# Sports facilities census: what the Data ES database contains (333,600 facilities)

> France's sports facilities census (Data ES): what the ministry's database contains, reporting requirements, updates, and how to download it.

Source: https://scalon.fr/en/blog/data-es-french-sports-facilities-census

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Data ES lists 333,571 facilities as of November 9, 2026, most of them public; in six activities where private operators play a significant role, more than one in two venues is missing from the database.

By [Nicolas Morillot](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-morillot-22b656174/) · Co-founder of Scalon

Data as of November 9, 2026 · Data ES (ministry in charge of sports), Sirene registry and Scalon graph · 232 cases checked one by one, 221 websites read

The short answer

Data ES, the sports facilities census of France's ministry in charge of sports, listed 333,571 facilities on November 9, 2026, 71% of them owned by municipalities. It gives no phone number or email. According to Scalon, in six activities where private operators play a significant role (fitness, horseback riding, padel, climbing, bowling, karting), more than one in two venues is missing from the database (64%).

Get the list of sports facilities in France, with the contact details available.

Published on November 9, 2026 · Data as of November 9, 2026

Key figures

More than 1 in 2

Of gyms and clubs in six activities are missing from the census

21,043 fitness, horseback riding, padel, climbing, bowling and karting venues found by Scalon; 232 cases checked one by one, November 2026

94%

Of records carry the same update date, March 31, 2025: the date does not say whether the facility still exists

333,571 facilities in the Data ES export of November 9, 2026

1 in 9

Of sites where a company owns or operates a facility carry a company's SIRET number (the French ID of a business location)

13,508 sites; the file has no phone or email column

## In this article

- Data ES, the official database of sports facilities in France
- What Data ES covers: sports facilities, spaces, and sites
- Who owns and operates sports facilities?
- What Data ES does not show: a share of gyms and clubs
- How do you use Data ES to prospect?
- Cross-referencing Data ES with Sirene: how-to and pitfalls
- Downloading the full Data ES file: files, license and uses
- Who must declare a facility, and how often the database is updated
- Frequently asked questions

## Data ES, the official database of sports facilities in France

The national sports facilities census, called Data ES, is the official database of sports facilities and places to play sports in France. It is produced by France's sports ministry. Every owner of a sports facility must declare it, with exceptions that include exclusively family use.

Two acronyms are in use. RES refers to the national census and the associated reporting requirement. Data ES is the national file published as a result.

The national file we downloaded on November 9, 2026 lists 333,571 facilities. They are spread across 152,018 sites, or 2.2 facilities per site, and sorted into 186 types and 30 families. The file covers mainland France and the overseas territories, with 9,232 facilities overseas.

A site is a place with an address. A facility is the space where people play: a field, a pool, a hall. A sports complex is therefore one site with several facilities. The ministry says so in its methodology: one record is created per site, and one record per facility.

In practice: counting "places" or "facilities" does not give the same number. When you read a figure about sports, always ask which of the two it counts.

What the database does not contain, and how to use it to prospect, is covered below: the gyms and clubs that are missing and prospecting.

## What Data ES covers: sports facilities, spaces, and sites

A facility is a field, a hall, a pool or a table tennis table. The RES also covers sports spaces and sites that are not buildings.

The scope covers sports facilities, spaces and sites in service, public or private, open to the public for free or for a fee. Several categories are excluded, including exclusively family use, mobile facilities and those tied to fairground events. The census documentation, republished on data.gouv.fr by the Île-de-France Region, also excludes small leisure facilities (mini golf, concrete table tennis tables, children's play equipment) and facilities in bars and restaurants, such as a billiards room, unless an association actually plays there.

As of May 7, 2026, 333,808 facilities were listed, according to the Banque des Territoires (Localtis, May 29, 2026). That figure comes from the press, which does not say which edition of the file it is drawn from. The national file we downloaded on November 9, 2026 lists 333,571.

Caption: number of facilities per family; Data ES export of November 9, 2026. Scalon Observatory.

The data behind the figure

| Family | Facilities |
| --- | --- |
| Outdoor sports sites and trails | 42,125 |
| Large playing fields | 41,402 |
| Tennis courts | 38,357 |
| Boules courts | 28,662 |
| Multi-sport courts (city-stades) | 25,590 |
| Multi-sport halls | 18,653 |
| Multi-purpose halls | 16,203 |
| Equestrian facilities | 15,776 |
| Specialized halls or courts | 15,373 |
| Small outdoor courts for team sports | 14,602 |

The most common are outdoor sports sites and trails (42,125 facilities), large playing fields (41,402), tennis courts (38,357), boules courts (28,662), and multi-sport courts (25,590). The file also lists 6,305 swimming pools.

By setting, 54% of facilities are outdoors and 26% indoors; 57,512 are on natural or developed sites. 37% have open access (123,951).

In practice: the database describes fields and sites first, not businesses.

## Who owns and operates sports facilities?

**Owners.** Municipalities own 235,752 facilities, or 71%. Municipalities, intercommunal authorities, départements (French administrative divisions), and regions together own 266,000 facilities (80%). Private commercial businesses own 25,914 (8%). Next come associations (7,966), private non-commercial owners (9,034), private schools (3,857) and the State (4,770). 3,101 facilities have no declared owner. These municipal facilities are located in 26,658 municipalities; intercommunal authorities own facilities in 1,102 territories. On the private side, the file lets you identify only 992 owner companies by their SIREN number (the French company ID).

Ownership varies widely by family.

Who owns what, family by family

| Family | Facilities | Local governments | Private companies |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Outdoor sports sites and trails | 42,125 | 67% | 2% |
| Large playing fields | 41,402 | 94% | 1% |
| Tennis courts | 38,357 | 89% | 4% |
| Boules courts | 28,662 | 94% | 1% |
| Multi-sport courts | 25,590 | 93% | 1% |
| Multi-sport halls | 18,653 | 90% | 1% |
| Multi-purpose halls | 16,203 | 94% | 1% |
| Equestrian facilities | 15,776 | 12% | 63% |
| Specialized halls or courts | 15,373 | 72% | 17% |
| Small outdoor courts for team sports | 14,602 | 87% | 2% |

Only equestrian facilities are mostly private (63% owned by companies); specialized halls or courts are at 17%. In the other eight families in the table, local governments own at least 67%.

**Operators.** Municipalities run 199,531 facilities themselves (60%). Associations run 41,474 (12%) and private companies 28,429. 5,981 facilities are operated under public service delegation agreements.

**Age.** The file gives the commissioning period for 294,311 facilities; 39,260 have no date.

Caption: facilities by declared commissioning period; 294,311 facilities with a known period, Data ES export of November 9, 2026. Scalon Observatory.

The data behind the figure

| Commissioning period | Facilities |
| --- | --- |
| Before 1945 | 10,635 |
| 1945-1964 | 16,011 |
| 1965-1974 | 28,972 |
| 1975-1984 | 52,869 |
| 1985-1994 | 67,256 |
| 1995-2004 | 70,787 |
| Since 2005 | 47,781 |

37% of facilities with a known period (108,487 out of 294,311) came into service before 1985. 16% came into service in 2005 or later.

**Geography.** 51% of facilities (170,845) are in rural municipalities, classified as rural towns or areas with dispersed or very dispersed populations. 66,626 are in large urban centers.

Number of facilities, region by region

| Region | Facilities listed |
| --- | --- |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 42,746 |
| Occitanie | 40,008 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 36,162 |
| Grand Est | 31,883 |
| Île-de-France | 30,086 |
| Hauts-de-France | 26,409 |
| Pays de la Loire | 23,438 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 21,676 |
| Bretagne | 19,282 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 17,668 |
| Normandie | 16,795 |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 16,717 |
| La Réunion | 3,040 |
| Corse | 1,311 |
| Guadeloupe | 1,212 |
| Nouvelle-Calédonie | 1,212 |
| Martinique | 1,195 |
| Polynésie française | 994 |
| Guyane | 993 |
| Mayotte | 438 |
| Region not stated | 158 |
| Wallis-et-Futuna | 67 |
| Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | 38 |
| Saint-Martin | 27 |
| Saint-Barthélemy | 16 |

In practice: if you sell maintenance, surfacing, lighting or energy retrofits, you sell first to municipalities. These facilities are also aging: among those with a known date, more than one in three came into service before 1985.

## What Data ES does not show: a share of gyms and clubs

We matched the census against Scalon's graph of business locations, built from public business listings and professional directories. The graph covers six activities where private operators play a significant role: gyms, riding centers, padel, climbing gyms, bowling alleys, and karting. That makes 21,043 open venues.

A venue is "in the census" if a facility of the same type is declared within 250 meters of it (500 meters for riding centers and karting). Before checking, 63% have no facility of the same type nearby. We then checked 232 cases one by one, comparing the name, the category and the sites declared within 2 km. Of 177 venues with no match, 150 were truly missing and 11 were present under another name or another type. Of 55 "matches," 35 were truly present, 4 were actually a different place nearby (a school or municipal hall, for example), and 16 remain uncertain.

Result: more than one venue in two is missing from the census. Our estimate is 64%, or about 13,400 venues; every variant of the calculation stays above 1 in 2 (see the method).

Caption: share of venues in the Scalon graph with no facility of the same type in the census, before checking; Data ES and Scalon graph, November 9, 2026. Scalon Observatory.

| Activity | Venues found | No facility of the same type nearby | With a phone number |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gyms | 12,398 | 69% | 62% |
| Riding centers | 7,010 | 52% | 93% |
| Padel | 510 | 92% | 82% |
| Bowling alleys | 408 | 52% | 89% |
| Karting | 363 | 36% | 93% |
| Climbing gyms | 354 | 62% | 75% |

Padel stands out: 92% of venues have no declared court nearby. Gyms (69%) and climbing gyms (62%) follow; riding centers and bowling alleys are at 52%, karting at 36%. These percentages cover all venues before verification; the checks are used to adjust only the overall estimate.

To be safe, we also read the websites of missing venues chosen at random. Of the 201 websites reviewed across these six activities, 88% describe sports activities at the venue, and 82% describe the expected activity specifically. If we exclude missing venues with no sports activity on site within each category, the share missing from the census remains 60%.

Golf has its own study, on the [number of golf courses in France](/en/observatory/number-of-golf-courses-in-france): it separately checked 92 golf sites from the census, one by one; about one in six (15) is not, or no longer, a golf course, and 62 real golf courses are missing from it.

In practice: a prospect list built from the census alone leaves out more than half of the gyms and clubs in these activities, and almost every padel club. The census does not say why; we do not measure it either.

What we checked

21,043 venues in six activities matched against the census. 232 cases checked one by one, missing and matched. 221 websites read, 30 of them re-read by hand by Scalon.

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## How do you use Data ES to prospect?

Data ES helps you size your market, choose which owners to target, and build a prospect list. The file gives no contact details; it gives filters.

### Size your market

Use the file's columns to filter facilities based on the product or service you sell:

| Your offer | Filter in Data ES (columns) | National volume |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Field lighting | Large playing fields, tennis courts, or multi-sport courts (city-stades) (`equip_type_famille`); `equip_eclair` = no; municipality or intercommunal authority (EPCI) as owner (`equip_prop_type`) | 48,518 public fields listed as having no lighting, out of 105,349 large playing fields, tennis courts, and city-stades |
| Synthetic turf | Large playing fields, `equip_sol` = natural grass | 32,576 fields (3,078 are already synthetic) |
| Renovation, code compliance | `equip_service_periode` before 1985 | 108,487 facilities |
| Accessibility | `equip_acces_handi_mobilite` (filled in for 58% of facilities) | filter by value |
| Booking or management software | Operator (`equip_gest_type`) or public service delegation (`equip_dsp`) | 199,531 run by a municipality, 41,474 by an association, 28,429 by a company, 5,981 under a public service delegation |
| Tennis courts | Tennis family, operator (`equip_gest_type`) | 8,882 run by an association, 1,623 by a company |

One site often has several facilities: group by site (`inst_numero`) before counting your prospects.

### Segment: public, nonprofit, private

Cross-reference the owner, operator, and facility family. A municipality may own a field while an association operates it; in that case, the buyer of your software is not the owner. 51% of facilities are in rural municipalities. The file identifies 26,658 municipalities with municipally owned facilities and 1,102 areas with facilities owned by an intercommunal authority: these are potential public sector accounts.

### Target a territory

Four columns are enough: `new_code` (municipality), `dep_code` (département), `epci_code` (intercommunal authority) and `reg_nom` (region). The table of facilities by region, above, gives the volume for each.

### Build the file

1. Download the full Data ES file.
2. Filter it with the columns in the table above.
3. Group the rows by site (`inst_numero`): one place, one prospect.
4. Link each site to its operator, then to its contact.

For the last step, you need to know how to [build a prospect list](/en/blog/b2b-prospect-list): link the place to the operator, then to their business contact details.

For private operators, compare with care. In the six activities we track, the census describes 8,604 distinct sites where a company owns or operates a facility of the type studied, with no phone number. Scalon finds 21,043 open venues there, including companies, associations and public gyms, 75% of them with a phone number. These counts use different units and cover different populations.

Do you sell to sports facilities?

Scalon links facilities, operators and venues, with their business contact details. [Professionals: get 100 businesses in your area](/en#call)

## Cross-referencing Data ES with Sirene: how-to and pitfalls

80% of sites (122,353 out of 152,018) have a SIRET number (the French ID of a business location). But this SIRET number usually identifies the public owner: 97% (118,760 out of 122,302) of the numbers found in Sirene, the French business registry maintained by Insee (France's national statistics office), belong to a public body, including 108,815 belonging to municipalities (Sirene registry as of September 24, 2026).

Among the 13,508 sites where a private company owns or operates a facility, only 1 in 4 (24%, or 3,224) lists a SIRET number, and only 1,496 (11%) list one belonging to a company; the other SIRET numbers often identify the owning municipality. 34% have a website.

Another pitfall: 756 sites list SIRET numbers for locations marked as closed in the registry, including 414 belonging to municipalities.

To find private operators, start from the Insee activity codes (NAF codes, the French activity classification codes, also called APE codes):

- 93.11Z, operation of sports facilities: 8,551 active locations, including 4,488 companies and 2,090 associations;
- 93.13Z, fitness centers: 6,968, 90% of them companies (6,269);
- 93.12Z, sports clubs: 196,287, 99% of them associations (193,448);
- 93.19Z, other sports-related activities: 48,987 (Sirene registry snapshot as of September 24, 2026).

You query these codes in [Insee's Sirene database](/en/blog/sirene-database), filtering by municipality or by department.

In practice: a join on SIRET gives you the town hall, not the operator. For a private gym or club, start from the registry or from a graph of business locations.

## Downloading the full Data ES file: files, license and uses

The facilities database is published on [the Data ES page of data.gouv.fr](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-espaces-et-sites-de-pratiques), published by the ministry in charge of sports and updated on November 8, 2026. It has four main files (full, sites, facilities, activities), including a full CSV (spreadsheet file) of about 335 MB. The full file has one row per facility: 333,571 rows and 115 columns on November 9, 2026.

Reuse is governed by the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (the French government open license).

**Filter by municipality or department.** Each row includes the municipality code (column `new_code`), the département, the intercommunal authority (EPCI), the region, the académie (regional education district), and GPS coordinates. You can also filter by family or facility type, by owner and by operator.

The file has 115 columns, including the address, the site's SIRET, dimensions, accessibility and the year of commissioning. One column gives the website: it is filled in for 13% of sites (19,217). However, **the file has no phone or email column**.

The useful columns, and how often they are filled in

| Useful columns for prospecting | What it gives | Filled in for (share of the 333,571 facilities) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `equip_eclair` | Facility lighting | 100% |
| `equip_sol` | Surface type | 98% |
| `equip_surf` | Surface area | 84% |
| `equip_service_date` | Year of commissioning | 63% |
| `equip_travaux_date` | Year of the most recent work | 22% |
| `equip_acces_handi_mobilite` | Access for people with reduced mobility | 58% |
| `equip_energie` | Energy used | 26% |
| `inst_siret` | Site SIRET | 81% |
| `equip_prop_nom` | Owner's name | 31% |
| `equip_gest_type` | Type of operator | 97% |
| `equip_url` | Website | 14% |
| `inst_adresse` | Site address | 95% |
| `equip_coordonnees` | GPS coordinates | 100% |
| `equip_rnb` | Building ID (France's national building reference database) | 23% |

Here is what we measured. In the file of November 9, 2026, 94% of records (312,969) carry the same update date: March 31, 2025. 20,601 records have been modified since April 2025 (6%), 15,222 of them in the last twelve months. So this field does not say when each record was last checked in the field.

In practice: to know whether a facility still exists, the file's date is not enough. The file flags 463 facilities as out of service; that does not confirm that the others are still in service.

The open API of the equipements.sports.gouv.fr website does the same thing without downloading the file.

This data is used to describe the supply of sports facilities in an area. The Banque des Territoires highlights this use: it sees it as a tool for local policy.

Need the list of sports facilities in France? We send it with the contact details available, for the scope you choose.

## Who must declare a facility, and how often the database is updated

Article L312-2 of the Code du sport (France's sports code) sets the rule: "Tout propriétaire d'un équipement sportif est tenu d'en faire la déclaration à l'administration en vue de l'établissement d'un recensement des équipements" (every owner of a sports facility must declare it to the administration for the purpose of establishing a census of facilities). Two exceptions: exclusively family use and facilities under the minister in charge of defense. A decree issued after review by the Conseil d'État (France's Council of State) sets the implementing rules.

The law sets reporting deadlines for owners; it does not specify a schedule for updating the entire file. The same article provides for a separate census, organized by académie, of locations suitable for students' physical education; that census is updated every two years. The ministry describes a database updated daily; the Banque des Territoires reports more than 150,000 records updated in three years.

For the process itself, the ministry's portal offers a [declaration page](https://equipements.sports.gouv.fr/). The designated contact at DRAJES, the regional sports authority, can help you complete the declaration, according to Maire-info (June 10, 2024).

The Code du sport (article R312-3) gives three months after commissioning, or after any change, transfer or removal, to declare the facility to the prefect (the French state's local representative) (some private facilities must be declared before any change). Failure to declare is punishable by the fine prescribed for a class 2 minor offense under French law (article R312-7).

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Data ES free?

Yes. The file is published under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (the French government open license), as CSV and through an open API. You can reuse it, including for commercial use, as long as you cite the source.

### How do you declare or correct a facility?

Submit the declaration online at equipements.sports.gouv.fr; the deadline and the representative who can help you are in the section on the duty to declare. If the site's search already shows the facility, use "Modifier l'équipement" (edit the facility). Otherwise, use the site's form.

### How many sports facilities are there in France?

Data ES lists 333,571 as of November 9, 2026. The Insee permanent facilities database (2023) lists 182,700, but with a different scope and counting unit: it excludes outdoor sports sites and some other types, and counts the facilities of a single site differently.

### How do you find the SIRET number of a sports facility?

The Data ES file gives the site's SIRET in the `inst_siret` column. It is often the owning municipality's. For a private business, use the Sirene registry to [find its SIRET number](/en/blog/find-siret-number).

### Does Data ES include private gyms?

Only in part. In the six activities we track, 64% of venues are missing from it, by our estimate. Before checking, 69% of gyms and 92% of padel clubs have no facility of the same type declared nearby.

## Other published sources

Figures published elsewhere, and what they measure

| Source | What it publishes | Comparison with our findings |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Localtis (Banque des Territoires), May 29, 2026 | 333,808 facilities as of May 7, 2026 | 333,571 as of November 9, 2026: consistent (the file changes every day) |
| Cour des comptes (France's national audit court), report of March 17, 2025 (January 2025 data) | 332,754 facilities; 86% more than 20 years old; nearly 80% owned by municipalities or their groupings | 75% owned by municipalities and intercommunal authorities, 80% with departments and regions: consistent. Among facilities with a known period, 37% came into service before 1985 (the Cour des comptes measures age; we use the declared period) |
| Insee, permanent facilities database 2023 | 182,700 sports facilities | Different scope and unit: excludes outdoor sports sites, different classification, facilities of a single site counted differently |
| Assemblée nationale, ministerial answer of July 7, 2026 | 51% of facilities in rural areas | 51%: consistent |
| Cnis (France's national council for statistical information) | 30 families, 160 types | 30 families, 186 types in the file of November 9, 2026 |

## Method

We read the full Data ES file of November 9, 2026, linked it to the Sirene registry and to Scalon's graph of business locations, then checked 232 cases one by one.

Method in detail

- **Data ES file**: full CSV from the open API provided by France's sports ministry, downloaded on November 9, 2026, 333,571 rows (one per facility).
- **Sirene registry**: Insee registry snapshot as of September 24, 2026.
- **Scalon graph**: records of operating venues in six activities (gyms, riding centers, padel, climbing gyms, bowling alleys, karting), read on November 9, 2026; one venue = one node of the graph.
- **Geographic matching**: distance to the nearest facility of the same type, 250 meters (500 meters for riding and karting). Before checking, the share of gyms with no match is 69% at the chosen radius; with half or double the radius, it ranges from 77% to 55%; for padel, 92%, it ranges from 93% to 91%.
- **One-by-one check**: 232 cases in total, selected at random by activity, checked by Scalon by comparing the name, the category and the sites declared within 2 km. 177 venues with no match (100 of them gyms): 150 confirmed missing, 11 present, 16 uncertain. Of 55 matches, 35 were confirmed, 4 referred to other places, and 16 remained uncertain, after Scalon manually reviewed the 7 cases initially classified as "other place" (4 confirmed as other places, 2 uncertain, 1 present under another type). The check looks at no more than twelve sites within 2 km; a generic or different name can prevent identifying a match. The rates measured for each activity are used to adjust both its unmatched and matched counts.
- **Estimate**: 64% missing (about 13,400), uncertain cases counted as half; 95% confidence interval from 59.4% to 68.1% (2,000 resamplings of the checked cases), a margin of 4.3 percentage points. All uncertain counted as present: 56%; all counted as missing: 72%. Removing, activity by activity, the missing venues with no sport on site (websites read): 60%.
- **Website reading**: 240 websites of missing venues chosen at random (golf included), 221 read, 201 of them in the six activities (Claude Haiku 5.5 model from Anthropic, quotation checked against the page). Scalon manually reviewed 30; all 30 agreed with the automated readings. Reading cost: $0.15.
- **Limits**: business listing categories may include venues outside the intended activity (such as a gymnastics facility listed as a fitness gym); the census may list a venue under a different facility type.

## Cite this study

The full citation

> Scalon Observatory, "Sports facilities census: what the Data ES database contains," November 9, 2026: of 21,043 venues in six activities where private operators play a significant role (fitness, horseback riding, padel, climbing, bowling, karting), more than one in two is missing from the census (64%, 232 cases checked one by one); 94% of records in the national file carry the same update date, March 31, 2025; among sites where a company owns or operates a facility, 1 in 9 carries a company's SIRET number. [https://scalon.fr/en/blog/data-es-french-sports-facilities-census](/en/blog/data-es-french-sports-facilities-census)

## Sources

The sources, with their links

- Ministère chargé des Sports, dataset « Recensement des équipements sportifs, espaces et sites de pratiques » on data.gouv.fr: [https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-espaces-et-sites-de-pratiques](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-espaces-et-sites-de-pratiques)
- Data ES, portal of the ministère chargé des Sports (declaration, API, methodology): [https://equipements.sports.gouv.fr/](https://equipements.sports.gouv.fr/)
- Ministère chargé des Sports, Data ES page: [https://www.sports.gouv.fr/recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-data-es-671](https://www.sports.gouv.fr/recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-data-es-671)
- Légifrance, Code du sport, article L312-2: [https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000045293765](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000045293765)
- Légifrance, Code du sport, articles R312-2 through R312-7: [https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT000006071318/LEGISCTA000006182685](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT000006071318/LEGISCTA000006182685)
- Localtis (Banque des Territoires), May 29, 2026: [https://www.banquedesterritoires.fr/en-open-data-le-recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-devient-un-outil-pour-les-politiques-locales](https://www.banquedesterritoires.fr/en-open-data-le-recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-devient-un-outil-pour-les-politiques-locales)
- Cour des comptes, rapport public annuel 2025, « L'accès des jeunes au sport »: [https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/2025-03/20250319-RPA-2025-acces-jeunes-au-sport.pdf](https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/2025-03/20250319-RPA-2025-acces-jeunes-au-sport.pdf)
- Insee Première n° 2041, base permanente des équipements 2023: [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8376522](https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8376522)
- Assemblée nationale, question écrite n° 13221, answer of July 7, 2026: [https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/questions/QANR5L17QE13221](https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/questions/QANR5L17QE13221)
- Cnis, « Données concernant les équipements sportifs »: [https://www.cnis.fr/donnees-administratives/donnees-concernant-les-equipements-sportifs](https://www.cnis.fr/donnees-administratives/donnees-concernant-les-equipements-sportifs)
- Maire-info, June 10, 2024, « Recensement national des équipements sportifs : l'outil Data ES au service des collectivités »: [https://www.maire-info.com/sports/recensement-national-des-equipements-sportifs-l'outil-data-es-au-service-des-collectivites-article-28690](https://www.maire-info.com/sports/recensement-national-des-equipements-sportifs-l'outil-data-es-au-service-des-collectivites-article-28690)
- Insee, Sirene registry: [https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/](https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/)
- Région Île-de-France, census documentation republished on data.gouv.fr (exclusions): [https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-espaces-et-sites-de-pratiques-2](https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/recensement-des-equipements-sportifs-espaces-et-sites-de-pratiques-2)

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