Escape Room Industry Data

Industry commentator and founder of website the logic escapes me ken ferguson has documented.

Escape room industry data.

The us escape room industry has grown from approximately 2 dozen escape room facilities in 2014 to more than 2 350 facilities 5 years later. That number has grown to 2 000. At the escape room industry conference 2019 i gave a presentation on data and statistics surrounding escape rooms. A two year analysis of booking revenue and consumer behavior trends in the united states escape room market.

At the present moment 2 800 escape room businesses in the u s. According to the state of the escape room industry report 2018 59 of escape room owners reported having plans to expand within the next year. And while nothing goes up in a straight line forever the escape room market is still on the rise. Since then the growth rate has slowed and the closure rate has increased.

2019 will be the year to remember for the sudden increase of dichotomy in quality. Statistics indicate that fewer than 3 5 of adult americans have visited an escape room with only twice that number even knowing what an escape room is. According to recent data there are over 3 000 escape games in europe and around 14 000 worldwide. If we were trying to project where the escape room industry is going then our closest reference point would be the trends of the cinema industry.

Claim at least 60 000 in annual revenue. One specific element of that was an analysis of the international escape room market and i thought it would be interesting to share some of the data i collected with a wider audience. The number of escape rooms in the uk increased by 147 on average year on year between 2013 and 2017. One of the most successful mission escape games which opened in 2014 in.

The industry grew most rapidly in the third quarter of 2016.