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Big cities with few listed riding stables

110 of the 342 US cities with 100,000 or more residents have one riding stable or none listed with the city's name in its mailing address: 64 with none and 46 with one. That is a count of our listings by address, not a measure of demand. Stables need room: 64% of listed stables have a town under 25,000 people, or a place the Census estimates don't list as a city or town, in their mailing address. A stable just past city limits counts for its own town, so the nearest one may be a short drive away.

342cities of 100,000+
64none listed
46one listed
12%of stables in these cities

Data as of 2026-11-08. How we count · Download: underserved-cities.csv

Stables sit outside big cities

30% of Americans live in an incorporated city of 100,000+ people. Only 12% of listed stables (1,824) have one of those cities in their mailing address. Per person, that is 1.82 stables per 100,000 residents in big cities against 5.47 everywhere else.

Horses need barns, arenas, paddocks and pasture, which is hard to find inside a big city. A riding stable is more likely to sit in a small town or on rural land a short drive out.

Listed stables by mailing-address city size

  • Cities of 100,000+ (1,824)12.2%
  • Cities and towns of 25,000 to 99,999 (3,554)23.8%
  • Towns under 25,000 (7,111)47.6%
  • Places with no Census population of their own (2,463)16.5%

"No Census population of their own": unincorporated communities and postal names that don't match a city or town in the Census estimates.

The largest cities with one listed stable or none

The 60 largest, by population. The CSV has all 110. "Listed under the city" means a stable in this directory whose mailing address names the city.

#CityPopulationListed under the cityStables in the state
1 Chicago, IL 2,721,308 None 474
2 Columbus, OH 933,263 None 632
3 Boston, MA 673,458 None 373
4 Minneapolis, MN 428,579 None 267
5 Henderson, NV 350,039 1 stable 77
6 Honolulu, HI 344,967 1 stable 22
7 Irvine, CA 318,683 None 1,566
8 Newark, NJ 317,303 None 355
9 Santa Ana, CA 316,184 None 1,566
10 Pittsburgh, PA 307,668 1 stable 695
11 St. Paul, MN 307,465 1 stable 267
12 Jersey City, NJ 302,824 None 355
13 North Las Vegas, NV 294,034 None 77
14 Chula Vista, CA 278,546 None 1,566
15 Toledo, OH 265,638 1 stable 632
16 Irving, TX 258,060 None 1,099
17 Hialeah, FL 235,388 1 stable 882
18 Frisco, TX 235,208 None 1,099
19 Norfolk, VA 231,105 None 332
20 Fremont, CA 228,192 1 stable 1,566
21 Worcester, MA 211,286 None 373
22 Yonkers, NY 211,040 None 713
23 Fayetteville, NC 209,496 1 stable 575
24 Grand Prairie, TX 207,331 None 1,099
25 Overland Park, KS 202,893 None 137
26 Columbus, GA 201,830 None 478
27 Grand Rapids, MI 200,117 1 stable 466
28 Birmingham, AL 196,357 None 191
29 Montgomery, AL 195,818 None 191
30 Providence, RI 194,706 1 stable 52
31 Brownsville, TX 191,967 None 1,099
32 Chattanooga, TN 191,496 1 stable 333
33 Tempe, AZ 190,114 None 324
34 Ontario, CA 185,285 1 stable 1,566
35 Newport News, VA 183,056 1 stable 332
36 Cary, NC 182,659 1 stable 575
37 Aurora, IL 180,710 None 474
38 Pembroke Pines, FL 179,326 None 882
39 Garden Grove, CA 172,361 None 1,566
40 Corona, CA 161,540 None 1,566
41 Paterson, NJ 160,463 None 355
42 Alexandria, VA 159,102 None 332
43 Hollywood, FL 159,073 1 stable 882
44 Hayward, CA 158,440 None 1,566
45 Lakewood, CO 156,868 1 stable 401
46 Sunnyvale, CA 156,792 None 1,566
47 Springfield, MA 154,888 None 373
48 Bellevue, WA 154,377 1 stable 484
49 Joliet, IL 151,837 None 474
50 Bridgeport, CT 151,599 None 254
51 Mesquite, TX 150,140 1 stable 1,099
52 Pasadena, TX 149,617 None 1,099
53 Pomona, CA 147,966 1 stable 1,566
54 Thornton, CO 146,689 1 stable 401
55 Miramar, FL 143,242 1 stable 882
56 Jackson, MS 141,449 1 stable 80
57 Coral Springs, FL 140,808 1 stable 882
58 Victorville, CA 140,721 1 stable 1,566
59 Elizabeth, NJ 140,413 None 355
60 Torrance, CA 139,576 None 1,566

36 of these 60 cities have no stable listed under their name. The state count links to every listed stable in that state. Download: underserved-cities.csv

Why a big city can come up short

This list counts stables by the city in their mailing address. Three things make a big city look emptier than it is:

If you know a riding stable we missed, email hello@ridingstables.net.

Big cities with the most stables per person

The other end of the list: cities of 100,000+ with at least two stables listed under their name, by stables per 100,000 residents.

#CityStablesPopulationPer 100k
1 Bend, OR 25 106,926 23.4
2 Davie, FL 20 112,052 17.8
3 Fort Collins, CO 28 170,924 16.4
4 Temecula, CA 18 112,431 16.0
5 Conroe, TX 18 114,581 15.7
6 Murrieta, CA 16 112,539 14.2
7 Fayetteville, AR 14 103,134 13.6
8 Concord, NC 14 112,395 12.5
9 Las Cruces, NM 14 116,998 12.0
10 Suffolk, VA 12 103,105 11.6

States with the most cities on this list

Cities of 100,000+ with one listed stable or none, by state. States with many large cities show up here more often.

How we count

We take every incorporated US city with at least 100,000 residents in the US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates (July 1, 2024), then count the riding stables in this directory whose mailing address names that city. That means incorporated cities and towns, plus Honolulu, which the Census counts as a census-designated place. Townships, New England towns and other census-designated places are left out because their mailing addresses often use other names. Consolidated city-counties use the city part (Nashville, Louisville, Lexington and similar). We match common spellings, such as St. and Saint.

The size breakdown above sorts every listed stable by its mailing-address city: the same 100,000+ cities, then any other city or town the Census estimates cover, by size. Stables count only when they are in this directory, which leaves out tack and feed stores, vets and farriers, horse rescues and sanctuaries with no riding, race tracks, carriage-only tours, show grounds where people watch rather than ride, and private farms with no public service.

"Few listed stables" means few for a city's size. It says nothing about how many people in the city ride or would like to. Data as of 2026-11-08. More on our method on the stats page.

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