New figures from Powys County Council reveal that Maldwyn Leisure Centre in Newtown only ranked 5th out of 13 for participation in 2021-2022.
In a response to a Freedom of Information Act request by a member of the public, Powys County Council have released participation rates for Leisure Centres in 2021-2022.
Surprisingly, Maldwyn Leisure Centre in Newtown ranks 5th out of the 13 currently operating leisure centres - with 105,701 visitors in the year. This represented 7.7% of the overall participants to Powys leisure centres in the year, with Brecon topping the list at just over 245k visitors.
Since 2015, the centre was getting on average 210k visitors a year up until the pandemic when it dropped to 27k a year.
Below is the full data from the County Council, showing participation rates in each financial year.
| Leisure Centre | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
| Brecon | 254,203 | 233,102 | 272,048 | 281,684 | 266,920 | 39,525 | 245,515 |
| Ystradgynlais | 101,139 | 146,502 | 146,502 | 194,777 | 232,367 | 42,295 | 227,124 |
| Flash | 245,391 | 303,870 | 300,256 | 302,961 | 216,780 | 30,252 | 208,714 |
| Llanidloes | 85,635 | 80,222 | 101,541 | 102,611 | 108,535 | 7,676 | 107,802 |
| Maldwyn | 167,104 | 190,546 | 228,264 | 224,470 | 244,503 | 27,479 | 105,701 |
| Llanfair Caereinion | 35,399 | 83,955 | 82,873 | 85,151 | 95,895 | 30,266 | 98,111 |
| Builth Wells | 92,653 | 143,592 | 127,337 | 134,435 | 125,391 | 22,491 | 81,129 |
| Llandrindod Wells | 93,254 | 105,451 | 90,304 | 96,411 | 98,048 | 12,238 | 72,000 |
| Bro Ddyfi | 84,566 | 71,587 | 83,518 | 90,806 | 80,517 | 3,304 | 62,089 |
| Llanfyllin | 100,295 | 93,092 | 88,250 | 89,784 | 82,954 | 11,160 | 48,440 |
| Rhayader | 60,515 | 85,814 | 83,751 | 70,324 | 61,954 | 7,949 | 47,052 |
| Knighton | 36,869 | 58,130 | 56,717 | 58,121 | 61,177 | 3,232 | 42,165 |
| East Radnor | 48,911 | 73,450 | 87,073 | 72,190 | 44,426 | 5,844 | 30,576 |
| Staylittle | 13,318 | 9,994 | 11,046 | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 1,419,252 | 1,679,307 | 1,759,480 | 1,803,725 | 1,719,467 | 243,711 | 1,376,418 |
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