | 2 |
| North Carolina | 2 |
| California | 1 |
| New York | 1 |
Where padel is concentrated
Padel in America is a coastal and Sun Belt story. Florida, California, Texas alone account for 48% of every public location in this directory. Florida leads by a wide margin, California is second, and Texas is third. Warm climates that allow year-round outdoor play, dense affluent metros, and proximity to Latin American and European padel culture all line up in those three states.
At the other end, 7 states have exactly one published padel location in this snapshot. A mapped court may not have a confirmed operator, so the state and city guides preserve that distinction.
| State | Locations | Share of directory |
|---|---|---|
| Florida | 67 | 19.5% |
| California | 54 | 15.7% |
| Texas | 43 | 12.5% |
| New York | 25 | 7.3% |
| Arizona | 11 | 3.2% |
| New Jersey | 10 | 2.9% |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | 2.9% |
| Illinois | 9 | 2.6% |
| Georgia | 9 | 2.6% |
| South Carolina | 9 | 2.6% |
| Colorado | 8 | 2.3% |
| Ohio | 7 | 2.0% |
| Massachusetts | 6 | 1.7% |
| North Carolina | 6 | 1.7% |
| Virginia | 6 | 1.7% |
Top 15 states shown. Full per-state counts are on each state page.
Padel by region
Grouping every published location with a known state by census-style region shows the same concentration at a higher altitude. South leads with 159 directory locations. These totals combine named clubs and separately labeled map features.
| Region | Locations |
|---|---|
| South | 159 |
| West | 82 |
| Northeast | 64 |
| Midwest | 24 |
Because the snapshot changes as courts are identified, verified, opened, or closed, regional rankings should be compared using the publication date shown on this report.
What a typical US padel club looks like
For the clubs we have fully verified against their own websites, we can describe the typical venue. Among the 32 verified clubs that publish a court count, the median club has 3 courts, with the range running from 1 to 15. Those clubs add up to 137 courts in the verified sample alone. Most American padel clubs are small, boutique operations rather than the twenty-court megacenters seen in Spain.
Of the 28 verified clubs where we could confirm the setting, 39% are indoor. Outdoor still leads, which fits the warm-weather geography, but indoor builds are rising fast in colder markets that want year-round play. 57% of verified clubs offer coaching or clinics, a sign the sport is investing in bringing new players in rather than only serving people who already know how to play.
The median describes only verified clubs that publish a court count. It should not be generalized to the full directory because most listings do not yet have a trustworthy structured count.
What this means if you want to play
Use state pages to move from statewide counts to city-level options, then compare booking links, court setting, coaching, and verification status. Always confirm hours, price, and opening status with the linked club source before making a trip.
Methodology
This study aggregates the PadelGrids directory as of 2026-08-25. Club locations are sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors, individual club websites, and public listings, then deduplicated. The 344 published total consists of 258 named clubs and 86 OpenStreetMap court features without a confirmed public club name. Per-state counts cover both groups; operating status is reported only for named clubs. Court count, indoor versus outdoor, and coaching figures are reported only on the subset of 47 clubs we independently verified against each club's own website, and the sample size is stated wherever those figures appear. We do not estimate or fill missing values. Medians are computed only from clubs that publish the relevant figure.
Download the directory data
The export includes named venues and separately labeled mapped court features, confidence level, source URL, operating status, coordinates, and every supported playing detail. Blank fields mean “not confirmed,” not “no.” PadelGrids analysis is available under CC BY 4.0; OpenStreetMap-derived records remain subject to the ODbL. Read the dataset notes and licensing before reuse.