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America's Most Underserved Kickboxing Cities (2026)

The flip side of the kickboxing capitals: big American cities where you can barely find a gym inside the city limits. These are the 30 most populous US cities (100,000+ residents) with zero or one kickboxing gym in our 5,673-gym national directory — 4.6 million people between them. If you've ever thought about opening a kickboxing gym, this is the market-gap list. Updated 2026-07-19.

The list

Top of the table: St. Paul, Minnesota — 307,465 people, no kickboxing gym. The biggest city with none at all is St. Paul, Minnesota (307,465 residents — 11 of the 30 cities are at zero). Many of these are big suburbs in major metros, which is exactly the point: the anchor city's gyms are a drive away, and the local walk-in market is unclaimed.

#CityPopulationKickboxing gyms in directory
1 St. Paul, MN 307,465 0
2 Fort Wayne, IN 273,203 0
3 Cape Coral, FL 233,025 1
4 Fremont, CA 228,192 1
5 Akron, OH 189,664 0
6 Lancaster, CA 167,426 1
7 Denton, TX 165,998 0
8 Paterson, NJ 160,463 0
9 Kansas City, KS 156,752 1
10 Springfield, MA 154,888 1
11 Savannah, GA 148,808 1
12 Rockford, IL 147,486 1
13 Thornton, CO 146,689 1
14 Miramar, FL 143,242 0
15 Jackson, MS 141,449 1
16 West Valley City, UT 138,144 1
17 New Haven, CT 137,562 1
18 Sterling Heights, MI 134,342 0
19 Hartford, CT 122,129 0
20 Cambridge, MA 121,186 1
21 Lowell, MA 120,418 1
22 Odessa, TX 119,748 1
23 Goodyear, AZ 118,186 1
24 Menifee, CA 117,041 0
25 Miami Gardens, FL 116,173 0
26 Waterbury, CT 115,908 1
27 Provo, UT 115,479 1
28 Greeley, CO 114,363 1
29 Buckeye, AZ 114,334 1
30 Beaumont, TX 112,893 0

Read it fairly: counts are within city limits. Aurora trains in Denver; Mesa drives to Phoenix. "Underserved" here means no local gym — not that residents have never thrown a punch.

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Suggested attribution: “America's Most Underserved Kickboxing Cities” — KickboxingClasses.net, 2026, linked to https://www.kickboxingclasses.net/kickboxing-stats/underserved/. The tables are CC BY 4.0: chart them, quote them, publish them — just link back. Want a custom cut (by state, metro, or discipline)? Email us.

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Methodology: gym counts from our continuously maintained national directory of 5,673 kickboxing gyms (public business listings, filtered to genuine kickboxing gyms with a kickboxing class on the schedule). City universe = incorporated places and consolidated city-governments with 100,000+ residents, US Census 2024 estimates; census names normalized to everyday names (Nashville-Davidson → Nashville) so no city is falsely flagged. Gyms are matched to cities by the city name on their address. Refreshed with each re-crawl — cities graduate off this list when a gym opens. Browse what nearby markets look like instead: gyms by state, or the full stats hub.