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Gyms in Elk County, KS
How Elk County, KS compares with other counties and the U.S. for gyms: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $682K
- On memberships, classes and admissions · $683 a household
- Spending per listing
- $682K
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 10.0
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 2,458
- −0.9% since 2020
See the gyms around any address in Elk County
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 gym in Elk County. That is 10.0 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on memberships, classes and admissions in Elk County comes to about $682K a year: $683 per household, 31% below the U.S. average. That is about $682K of household spending for each gym on map listings. That spending covers all memberships, classes and admissions, which gyms share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as fitness and recreational sports centers in Elk County: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates put the population change in Elk County from 2020 to 2025 at −0.9%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Elk County compares
The same measures for Kansas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all memberships, classes and admissions by the gyms counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Elk County | Kansas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 10.0 | 7.6 | 7.6 |
| Spending per listing | $682K | $1.2M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment (all fitness and recreational sports centers) | n/a | 3,888 | 3,109 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.0% | +5.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.9% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on memberships, classes and admissions | $683 | $911 | $983 |
| Median household income | $64,609 | $74,275 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 52 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/aAll fitness and recreational sports centers
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 1The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as fitness and recreational sports centers in Elk County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3. These official figures cover all fitness and recreational sports centers, not only gyms.
Population and households in Elk County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 2,458−0.9% since 2020
- Households
- 999
- Median age
- 50.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 644 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4
- Median household income
- $64,609
- Average household income
- $73,099
- Median home value
- $68,500
- Jobs located here
- 656
- Daytime population
- 2,105Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Elk County?
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Top counties in Kansas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Butler County, KS | 87 | 9 | 3.6 | $2.6M | +3.1% | #23 of 1,792 |
| 2Leavenworth County, KS | 81 | 21 | 7.0 | $1.5M | +3.2% | #61 of 1,792 |
| 3Sedgwick County, KS | 67 | 122 | 5.9 | $1.4M | +2.6% | #298 of 1,792 |
| 4Miami County, KS | 67 | 11 | 8.0 | $1.3M | +5.9% | #303 of 1,792 |
| 5Pottawatomie County, KS | 66 | 9 | 9.6 | $1.1M | +6.9% | #337 of 1,792 |
| 6Reno County, KS | 65 | 12 | 4.7 | $1.5M | −0.6% | #359 of 1,792 |
| 7Wyandotte County, KS | 59 | 35 | 5.7 | $1.3M | +1.0% | #566 of 1,792 |
| 8Johnson County, KS | 59 | 261 | 10.5 | $1.3M | +4.2% | #570 of 1,792 |
| 9Franklin County, KS | 57 | 6 | 5.8 | $1.3M | +1.1% | #647 of 1,792 |
| 10Douglas County, KS | 57 | 39 | 7.7 | $1.2M | +1.8% | #655 of 1,792 |
| Elk County, KS | Not scored | 1 | 10.0 | $682K | −0.9% |
Other business types in Elk County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many gyms are in Elk County, KS?
Elk County has 1 gym on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count gyms and fitness centers. No official count is published for fitness and recreational sports centers in Elk County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Elk County, KS spend on memberships, classes and admissions?
About $682K a year, or $683 per household. That is 31% below the U.S. average (an index of 69, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 gym on map listings, it comes to $682K per gym. The spending figure covers all memberships, classes and admissions, not only gyms. It is estimated from the incomes of the 999 households in Elk County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Elk County, KS compare with the U.S. for gyms?
Elk County has 1 gym on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of gyms to household spending.
How fast is Elk County, KS growing?
Population estimates put Elk County at 2,458 people in 2025, down 0.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 999 households. The median household income in Elk County is $64,609 a year, 20% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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