As of fall 2026, there are at least 86,625 pickleball courts in the United States, spread across 18,861 facilities. That's our count from the Pickleball Plus court database, every listed US facility with pickleball, added up one address at a time.

The total is the easy part. The more useful questions are the ones you ask before you drive somewhere with a paddle: how many of those courts are free, how many are indoors, how many have a real net, and how your state stacks up. Here's what the count shows.

The short version: pickleball statistics for 2026

Metric	Count
Facilities	18,861
Courts	86,625
Indoor courts	29,511 (34.1%)
Outdoor courts	57,107 (65.9%)
Free courts	39,913 (46.1%)
Median courts per facility	4
Largest facility	East Naples Community Park, Naples, FL (65 courts)

The two indoor and outdoor figures add up to seven fewer than the total, because a handful of listings report a total court count that doesn't split cleanly into indoor and outdoor. The percentages use the 86,625 total.

Nearly half of US pickleball courts are free

The biggest finding: 46.1% of courts, and 48.4% of facilities, cost nothing to play. That's 39,913 courts at 9,121 facilities, mostly parks, schools and rec centers. The rest splits between paid access, private courts and a small slice we haven't classified yet.

Access	Facilities	% of facilities	Courts	% of courts
Free	9,121	48.4%	39,913	46.1%
Membership	3,629	19.2%	17,721	20.5%
Pay-to-play	3,090	16.4%	16,345	18.9%
Private	2,170	11.5%	8,068	9.3%
Under review	496	2.6%	3,407	3.9%
Unknown	355	1.9%	1,171	1.4%

Roughly one in five courts sits behind a membership (20.5%), and nearly as many are pay-to-play, meaning a per-visit or per-court fee (18.9%). Put those together and 39.3% of courts, 34,066 in all, charge you something to get on. Another 9.3% are private: HOA courts, residential complexes and club courts that aren't open to the public.

Paid facilities also run a little bigger. Free facilities average about 4.4 courts each; membership and pay-to-play facilities average about 4.9 and 5.3. That's why the free share is slightly higher by facility (48.4%) than by court (46.1%).

If you just want somewhere to play without a fee, our guide to free pickleball courts is the place to start, and the public pickleball courts page covers the broader set of courts open to anyone, free or not.

How many indoor pickleball courts are there?

About a third. Of the 86,625 courts, 29,511 are indoors (34.1%). 7,365 facilities have at least one indoor court, and 6,328 are indoor-only.

Here's the catch for anyone hoping to play free when it rains: indoor courts live in the paid lanes.

Access	Indoor courts	Share of that access type that's indoor
Free	4,600	11.5%
Membership	9,557	53.9%
Pay-to-play	10,540	64.5%
Private	1,959	24.3%

Membership and pay-to-play facilities hold 20,097 of the 29,511 indoor courts, a little over two-thirds. Free facilities hold 4,600. That makes sense once you think about it: a park department can paint lines on an existing slab, but a building with climate control and lights has to pay for itself somehow.

So if indoor play is what you're after, expect to pay for most of it. The indoor pickleball courts guide covers what to expect, and the free indoor options that do exist tend to be rec center gyms with set open-play hours.

The typical pickleball facility is small

The median US facility has 4 courts. The mean is 4.64, pulled up by a few very large venues.

Courts at facility	Facilities	% of facilities	Courts	% of courts
1–2	5,936	31.5%	10,434	12.0%
3–4	6,451	34.2%	22,936	26.5%
5–8	4,436	23.5%	29,111	33.6%
9–15	1,426	7.6%	15,975	18.4%
16+	402	2.1%	8,169	9.4%
No count reported	210	1.1%	0	0%

Facilities with one to four courts make up about two-thirds of all facilities (65.7%) but hold only 38.5% of the courts. Most of the actual court supply sits at mid-size places with five or more courts.

For you, that means the court closest to your house is probably a two- or four-court park. Great for a quick game with three friends, tight when twelve people show up for open play. The bigger hubs are where the drop-in crowds go.

The largest pickleball facilities in the US

These are the biggest facilities by reported court count. One Virginia Beach venue appears twice in the database under slightly different names, so it's listed once here.

Facility	City	Courts	Indoor	Outdoor	Access
East Naples Community Park	Naples, FL	65	0	65	Pay-to-play
Los Cab Sports Club	Fountain Valley, CA	59	0	59	Membership
Pictona at Holly Hill	Holly Hill, FL	49	0	49	Membership
Kickingbird Pickleball Center	Edmond, OK	44	12	32	Membership
Pickleball VB	Virginia Beach, VA	44	0	44	Membership
The Fort	Fort Lauderdale, FL	43	14	29	Under review
Oasis Pickleball Club	Rockwall, TX	42	0	42	Pay-to-play
PPA Mesa Campus at Arizona Athletic Grounds	Mesa, AZ	41	0	41	Under review

Only 402 facilities in the whole country have 16 or more courts, so any place on this list is a destination.

Pickleball courts by state

Florida, California and Texas lead on volume, and it isn't close: together they hold 20,354 courts, 23.5% of the national total. The full table is below, sorted by courts. "% free" is the share of the state's courts at free facilities; "% indoor" is the share of its courts that are indoors.

State	Facilities	Courts	% free	% indoor
Florida	1,461	7,516	33.6%	18.1%
California	1,432	7,315	43.7%	17.0%
Texas	1,181	5,523	32.6%	40.8%
Ohio	728	3,390	49.7%	40.8%
New York	833	3,367	49.8%	40.2%
Illinois	761	3,351	53.1%	43.1%
Georgia	575	3,024	47.3%	26.6%
North Carolina	686	2,990	43.6%	34.9%
Michigan	611	2,847	54.7%	41.1%
Arizona	435	2,668	24.6%	17.4%
Pennsylvania	635	2,616	51.9%	38.0%
Washington	551	2,297	46.2%	42.9%
Virginia	555	2,288	41.0%	33.7%
Wisconsin	523	2,257	57.4%	34.9%
New Jersey	440	2,119	41.6%	38.4%
Minnesota	456	2,054	60.4%	40.1%
Colorado	410	1,962	46.9%	40.6%
Indiana	424	1,952	51.5%	44.1%
Massachusetts	436	1,945	47.1%	39.0%
Missouri	431	1,826	45.8%	45.2%
Maryland	416	1,816	41.6%	38.2%
Utah	318	1,720	64.4%	27.1%
South Carolina	317	1,557	39.4%	29.0%
Tennessee	351	1,547	53.0%	40.4%
Alabama	273	1,379	68.0%	32.5%
Oregon	301	1,367	44.0%	38.3%
Iowa	286	1,131	55.9%	40.5%
Kentucky	225	1,004	52.9%	38.8%
Connecticut	230	995	51.4%	35.5%
Louisiana	175	826	50.7%	40.2%
Kansas	204	814	49.8%	47.3%
Oklahoma	193	802	41.1%	51.9%
Nevada	147	793	44.6%	24.7%
Idaho	178	784	49.9%	39.9%
Maine	172	626	42.0%	47.6%
Arkansas	135	616	43.7%	40.7%
New Mexico	129	607	53.2%	37.9%
Mississippi	125	565	58.4%	33.1%
Nebraska	147	552	51.3%	50.2%
Hawaii	157	500	58.0%	10.6%
New Hampshire	115	454	48.0%	36.8%
West Virginia	94	419	58.9%	31.7%
Vermont	103	368	54.1%	26.6%
Delaware	77	354	30.5%	29.7%
Montana	83	313	51.8%	41.9%
Rhode Island	65	273	66.3%	31.1%
South Dakota	63	259	48.6%	47.9%
Wyoming	56	238	45.8%	44.5%
North Dakota	60	232	51.3%	46.6%
Alaska	55	211	40.3%	45.0%
District of Columbia	29	131	67.2%	48.1%

A few listings with malformed state fields (19 facilities, 65 courts) are counted in the national total but left out of this table.

What stands out in the state table

The big warm-weather states are the least free. Arizona has the lowest free share of any large state: just 24.6% of its courts are at free facilities. Texas (32.6%) and Florida (33.6%) are next, with about a third each. All three have deep club and resort markets, and Arizona alone has 856 membership courts.

The most-free states are mostly in the middle of the country. Alabama leads among states with 68.0% of courts free, followed by Utah (64.4%), Minnesota (60.4%) and Wisconsin (57.4%). Small Rhode Island (66.3%) and the District of Columbia (67.2%) are up there too. If you live in one of these places, the odds that your nearest court costs nothing are good.

Climate shows up in the indoor numbers. Hawaii is the least indoor state at 10.6%. California (17.0%), Arizona (17.4%) and Florida (18.1%) are all under a fifth. At the other end, Oklahoma (51.9%) and Nebraska (50.2%) are the only states where more than half of courts are indoors, with Kansas, Maine and South Dakota close behind.

Which cities have the most pickleball courts?

By city, Houston leads with 495 courts at 105 facilities, followed by Chicago (379), Charlotte (329), San Diego (308) and Mesa, Arizona (305). Cincinnati, Seattle, Las Vegas, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Columbus, Tucson and Austin all clear 230 courts. Mesa stands out: 305 courts at just 36 facilities works out to more than eight courts per facility, about double the national median. Big-city totals depend on where city limits fall, so treat these as rough rankings rather than precise per-metro counts.

To see the courts in any state or city, browse the pickleball court directory, which is organized by state and country.

How many courts are real dedicated courts?

This is the question a lot of people are really asking when they search for a court count: how many of these are proper pickleball courts, and how many are a tennis court with some tape?

The lines are mostly solid. 96.1% of courts (83,250) have permanent lines. Only 1,992 use tape, 909 use temporary lines and 67 use chalk.

The nets are a different story:

Net setup	Courts	% of courts
Permanent pickleball net	49,174	56.8%
Portable net	24,165	27.9%
Bring your own net	9,132	10.5%
Shared tennis net	3,650	4.2%
Unknown	504	0.6%

Only about 57% of US courts have a permanent pickleball net. The other 36,947 rely on portable nets, nets players bring themselves, or a lowered tennis net. Many of those are dual-lined tennis courts, where pickleball lines are painted alongside the tennis lines. If that's what your local park has, our guide to playing pickleball on a tennis court covers the layout, net height and what to pack.

So the honest answer is about 49,000 courts with a permanent pickleball net, plus another 37,000 or so playable courts where the net setup depends on who shows up first. If a listing near you still says "portable" and the park has since put in a permanent net, you can edit it in Pickleball Plus. If you're planning a build, the court construction guide covers dimensions and surfaces.

How we counted

This count covers facilities listed in the Pickleball Plus court database as of fall 2026. The database aggregates public court directories, operator websites and community submissions, deduplicated by location.

Facility: one address with one or more pickleball courts.
Court: the facility's reported court count. Dual-lined tennis courts count as pickleball courts when the listing reports them.
Excluded: deleted and hidden listings, and listings without pickleball. 210 facilities have no reported court count and contribute zero courts, so 86,625 is a floor, not a ceiling.
Free: no fee to play.
Membership: a paid membership is required.
Pay-to-play: a per-visit or per-court fee.
Private: not open to the public (HOA, residential, club-member-only).
Under review or unknown: about 4.5% of facilities (851) are still unclassified or under review.

How does this compare with other public estimates? USA Pickleball's places-to-play directory had about 44,000 courts on record in 2023, according to Axios, and other public directories put the figure near 70,000. Our higher number reflects counting every court at a facility, including pay-to-play and private courts, as of a 2026 snapshot. Different directories count differently, and none of them is a perfect census.

One more note: our 86,625 is a count of courts that exist. It is not the same thing as estimates of how many courts the country needs, which you'll also see quoted.

Find a court near you

Pickleball Plus has a court finder that lets you filter by free, indoor, lighted and public courts, with reviews, events and a chat for each court. Anyone can add a court or fix a listing in the app, which is how this count keeps growing. Download Pickleball Plus and check what's near you.

FAQ

How many pickleball courts are in the US?

At least 86,625 courts at 18,861 facilities, as of fall 2026, by our count of the Pickleball Plus court database. It's a floor, since 210 facilities have no reported court count.

How many pickleball courts are free?

39,913 courts, or 46.1% of the total, are at free facilities. By facility, it's 9,121, or 48.4%. Most are at parks, schools and rec centers.

How many indoor pickleball courts are there?

29,511 courts, about 34.1% of the total. Most of them are at membership or pay-to-play facilities (20,097 courts); only 4,600 indoor courts are at free facilities.

Which state has the most pickleball courts?

Florida, with 7,516 courts at 1,461 facilities. California is a close second at 7,315, and Texas is third at 5,523.

How many pickleball courts are there per facility?

The median facility has 4 courts, and the average is 4.64. About two-thirds of facilities have four courts or fewer, and only 402 have 16 or more.

Is pickleball still growing?

Our count is a 2026 snapshot, not a time series, so it can't measure growth by itself. Comparing it with older counts from other sources is tempting, but different directories count courts differently. The state table above is the baseline, and we'll re-run the count to see how it changes.

How many pickleball courts have permanent nets?

49,174 courts, about 57%, have permanent pickleball nets. Another 24,165 use portable nets, 9,132 are bring-your-own, and 3,650 share a tennis net.