Boulder, Colorado – CBJ today released its Climbing Gym Market Report and Dashboard, the climbing industry’s first publicly available, comprehensive and interactive U.S. climbing gym market analysis toolset. The tools are designed to assist climbing gym developers with evaluating existing and new climbing gym markets in the U.S. for climbing gym development, providing developers with insights into key market variables, climbing gym and wall density, relative new climbing gym opportunity, and much more.
“Entrepreneurs looking to build new climbing facilities have always been limited in their market analysis toolset,” said Scott Rennak, Publisher and Owner of CBJ. “For years, this level of analysis was only available to the largest businesses who could invest in tools like these ones. We’re very proud to launch this dashboard and report into the world and bring these insights to operators and businesses both big and small, empowering their decision making.”
The data integrated into the report and dashboard was derived from both publicly available data sources of the U.S. Census Bureau and CDC as well as CBJ’s proprietary, industry-best Gym Map dataset. Previously, private market analysis efforts often relied on CBJ’s dataset but were typically not publicly available, limited to specific locations, not interactive, or were not able to factor in facility size (since CBJ did not include facility size figures in the datasets it made available). After many years of collecting facility size data—square footage of climbing wall surface—CBJ’s new analysis tools offer a deeper understanding of U.S. climbing gym markets, supplementing prior data-driven tools in the industry with additional research and a fresh approach.
CBJ’s 27-page Climbing Gym Market Report walks through a high-level analysis of existing and new climbing gym markets in the U.S. It also includes lists of the Top 75 markets broken down by climbing gym and wall density and relative new climbing opportunity scores. The Climbing Gym Market Dashboard offers robust filtering and sorting options for users to conduct an interactive analysis—in a secure, private viewing environment—based on the variables and conditions that are important to them.
The dashboard is designed to help answer these questions:
- How do markets compare across key social, economic, housing, demographic and health variables (population, income, etc.)?
- What differentiates markets that do have commercial climbing gyms from markets that don’t have commercial climbing gyms?
- Where is there a higher and lower density of commercial climbing gyms and commercial climbing gym wall surface?
- Which markets might we expect to have more or less commercial climbing gyms right now than they do?
- When choosing between two markets for a new climbing gym build, how do those two markets compare across key market variables?
This new toolset is a continuation of CBJ’s dedication to analyzing growth in the climbing industry. Since 2013, CBJ has published its annual Gyms & Trends report that delves into the economic context and key statistics around the development of commercial climbing gyms in North America. Business leaders of the climbing industry know they can rely on CBJ for market knowledge.
Learn more about the CBJ Climbing Gym Market Report and Dashboard here.
This was originally published here.
