Padel Growth in Texas 2026: 71 Clubs, 333 Courts Mapped
Padel Growth in Texas 2026: 71 Clubs, 333 Courts Mapped
Second only to Florida — and adding courts in five metros at once
Our regional growth series has covered the Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest and the Mountain West, plus a national state-of-the-sport. Texas — the second-biggest padel state in the country — has never had its own entry. This closes the set.
Every number below comes from our own club database as of September 16, 2026. We count facilities we have verified ourselves, which is why our totals run higher than the aggregator sites and lower than the press releases.
Texas by the numbers
71 clubs. 333 courts. 24 cities.
That headline mixes two very different things, so here is the split that actually matters:
| Clubs | Courts | |
|---|---|---|
| Open today | 61 | 272 |
| Opening soon | 10 | 61 |
| Total tracked | 71 | 333 |
Nationally we track 401 clubs and 1,564 courts. Texas is roughly 18% of every padel club in the United States and 21% of every court — in a state holding about 9% of the country's population.
Greater Houston is the biggest cluster in the state
Twenty-one clubs across Houston, Katy, Magnolia, Spring and The Woodlands, totalling 87 courts. All twenty-one are open — Houston has no pipeline left, because it already built everything.
The anchor is PELOTA Padel Club in Magnolia, a 13-court venue with 40-foot ceilings that was the first purpose-built padel-only facility in the country and is home to the Houston Volts of the Pro Padel League. Only one open club in the US is bigger, and it is in Miami.
Houston proper is the opposite model: 11 clubs but only 33 courts, an average of three per club — a neighborhood-scale scene of small independents, with Punto Azul at eight courts the outlier. Our Houston guide and Woodlands guide break the metro down club by club.
Austin has Houston's club count and twice the courts
Austin now tracks 11 clubs and 68 courts — the most courts of any Texas city, by a wide margin. Eight are open (51 courts) and three are in build-out.
Austin builds big. Padel39 East Austin runs 12 outdoor courts five minutes from downtown; Austin Padel Center, Padel Club Austin and Legacy Padel & Pickleball each carry nine. Padel39, the Austin-founded operator behind two of those sites, has publicly targeted 12 to 15 Texas clubs by 2028.
Two things set Austin apart. The first is the social-club format: Padel Collective is a 20,800 sq ft North Austin build pairing panoramic courts with cold plunges, a sauna and a cafe, and Slice Padel Austin has a council-approved lease to put six courts on the roof of a downtown convention center garage. The second is college padel — Longhorn Padel is a student-run UT Austin club with no courts of its own, renting time from the commercial venues around it. Full detail in our Austin guide.
Dallas–Fort Worth is the fastest-growing metro right now
DFW is where the curve is steepest. Eleven clubs tracked, only seven open — 21 courts playable today, 40 once the pipeline lands. That is a 90% increase in metro court supply inside roughly twelve months, the largest proportional jump anywhere in Texas.
Ace Padel Dallas and Padel Haus Dallas are both six-court indoor builds, the latter the Padel Haus chain's seventh US location, in the Design District and slated for December. Padel Square adds seven, and Studio Arenna pushes the sport west into North Richland Hills. What exists today is smaller and more suburban: Kraken Padel Club and Net Racquet Club in Farmers Branch, Padel39 Dallas in Carrollton, Preston Playhouse in the city. See the DFW and North Dallas guides.
The border corridor nobody writes about
Here is the finding that surprised us most. The Texas border strip — El Paso, Laredo, Eagle Pass and the Rio Grande Valley — holds 17 clubs and 97 courts. That is more court supply than Greater Houston, in cities that get no coverage in national padel media at all.
El Paso alone has five clubs and 26 courts, led by Padel 9 and the eight-court Padel Paso, a $3.7M build pairing courts with a full-service restaurant. Laredo's Deuces Padel Club runs nine outdoor courts. Down in the Valley, Mission has four clubs and 18 courts, with two apiece in McAllen and Brownsville. Our El Paso guide covers the western end.
San Antonio and the Hill Country
Eight clubs and 35 courts across San Antonio, Bulverde and New Braunfels. The existing venues skew indoor and mid-sized — The King of Padel at six courts, U-Padel Club at five. The one that changes the picture is PDL Sports & Social Club, a three-acre complex near UTSA with 10 padel courts, six pickleball courts and a two-story shipping-container restaurant. Our San Antonio guide has the rest.
What is actually driving it
Mexico. Padel has been mainstream in Mexico for decades, and the Texas border cities inherit that player base directly. It is no coincidence that El Paso, Laredo, Mission, McAllen and Brownsville were building courts while much of the US interior still had none.
The outdoor season. Of the 52 open Texas clubs we have classified by facility type, 29 are outdoor and only 13 are fully indoor. An outdoor court costs a fraction of an indoor one to build and Texas can run it most of the year, which lets operators open at four courts instead of waiting on financing for twelve.
Cheap industrial space. Suburban Texas has the warehouse and greenfield inventory padel needs, at prices that make a 13-court build like PELOTA possible at all. It is why the outer metros — Magnolia, Farmers Branch, Bulverde, Socorro — carry a disproportionate share of the courts.
The ten clubs in the Texas pipeline
We track ten Texas clubs as opening soon, adding 61 known courts: Ace Padel Dallas, Padel Haus Dallas, Padel Square, Studio Arenna North Richland Hills, Slice Padel Austin, Padel Society, Padel Collective, Laredo Padel Club and PDL Sports & Social Club.
That is nine. The tenth is a ten-court project in Socorro, outside El Paso, that we track internally but have not confirmed against a primary source — so we are not naming it as a confirmed opening until we can. Treat every date above the same way: opening estimates in this sport slip routinely, and several of these have already moved once. Our national opening tracker logs the changes.
Texas versus Florida: the two-state race
Florida is still ahead, and not narrowly: 93 clubs and 458 courts, of which 75 clubs and 361 courts are open. Texas sits at 71 and 333, with 61 and 272 open. Between them the two states hold 41% of American padel clubs and half its courts.
But the shape of the growth differs. Florida's is concentrated in one market — Miami-Dade, where our pipeline count alone runs to 45 courts. Texas is adding courts in five separate metros at once, plus a border corridor that operates as its own ecosystem. Florida is deepening. Texas is spreading.
For the current map rather than the numbers, start with our Texas guide or browse every Texas club directly.
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