Fitness and classes · County · Louisiana
Gyms in Lafayette Parish, LA
How Lafayette Parish, LA compares with other counties and the U.S. for gyms: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 31 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,482 of 1,792 scored counties
#13 of 41 scored counties in Louisiana
- Listings
- 105
- 28 chain locations (27%)
- Official establishments
- 43
- All fitness and recreational sports centers · +30.3% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $70.6M
- On memberships, classes and admissions · $700 a household
- Spending per listing
- $672K
- 48% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 10.4
- 37% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 257,949
- +6.5% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for gyms in Lafayette Parish is 31 (lower middle), #1,482 of 1,792 scored counties and #13 of 41 scored counties in Louisiana. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on memberships, classes and admissions in Lafayette Parish comes to about $70.6M a year: $700 per household, 29% below the U.S. average. That works out to $672K per gym, 48% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. The spending figure covers all memberships, classes and admissions, not only gyms.
Lafayette Parish has 105 gyms on map listings as of September 2026. 28 of them (27%) are chain locations, against 28% across the U.S. That is 10.4 per 10,000 households, 37% above the U.S. rate of 7.6.
Official counts show 43 businesses with payroll classed as fitness and recreational sports centers in Lafayette Parish in 2023, up 30.3% from 2019. That is one for every 2,347 households, against one for every 3,109 across the U.S. That count covers all fitness and recreational sports centers (yoga, Pilates and fitness studios included), not only gyms. Since fiscal 2022, 4 SBA-backed loans worth $1M have gone to businesses classed as fitness and recreational sports centers in Lafayette Parish. Population estimates put the population change in Lafayette Parish from 2020 to 2025 at +6.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Lafayette Parish compares
The same measures for Louisiana 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 | Lafayette Parish | Louisiana | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 10.4 | 8.2 | 7.6 |
| Spending per listing | $672K | $788K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment (all fitness and recreational sports centers) | 2,347 | 3,546 | 3,109 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +30.3% | +3.9% | +5.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +6.5% | −0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on memberships, classes and admissions | $700 | $646 | $983 |
| Median household income | $67,451 | $60,756 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 31 | 20 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 33 → 43All fitness and recreational sports centers · +30.3% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 601
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $9.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10528 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 54The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 4
- Amount
- $1M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as fitness and recreational sports centers in Lafayette Parish, 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 Lafayette Parish
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 257,949+6.5% since 2020
- Households
- 100,903
- Median age
- 38.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.6
- Land area
- 269 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 922
- Median household income
- $67,451+18.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $97,745
- Median home value
- $242,900
- Jobs located here
- 135,780
- Daytime population
- 279,185Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Louisiana
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ascension Parish, LA | 57 | 41 | 8.6 | $1.1M | +6.4% | #667 of 1,792 |
| 2Livingston Parish, LA | 55 | 38 | 7.1 | $990K | +8.5% | #744 of 1,792 |
| 3West Baton Rouge Parish, LA | 50 | 8 | 7.3 | $1M | +5.5% | #929 of 1,792 |
| 4Bossier Parish, LA | 46 | 36 | 7.1 | $956K | +2.5% | #1,066 of 1,792 |
| 5Beauregard Parish, LA | 45 | 7 | 5.1 | $1.3M | +0.2% | #1,086 of 1,792 |
| 6St. Charles Parish, LA | 43 | 12 | 6.4 | $1.2M | −3.7% | #1,154 of 1,792 |
| 7St. Tammany Parish, LA | 42 | 101 | 9.6 | $856K | +5.3% | #1,202 of 1,792 |
| 8Tangipahoa Parish, LA | 42 | 36 | 6.9 | $843K | +5.8% | #1,203 of 1,792 |
| 9Iberia Parish, LA | 36 | 14 | 5.2 | $1.1M | −4.6% | #1,344 of 1,792 |
| 10De Soto Parish, LA | 33 | 6 | 5.7 | $966K | +2.0% | #1,420 of 1,792 |
| 13Lafayette Parish, LA | 31 | 105 | 10.4 | $672K | +6.5% | #1,482 of 1,792 |
Other business types in Lafayette Parish
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Funeral services
Questions
How many gyms are in Lafayette Parish, LA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 105 gyms in Lafayette Parish. 28 of them (27%) are chain locations. The listings count gyms and fitness centers. Official counts show 43 businesses with payroll classed as fitness and recreational sports centers in 2023, up 30.3% from 2019. The official count takes in all fitness and recreational sports centers, not only gyms: yoga, Pilates and fitness studios are counted too.
How much do households in Lafayette Parish, LA spend on memberships, classes and admissions?
About $70.6M a year, or $700 per household. That is 29% below the U.S. average (an index of 71, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 105 gyms on map listings, it comes to $672K 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 100,903 households in Lafayette Parish and national spending patterns by income.
How does Lafayette Parish, LA compare with the U.S. for gyms?
Lafayette Parish has 10.4 gyms per 10,000 households, 37% above the U.S. rate of 7.6. Spending per gym is $672K, 48% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of gyms to household spending, Lafayette Parish would have about 54, against 105 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,347 households, against one for every 3,109 across the U.S. The official count rose 30.3% from 2019 to 2023, against +5.8% for the U.S.
How fast is Lafayette Parish, LA growing?
Population estimates put Lafayette Parish at 257,949 people in 2025, up 6.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 100,903 households. Median household income in Lafayette Parish is $67,451, 16% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 18.3%, 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. Lafayette Parish scores 31 for gyms (lower middle), #1,482 of 1,792 scored counties.
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