how many swimming pools are there in texas? I’m mostly interested in privately owned ones, but if there is a texas-wide number, I’ll take it.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: AP can’t find any compiled figures on this, and I think you might have to contact every single municipality and county in the state. The local propery taxing authorities would be the ones most interested. However, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s “2002 Economic Census: Construction: Geographic Area Series” for Texas, the value of *new* construction of outdoor swimming pools for only 2002 was $657,627,000. That’s 2/3 of a billion dollars annually in new swimming pools. If you fly into the Dallas or Houston airports, you’ll believe it.