A clear starting point
Useful details.
Visible sources.
Every listing should make it easy to see what we know, where it came from and what you still need to ask.
How the collection is chosen
The directory counts 10,462 gyms across 725 cities and localities. Its pages are of two kinds, and every page says which it is. 244 are source-checked: read against the operator’s own website, with the facilities that site lists. 10,349 are map listings: built from the gym’s public map listing and not yet read against its website. A gym can have more than one page: a source-checked one and its own map listing, or two map listings recorded from different sources. It is ranked and counted once, as its fuller record. A map listing whose own name says it is not a gym (an amusement venue, a health practice, a court sport) keeps its page and is not ranked. The first selection used official pages from Dohertys Gym, One Playground and Goodlife Health Clubs. Expanded coverage uses Overture Maps place records as discovery candidates, matched to an official website before publication. Coverage depends on accessible source information and is not a representative survey, recommendation list or complete directory.
What a source check means
We check the linked official website and record supported details. Some links are operator-wide homepages rather than individual location pages. We record the source URL and the date checked, then write a short summary in our own words. The date tells you when the source was consulted; it is not a guarantee that every detail remains current.
The latest recorded source check was in September 2026. Each profile shows when its own source was checked. We have not independently visited the gyms, audited their equipment, verified accessibility or tested their services. Operator statements are presented as operator statements. A map listing shows the gym’s name, suburb, listed type, official website, its Google rating with the number of reviews, and its opening hours where complete, each with the date recorded. A suburb is taken only from the gym’s own address; when that cannot be established the gym is placed at city level from its map coordinates, and says so. A street address is shown only when it names the gym’s own suburb, and a phone number only when it matches the number on the gym’s own website. A map listing is published only when its coordinates fall inside its stated state, it has at least five Google reviews and it has an official website. We do not collect review text or copy business descriptions.
Addresses and contact details
Some expanded listings use an address from an Overture Maps discovery record. A profile explicitly states when the address was not confirmed on the official website; a successful website match alone does not verify a street address, opening status or local branch. Phone numbers and social profiles are shown only with the official page where they were found, and may serve the wider operator. Confirm the specific location before travelling or joining.
Facilities, prices and gaps
The facility filters use only details we recorded from the official sources. An absent tag means “not recorded”, rather than “not available”. A 24-hour tag describes advertised gym access and does not imply 24-hour staffing, pool access, studio access or entry for every age and membership type.
We do not publish inferred prices, ratings of our own, customer review text, trainer qualifications or quality scores. The only use of a Google rating is to rank gyms, adjusted for review count: in the directory, on the home page and on city pages. It is always shown as Google’s figure with the date recorded, never as ours. Confirm current fees, membership inclusions, access conditions and timetables directly with the club.
Order and commercial influence
Every list is ranked best first: the main directory, the gyms on the home page and every city page. Each ranks every gym with a Google rating on file by that rating adjusted for review count. The adjusted figure is a Bayesian average: every gym starts at 4.5 stars from 10 reviews and its own reviews move it from there, (rating × reviews + 45) ÷ (reviews + 10), so 4.9 from 300 reviews outranks 5.0 from 6. Ties go to the gym with more reviews, then by name. Links do not earn referral commission.
A source-checked gym is ranked by the Google rating of its own listing when our data holds that listing: the same place record, its own page on the operator’s website, the same website in the same place, or the same name in the same suburb. It never takes the rating of another branch of the same operator, and when two listings could be the gym it takes neither. That listing is then not listed a second time. 217 of the 244 source-checked gyms are ranked this way; the other 27 have no Google rating on file, so they follow the ranked gyms, alphabetically. No rating is entered by hand. The directory ranks 10,435 gyms and lists 27 after them.
New city and locality pages are published for areas with at least three listings, grouped by state. The five original city guides remain available as the directory grows. The directory filters include every recorded locality. The home page shows the best-rated gyms in the directory, in the directory’s own order.
Corrections and coverage
We use official operator information to review listing details. Email hello@gymneighbour.com.au for corrections or listing suggestions. Include the listing URL and a current official source where possible. For current details about a gym, follow its official website link and check directly with the operator.
Our collection will not include every nearby gym. Missing coverage does not indicate that a business is closed or unsuitable.
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Discovery data attribution
Some provider names and localities originate from Overture Maps Foundation places data, release 2026-08-19.0, accessed in September 2026. Contributors include Meta and Microsoft under CDLA Permissive 2.0, and Foursquare under Apache 2.0. Read the Foursquare notice and our modifications. Records were selected, deduplicated and matched to official websites; this does not imply contributor endorsement. Source attribution details.