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America's Most Underserved Hot Yoga Cities (2026)

The flip side of the hot yoga capitals: big American cities where you can barely find a heated room inside the city limits. These are the 30 most populous US cities (100,000+ residents) with zero or one hot yoga studio in our 3,286-studio national directory — 6.7 million people between them. If you've ever wanted to open a hot yoga studio, this is the market-gap list. Updated 2026-07-17.

The list

Top of the table: Anaheim, California — 344,561 people, a single hot yoga studio. The biggest city with none at all is Newark, New Jersey (317,303 residents — 15 of the 30 cities are at zero). Most of these are big suburbs in major metros, which is exactly the point: the anchor city's studios are a drive away, and the local walk-in market is unclaimed.

#CityPopulationHot yoga studios in directory
1 Anaheim, CA 344,561 1
2 Riverside, CA 323,757 1
3 Newark, NJ 317,303 0
4 Santa Ana, CA 316,184 1
5 St. Paul, MN 307,465 0
6 North Las Vegas, NV 294,034 0
7 Garland, TX 250,431 1
8 Hialeah, FL 235,388 0
9 Norfolk, VA 231,105 1
10 Fremont, CA 228,192 1
11 San Bernardino, CA 224,775 0
12 Fontana, CA 218,455 0
13 Moreno Valley, CA 213,919 0
14 Yonkers, NY 211,040 1
15 Grand Prairie, TX 207,331 1
16 Augusta, GA 206,303 0
17 Oxnard, CA 200,616 0
18 Peoria, AZ 199,924 0
19 Vancouver, WA 198,992 1
20 Montgomery, AL 195,818 1
21 Akron, OH 189,664 1
22 Glendale, CA 187,823 0
23 Ontario, CA 185,285 1
24 Newport News, VA 183,056 0
25 Cary, NC 182,659 1
26 Salem, OR 180,406 1
27 Shreveport, LA 176,578 0
28 Garden Grove, CA 172,361 0
29 Surprise, AZ 167,564 0
30 Palmdale, CA 162,536 1

Read it fairly: counts are within city limits. St. Paul students cross the river to Minneapolis; Aurora practices in Denver. "Underserved" here means no local heated studio — not that residents have never taken a hot class.

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Suggested attribution: “America's Most Underserved Hot Yoga Cities” — HotYogaStudios.org, 2026, linked to https://www.hotyogastudios.org/hot-yoga-stats/underserved/. The tables are CC BY 4.0: chart them, quote them, publish them — just link back. Want a custom cut (by state, metro, or chain)? Email us.

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Methodology: studio counts from our continuously maintained national directory of 3,286 hot yoga studios (public business listings, filtered to genuine hot yoga studios — no cold-only studios, gyms with no heated room, or lesson-only fitness services). City universe = incorporated places and consolidated city-governments with 100,000+ residents, US Census 2024 estimates; census names normalized to everyday names (Nashville-Davidson → Nashville) so no city is falsely flagged. Studios are matched to cities by the city name on their address. Refreshed with each quarterly re-crawl — cities graduate off this list when a studio opens. Browse what nearby markets look like instead: studios by state, or the full stats hub.