Metro by metro
The leading gym chains in every Texas metro area
Tracked gym chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Crunch Fitness leads in 8 metro areas, TruFit Athletic Clubs in 2 metro areas, and Life Time in 1 metro area. 5 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in Texas as a whole, TruFit Athletic Clubs stands out in 3 metro areas, Life Time in 2 metro areas, and Gold's Gym in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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TruFit Athletic Clubs
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 9.4× · Brownsville-Harlingen, TX over 10× · College Station-Bryan, TX 5.1×
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Life Time
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Dallas, TX 1.4× · Austin, TX 1.7×
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Gold's Gym
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
San Antonio, TX 3.6× · Laredo, TX over 10×
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EōS Fitness
Relative #1 in Houston, TX, 2.4× its share in Texas
Not enough tracked stores: 13 metro areas
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX · Corpus Christi, TX · El Paso, TX · Killeen-Temple, TX · Lubbock, TX
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Crunch Fitness
#1 in 8 metro areas
Dallas, TX · Austin, TX · San Antonio, TX · El Paso, TX · Killeen-Temple, TX · Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX · College Station-Bryan, TX · Corpus Christi, TX
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TruFit Athletic Clubs
#1 in 2 metro areas
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX · Brownsville-Harlingen, TX
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Life Time
#1 in Houston, TX
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Gold's Gym
#1 in Laredo, TX
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Pro Fitness Gym
#1 in Lubbock, TX
Not enough tracked stores: 13 metro areas
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked gym chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Texas compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Texas as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Texas and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Texas is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Texas. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked gym chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Chuze Fitness and Redline Athletics sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Chuze Fitness | ▲2 | +16.3% |
| 2 | Redline Athletics | ▲1 | +6.0% |
| 3 | Life Time | - | +1.8% |
| 4 | Powerhouse Gym | - | -0.4% |
| 5 | House of Gainz | ▼1 | -0.6% |
| 6 | YMCA | - | -2.5% |
| 7 | Absolute Recomp | ▲2 | -6.3% |
| 8 | Retro Fitness | ▲1 | -9.0% |
| 9 | CLUB4 | - | -12.0% |
| 10 | Dynamic Fitness | - | -17.8% |
| 11 | TruFit Athletic Clubs | ▲1 | -19.0% |
| 12 | Anytime Fitness | ▼2 | -20.3% |
| 13 | Get Fit | ▼1 | -21.6% |
| 14 | Cowboys Fit | ▲1 | -22.8% |
| 15 | Gold's Gym | - | -22.9% |
- Crunch Fitness
- YMCA
- Life Time
- EōS Fitness
- Gold's Gym
- TruFit Athletic Clubs
- Absolute Recomp
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,184 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 323 of the 1,184 stores (27%); 620 of the 674 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are gyms, the same share as across the United States.
- Crunch Fitness (54)
- YMCA (26)
- Life Time (27)
- EōS Fitness (16)
- Gold's Gym (43)
- TruFit Athletic Clubs (24)
- Absolute Recomp (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Planet Fitness 147
- 2 Crunch Fitness 54
- 3 24 Hour Fitness 52
- 4 Gold's Gym 43
- 5 Life Time 27
- 6 YMCA 26
- 7 TruFit Athletic Clubs 24
- 8 Anytime Fitness 22
- 9 EōS Fitness 16
- 10 CLUB4 8
- 11 Retro Fitness 6
- 12 Workout Anytime 6
- 13 Amped Fitness 5
- 14 Cowboys Fit 5
- 15 Powerhouse Gym 5
- 16 Redline Athletics 5
- 17 Equinox 4
- 18 Dynamic Fitness 4
- 19 Chuze Fitness 3
- 20 Camp Gladiator 3
- 21 Absolute Recomp 3
- 22 HT FITNESS 3
- 23 Get Fit 3
- 24 House of Gainz 3
- 25 Fitness 1440 3
- 26 UFC GYM 3
- 27 Hidden Gym 2
- 28 The Scarlet Barbell Club 2
- 29 SPENGA 2
- 30 Villa Sport 2
- 31 Texas Health Fitness Center 2
- 32 Species Gym 2
- 33 Jazzercise 2
- 34 Elevate Fitness 2
- 35 Studio 6 Fitness 2
- 36 Cosmic CrossFit 2
- 37 World Champ Training 2
- 38 World Gym 2
- 39 SWEAT 2
- 40 Wild Basin Fitness 2
- 41 PARADIGM Gym 1
- 42 Houston Select SA 1
- 43 Upper Valley Fut 5 1
- 44 Tomball Sports 1
- 45 The Castle Metroflex Gym 1
- 46 Bodyworks 1
- 47 Life Fit Gym 1
- 48 Basecamp Fitness 1
- 49 Jacksonville HS Gym 1
- 50 29 reps fitness 1
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