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Gyms in Giles County, VA
How Giles County, VA 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
- $4M
- On memberships, classes and admissions · $591 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.5
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 16,564
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on memberships, classes and admissions in Giles County comes to about $4M a year: $591 per household, 40% below the U.S. average. That works out to $4M per gym. The spending figure covers all memberships, classes and admissions, not only gyms.
Giles County has 1 gym on map listings as of September 2026. That is 1.5 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for fitness and recreational sports centers in Giles County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Giles County declined 1.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 gym on map listings, Giles County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Giles County compares
The same measures for Virginia 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 | Giles County | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.5 | 6.9 | 7.6 |
| Spending per listing | $4M | $1.4M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment (all fitness and recreational sports centers) | n/a | 2,759 | 3,109 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.6% | +5.8% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on memberships, classes and admissions | $591 | $960 | $983 |
| Median household income | $65,691 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 54 |
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 Giles 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 Giles County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 16,564−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 6,698
- Median age
- 44.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 357 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 46
- Median household income
- $65,691+20.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $81,220
- Median home value
- $151,100
- Jobs located here
- 5,291
- Daytime population
- 14,709Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Powhatan County, VA | 90 | 5 | 4.4 | $2.3M | +7.0% | #11 of 1,792 |
| 2New Kent County, VA | 90 | 6 | 6.5 | $1.6M | +21.2% | #16 of 1,792 |
| 3Spotsylvania County, VA | 89 | 33 | 6.3 | $1.7M | +10.5% | #20 of 1,792 |
| 4Orange County, VA | 86 | 5 | 3.4 | $2.6M | +10.1% | #29 of 1,792 |
| 5Isle of Wight County, VA | 85 | 5 | 3.2 | $2.8M | +6.7% | #32 of 1,792 |
| 6Rockingham County, VA | 83 | 12 | 3.7 | $2.1M | +6.6% | #44 of 1,792 |
| 7Stafford County, VA | 81 | 27 | 5.2 | $2.5M | +8.3% | #54 of 1,792 |
| 8Frederick County, VA | 81 | 16 | 4.5 | $2.1M | +8.8% | #56 of 1,792 |
| 9Louisa County, VA | 80 | 5 | 3.2 | $2.5M | +13.6% | #63 of 1,792 |
| 10Suffolk city, VA | 80 | 18 | 4.7 | $1.8M | +10.4% | #67 of 1,792 |
| Giles County, VA | Not scored | 1 | 1.5 | $4M | −1.3% |
Other business types in Giles 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 Giles County, VA?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 gym in Giles County. The listings count gyms and fitness centers. No official count is published for fitness and recreational sports centers in Giles County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Giles County, VA spend on memberships, classes and admissions?
About $4M a year, or $591 per household. That is 40% below the U.S. average (an index of 60, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 gym on map listings, it comes to $4M 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 6,698 households in Giles County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Giles County, VA compare with the U.S. for gyms?
Giles 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, Giles County would have about 3, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is Giles County, VA growing?
Population estimates put Giles County at 16,564 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 6,698 households. Median household income in Giles County is $65,691, 19% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 20.5%, 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. Giles 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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