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Sports Facility Availability Statistics: Taiwan and International Inventories

A data-led look at Taiwan’s public sports venues, facility types, accessibility and amenities, with international inventory examples and scope notes.

November 12, 2026 9 min read sporthold.com Editorial Team

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Sports facility availability statistics: Taiwan’s national public venue inventory

Taiwan’s national survey provides two different measures of availability: the number of public venue locations and the number of individual sports facilities within them. Keeping those counts separate is essential. The survey concerns public venues managed by municipalities and counties, while a facility count can include multiple courts or other sports features situated at a venue. Neither number directly describes how many people can use a facility at a given time.

The report’s survey work continued through October 31, 2024. Its comparison tables label the current survey as 112/2023, so these results should be read as observations from that survey period, not as counts for 2026. Across Taiwan’s 22 cities and counties, the report recorded 1,336 public venues for statistical analysis, compared with 1,263 in the 2019 survey. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, abstract and Table 51

The final total followed record checks. Local governments initially reported 1,353 venues. The survey team removed 17 records described as invalid or as facilities that did not exist, including decommissioned sites without facilities and sites pending decommissioning without facilities. The remaining 1,336 entered the statistical analysis. This is a venue-record processing count; it does not mean that 17 individual courts or other sports facilities were subtracted. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, page 44

Venue categories offer another view of what the inventory includes. Single-function venues formed the largest category, followed by sports parks and parks. Multifunction venues, National Sports Centers, and sports and sports recreation parks made up the remaining categories in the report’s classification.

Venue categoryCountShare of 1,336 venues
Single-function venues58043.41%
Sports parks and parks45734.21%
Multifunction venues21616.17%
National Sports Centers584.34%
Sports and sports recreation parks251.87%

These categories describe venue locations, not the individual sports facilities inside them. The counts and shares are the report’s venue-type totals for the survey labeled 112. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, page 45 and Table 12

The report also classifies venues by event function. It recorded 94 Class A venues in 2023, compared with 65 in 2019; Class A is described as serving competitive and spectator sports. Class B, described as serving training and educational use, numbered 262 in 2023 and 222 in 2019. Class C, described as serving recreational and promotional use, numbered 2,899 in 2023 and 1,910 in 2019. These are functional classifications of venues, not counts of courts, fields or pools. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, English abstract, page 4

Sports facility availability statistics: city and county facility distribution

The venue-location figures show how Taiwan’s public inventory was distributed across local governments in the survey. New Taipei City had the largest reported total, with 197 venues, or 14.75% of the national venue count. Taichung City recorded 175 (13.1%), Taipei City 142 (10.63%), and Taoyuan City 130 (9.73%). Changhua County reported 95 venues, equivalent to 7.11% of the national total. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, page 45, Table 12

The 2023 inventory of individual facilities provides a separate geographic comparison. New Taipei City had 551 individual sports facilities, the largest local-government total reported in that table. Taipei City had 550, Taichung City 334, Taoyuan City 321, and Kaohsiung City 200. Their reported shares of the 3,255 facilities nationwide were 16.93%, 16.90%, 10.26%, 9.86%, and 6.14%, respectively. Source: Table 50, Comparison of Number and Proportion of Public Sports Facilities in This Survey and in 2019

The close counts for New Taipei City and Taipei City illustrate why the unit matters: the venue-location table gives 197 and 142, while the individual-facility table gives 551 and 550. The first records public venue sites; the second counts sports facilities within sites. The values should not be combined into a single ranking or treated as interchangeable measures of access. Sources: Taiwan National Survey, Table 12; Table 50

Sports facility availability statistics: courts, pools and activity types

Taiwan counted 3,255 completed public sports facilities nationwide in its 2023 inventory, compared with 2,197 in 2019. This total covers individual facilities within venues and must be distinguished from the survey’s 1,336 venue locations. The mix spans court sports, pools, fields, skating rinks and other activity types. Source: Table 51, Comparison of Number and Proportion of Public Sports Facilities in This Survey and in 2019

Basketball venues were the most numerous listed activity type, at 837, representing 25.71% of the 3,255 facilities. The table also recorded 236 badminton venues (7.25%), 235 tennis courts (7.22%), and 214 swimming pools (6.57%). The report’s percentages use the 3,255 individual facilities as denominator, rather than the 1,336 venue locations. Source: Table 51

Facility type2023 countShare of 3,255 facilities
Basketball venues83725.71%
Badminton venues2367.25%
Tennis courts2357.22%
Swimming pools2146.57%
Roller-skating and ice-skating rinks1564.79%
Softball fields1354.15%
Multi-function gyms and fitness centers1223.75%
Volleyball venues1053.23%
Table tennis venues1033.16%

The mix includes both familiar team-sport spaces and specialized or multi-use facilities. For example, the table’s combined roller-skating and ice-skating category counts 156 facilities, while multi-function gyms and fitness centers account for 122. These are reported categories; the inventory does not establish how often each facility is open, how many users it can accommodate, or whether it is available at a preferred time. Source: Table 51

One notable comparison in the same table is the increase in multi-function dance classrooms, from 79 in 2019 to 268 in 2023. The published counts show a larger inventory in that category in the later survey year, but by themselves do not explain the reason for the change or tell whether the same sites were counted under identical operating conditions. Source: Table 51

Sports facility availability statistics: accessible features and inclusion

Taiwan’s public-venue survey reports accessibility as the proportion of the 1,336 venues with a listed feature. Accessible toilets were present at 689 venues, a provision rate of 51.57%. Ramps were recorded at 547 venues (40.94%), while accessible parking spaces were recorded at 483 (36.15%). These measures describe feature presence across venues; they do not report the number of spaces, ramp dimensions, route continuity or the usability of each feature. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, pages 63–65, Tables 29–31

Other access features were reported at lower national rates. Accessible motorcycle parking was available at 185 venues (13.85%), accessible lifts at 189 (14.15%), and accessible showers at 195 (14.6%). Each percentage uses the same 1,336-venue denominator. The survey cautions that some amenities depend on venue type and are not expected at every location, so these rates are best read as inventory indicators, not as a universal checklist for every facility. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, page 63 and Tables 29–30

National Sports Centers provide a venue-type example. Across 58 centers, 58 had accessible toilets, and 54 had accessible lifts. The report gives the lift provision rate as 93.1%. It also records accessible ramps at 45 centers, a rate of 77.59%, and accessible showers at 54 centers (93.1%). These center-specific rates use 58 as their denominator, not the 1,336 venues in the national average. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, page 65, Tables 30–31

Sports facility availability statistics: parking, showers and venue amenities

Parking provision varied by type. Flat car parking was reported at 610 of the 1,336 public venues, a rate of 45.66%; flat motorcycle parking appeared at 417 venues, or 31.21%. Mechanical car parking was listed at 3 venues, a 0.22% rate. These figures describe venues with the feature, not the number of parking spaces or vehicle capacity. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, page 53, Table 20

Shower provision was also recorded for the full venue inventory. Men’s showers were present at 326 venues (24.4%), and women’s showers at 314 (23.5%), out of 1,336. National Sports Centers showed a different pattern: all 58 had men’s showers and all 58 had women’s showers, with each feature reported at a 100% provision rate within that category. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, pages 49–50, Table 16

Nursing rooms were recorded at 180 of the 1,336 venues, a national provision rate of 13.47%. For National Sports Centers, the count was 54 of 58, or 93.1%. The contrast describes amenity coverage across venue categories in this survey; it does not indicate how many rooms were available at each site or their opening hours. Source: Taiwan National Survey on Sports Facilities, pages 49–50, Table 16

Sports facility availability statistics: international inventories and measurement scope

International sources use different units and coverage rules, so their totals are useful as examples of inventory design rather than direct league-table comparisons. Statistics Canada’s Open Database of Sports and Recreational Facilities (ODSRF) version 2.0 contains approximately 249,000 records. The release says source data were collected by accessing sources in 2025 and 2026, and the version was released on September 24, 2026. Its classification includes 54 unique feature types. Source: Statistics Canada, The Open Database of Sports and Recreational Facilities

The Canadian database’s version 1 covered about 182,000 features, compared with about 249,000 in version 2.0. Statistics Canada describes the ODSRF as non-exhaustive and warns that source dates vary; it can include recreation features as well as sports facilities, may contain classification or geolocation errors, and may assign only one type to a multi-use location. Its record count therefore does not have the same scope as Taiwan’s count of public venues or completed facilities. Source: Statistics Canada, “Changes from version 1” and release notes

A UK parliamentary answer citing Sport England’s Active Places database reported 56,855 non-pitch-based sports facilities in England as of December 2025. The wording defines a subset of facilities; it should not be read as the total Active Places inventory or compared as if it covered every kind of sports venue. The answer was dated January 9, 2026. Source: Written question 100948, UK Parliament

Denmark’s 2026 sports-facilities table lists counts by facility type and labels the unit as “Number.” It reports 327 athletics facilities, 61 badminton halls, 1,636 fitness centers, 1,798 football fields, and 1,699 large sporting centers of 800 square meters or more. The table was last updated October 6, 2026; its notes say annual extracts are taken on October 1 and discrepancies may occur. Those details matter when interpreting a periodically extracted, continuously updated register. Source: Statistics Denmark, Sports Clubs and Sporting Facilities

Singapore offers a different kind of measure. Sport Singapore’s dataset reports annual attendances and bookings for facilities it manages, rather than the number of facilities available. Usage measures can speak to activity at managed sites, while inventory counts describe recorded locations or features. They answer different questions and should not be combined into one availability total. Source: data.gov.sg, Usage of Sports Facilities Managed by Sport Singapore, Annual

Taken together, these sources show why a sports facility availability statistic needs its unit, geography, date and coverage definition alongside the number. Taiwan distinguishes public venue locations from individual facilities within them; Canada counts a broader, non-exhaustive set of sport and recreation features; England’s cited figure covers non-pitch-based facilities; Denmark presents type-specific counts; and Singapore measures usage. These are distinct views of availability, each bounded by what its underlying inventory or activity dataset records.

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