Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 730 stores from 293 gym chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. NYSC grew fastest over the last year, ahead of 24 Hour Fitness and YMCA.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
293
Tracked stores
730
Consumer panel
130M+

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. NYSC and 24 Hour Fitness sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 N NYSC ▲1 +9.5%
2 2 24 Hour Fitness logo 24 Hour Fitness - +4.9%
3 Y YMCA logo YMCA - +1.5%
4 L Life Time logo Life Time - -1.0%
5 E Equinox logo Equinox - -1.4%
6 R Retro Fitness logo Retro Fitness - -8.8%
7 F Freehold - -17.3%
8 F Fitness 19 logo Fitness 19 - -19.5%
9 C Club Metro USA - -40.0%
10 P Planet Fitness logo Planet Fitness - -46.5%
11 G Gold's Gym logo Gold's Gym ▼1 -50.8%
  • Equinox
  • Crunch Fitness
  • YMCA
  • Life Time
  • Chelsea Piers Fitness
  • Retro Fitness
  • Hampton Inn Times Square South Fitness Center
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

730 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Equinox (35)
  • Crunch Fitness (43)
  • YMCA (28)
  • Life Time (19)
  • Chelsea Piers Fitness (2)
  • Retro Fitness (52)
  • Hampton Inn Times Square South Fitness Center (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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