How Many Pool Halls in the US?

Fast Lenny

Fast Lenny

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I was curious how many there are? I am not talking about a bar with a single table, I would say 2 or more tables minimum to be called a pool hall. Anyone have a number? I would guess around 5000 in the US but I could be way off since plenty of bars have 2 or more tables.
 
The last compiled database of Pool Rooms that I saw showed 3152 but that changes as they close and new ones open.

I've been a list broker for over 20 years and it was always considered a reliable and accurate list.

There are also clubs and bars that have pool tables that aren't counted in that list.
 
I wonder if you can go to maps.google.com and search for "pool halls in Ohio" or something like that? You're gonna get some wrong results obviously, and a bunch of bars, but it might at least get a ballpark figure.
 
Yep, food for thought !

Fast Lenny said:
I was curious how many there are? I am not talking about a bar with a single table, I would say 2 or more tables minimum to be called a pool hall. Anyone have a number? I would guess around 5000 in the US but I could be way off since plenty of bars have 2 or more tables.
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I would say 2 tables in a bar is a pool area.
Imo a pool hall is a place with the majority of the floor space be used for pool tables.
So a 1 room business is a pool hall with only 1 table taking up more than 50% of the area.

Could be hard to get a number on this unless you figure something like a minimum of tables, be it 5,6,7 or 8.

:cool: Thanx for the thought food.
 
Fast Lenny said:
I would guess around 5000 in the US but I could be way off since plenty of bars have 2 or more tables.
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If two or more tables in bars count, then I can say with no uncertainty that there are hundreds in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area alone.

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I'm gonna guess that 5000 would be high. That's saying that there are 100 pool halls per state on average.

But if you include every bar that has 2 or more tables than yes I would say that is very likely.
 
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