The private swimming pool sector has a sixth consecutive year of growth

“For the sixth consecutive year, the turnover of the swimming pool sector has increased and in 2021 reached a record level of growth”, underlined Jacques Braun, administrator of the FPP, during a press conference. .

The year 2021 had already been "tonic with an increase in turnover of 21,5%", he recalled.

In detail, around 244.000 swimming pools were built in France in 2021, including 86.000 buried pools and 158.000 above ground, according to the federation which brings together more than 1.400 French companies specializing in swimming pools and spas.

According to their estimates, 80.000 swimming pools should complete the park in 2022 and up to 150.000 in 2024.

A record figure made possible by “the democratization” of the private swimming pool market as well as by the “generalization of forms of hybrid work”, like teleworking since the health crisis, estimates the president of the FPP, Stéphane Figueora.

The share of workers, farmers and employees owning an in-ground swimming pool would have jumped by 10% in four years, going from 14,1% of swimming pool owners in 2017 to 24,7% in 2021, i.e. nearly 1/4 of owners private swimming pools, he continued, using the figures of a survey carried out by the firm Decryptis in February and March 2022 on behalf of the FPP, with a sample of 18.000 households living in a single-family house.

In total, France today has around 3,2 million private swimming pools, including 1,55 million in-ground swimming pools and 1,64 million above-ground swimming pools, according to figures from the federation, reaffirming France's position as European leader in the construction of pools.