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Gyms in Allen County, KY
How Allen County, KY compares with other counties and the U.S. for gyms: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $4.3M
- On memberships, classes and admissions · $535 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.3M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 22,536
- +9.5% since 2020
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What this means
At $535 per household (46% below the U.S. average), households in Allen County spend about $4.3M a year on memberships, classes and admissions. That is about $4.3M of household spending for each gym on map listings. The spending figure covers all memberships, classes and admissions, not only gyms.
Allen County has 1 gym on map listings as of September 2026. That is 1.2 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for fitness and recreational sports centers in Allen County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Allen County grew 9.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 gym on map listings, Allen County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Allen County compares
The same measures for Kentucky 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 | Allen County | Kentucky | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.2 | 6.4 | 7.6 |
| Spending per listing | $4.3M | $1M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment (all fitness and recreational sports centers) | n/a | 4,652 | 3,109 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.2% | +5.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +9.5% | +2.2% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on memberships, classes and admissions | $535 | $643 | $983 |
| Median household income | $61,403 | $63,726 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 40 |
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
- 3The 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 Allen 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 Allen County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 22,536+9.5% since 2020
- Households
- 8,035
- Median age
- 40.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 344 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 62
- Median household income
- $61,403+39.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $77,596
- Median home value
- $192,300
- Jobs located here
- 5,263
- Daytime population
- 18,127Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Kentucky
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Oldham County, KY | 76 | 10 | 4.3 | $2.7M | +4.9% | #116 of 1,792 |
| 2Boone County, KY | 74 | 34 | 6.7 | $1.4M | +6.5% | #153 of 1,792 |
| 3Scott County, KY | 71 | 14 | 6.2 | $1.3M | +8.2% | #213 of 1,792 |
| 4Shelby County, KY | 70 | 9 | 4.9 | $1.6M | +6.2% | #231 of 1,792 |
| 5Woodford County, KY | 62 | 7 | 6.5 | $1.2M | +3.7% | #461 of 1,792 |
| 6Meade County, KY | 60 | 5 | 4.5 | $1.6M | +2.2% | #514 of 1,792 |
| 7Pike County, KY | 57 | 6 | 2.5 | $1.9M | −6.4% | #634 of 1,792 |
| 8Bullitt County, KY | 56 | 23 | 7.2 | $1M | +5.0% | #706 of 1,792 |
| 9Kenton County, KY | 54 | 45 | 6.7 | $1.2M | +3.9% | #763 of 1,792 |
| 10Nelson County, KY | 54 | 13 | 6.8 | $955K | +4.8% | #775 of 1,792 |
| Allen County, KY | Not scored | 1 | 1.2 | $4.3M | +9.5% |
Other business types in Allen County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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 Allen County, KY?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 gym in Allen County. The listings count gyms and fitness centers. No official count is published for fitness and recreational sports centers in Allen County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Allen County, KY spend on memberships, classes and admissions?
About $4.3M a year, or $535 per household. That is 46% below the U.S. average (an index of 54, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 gym on map listings, it comes to $4.3M per gym. That spending covers all memberships, classes and admissions, which gyms share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,035 households in Allen County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Allen County, KY compare with the U.S. for gyms?
Allen County has 1 gym on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of gyms to household spending, Allen County would have about 3, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Allen County, KY growing?
Population estimates put Allen County at 22,536 people in 2025, up 9.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 8,035 households. Median household income in Allen County is $61,403, 24% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 39.4%, before inflation.
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. Allen County has no market score for gyms: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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