YMCA
U.S. · 2,350 locations

The YMCA's 2,350 locations sit in a density range comparable to Planet Fitness (~2,400) but serve a fundamentally different demographic — the Y skews toward families, seniors, and subsidy-eligible members, while commercial gyms index on individual adult memberships. Overlaying this dataset against your existing or target locations reveals where the Y is a true competitor vs. where it's actually an indicator of high community-health demand that could support a complementary gym. LocationLists can run a custom overlap analysis between this dataset and any commercial fitness brand in our catalog.

The dataset includes the individual branch name and URL for each of the 2,350 locations, and many branch URLs share a common association domain (e.g., ymcabham.org for the Birmingham association), which lets you cluster branches by parent association. Associations like YMCA of Greater New York, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, and YMCA of San Diego County each operate 15–30+ branches and represent your highest-leverage sales targets. If you need a pre-built association-level rollup with estimated branch counts, that's a custom enrichment we can provide.

Each YMCA association is an independent 501(c)(3) with its own board, budget, and procurement authority, meaning there's no single corporate buyer — a field rep must sell association by association. This dataset is the starting layer for that effort: it maps the full universe of 2,350 locations so you can segment by metro, state, or association cluster before building a call list. Corporate chains have centralized purchasing, but the Y's decentralization actually means less price competition and more relationship-driven selling.

Absolutely — every record includes latitude and longitude coordinates, so you can run a radius analysis against your hospital or clinic addresses to find the nearest YMCA branches. Programs like the CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program are already delivered through hundreds of YMCAs, so proximity mapping is a proven first step. LocationLists also offers custom proximity reports if you'd rather receive a pre-built list of Y branches within a set radius of each of your facilities.

The 2,350 records include every location type Y-USA publishes in its national locator: 2,350 branches (wellness centers, community branches and program sites) and 182 YMCA camps, and the locationType column says which is which, so a camps-only or branches-only cut is a one-column filter. Every record also carries the ymca.org location page URL, which resolves to the local association's own site for hours, programs and membership pricing.

YMCA is the largest nonprofit childcare provider in the U.S., but not every branch offers childcare — typically the larger, suburban full-service branches do. By mapping these 2,350 locations against your target expansion metros and filtering for suburban zip codes with high household-with-children density (via Census data), you can identify where Y-based childcare is most likely entrenched. LocationLists can also build a white-space report showing metros where YMCA density is low relative to population, signaling less nonprofit competition for your model.