With the development of the national fitness program,people continue to pay attention to sports and health,and the distri-bution of sports venues has gradually become an important factor affecting residents'exercise.Based on the POI data,this paper a-dopts a variety of spatial analysis methods to study the sports venues in the urban area of Huangshi and draws the following conclu-sions:(1)The space of various sports venues in the urban area of Huangshi is characterized by"more in the central area and less in the surrounding areas".(2)The sports venues are in the"east-west"direction,and the scope is concentrated in Huangshigang dis-trict,Xialu district and Xisaishan district.(3)The kernel density analysis of sports venues shows a pattern of"diffusion from the cen-ter to the periphery".After they are divided into three categories,all kinds of sports venues show the characteristics of"multiple cen-ters-scattered points"in space.(4)There is a strong positive correlation between the distribution of sports venues and residential are-as.It helps the research of the fairness of sports venues in Huangshi urban area and provides reference for the optimization of layout.