Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Alabama metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 4 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 3 metro areas, and Cuts by Us in 1 metro area. Against their share in Alabama as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 2 metro areas, Supercuts in 2 metro areas, and Cuts by Us in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Auburn-Opelika, AL 1.6× · Tuscaloosa, AL 0.9×
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Supercuts
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Birmingham, AL 1.5× · Mobile, AL 2.8×
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Cuts by Us
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Montgomery, AL 3.7× · Huntsville, AL 2.7×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL, 1.9× its share in Alabama
Not enough tracked stores: Columbus, GA-AL (AL part) · Decatur, AL · Dothan, AL · Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL · Gadsden, AL
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Anniston-Oxford, AL
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Great Clips
#1 in 4 metro areas
Birmingham, AL · Huntsville, AL · Auburn-Opelika, AL · Tuscaloosa, AL
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Sport Clips Haircuts
#1 in 3 metro areas
Mobile, AL · Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL · Anniston-Oxford, AL
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Cuts by Us
#1 in Montgomery, AL
Not enough tracked stores: Columbus, GA-AL (AL part) · Decatur, AL · Dothan, AL · Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL · Gadsden, AL
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Alabama compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Alabama as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Alabama and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Alabama is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Alabama. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked hair salon chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Supercuts and Sport Clips Haircuts sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Supercuts | ▲1 | +7.7% |
| 2 | Sport Clips Haircuts | ▲1 | +3.2% |
| 3 | Cuts by Us | ▲1 | -4.6% |
| 4 | Serenity Salon | - | -6.6% |
| 5 | SmartStyle | ▼3 | -89.0% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Supercuts
- Cuts by Us
- The Hair Depot
- Salon U
- Hair Show
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
507 tracked store locations in Alabama. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 148 of the 507 stores (29%); 319 of the 341 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across the United States.
- Great Clips (73)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (32)
- Supercuts (17)
- Cuts by Us (11)
- The Hair Depot (2)
- Salon U (1)
- Hair Show (2)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 73
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 32
- 3 Supercuts 17
- 4 SmartStyle 15
- 5 Cuts by Us 11
- 6 Southern Roots 6
- 7 Serenity Salon 4
- 8 Cuttin Up 2
- 9 Shine Salon 2
- 10 Cowlicks Salon 2
- 11 Pigtails & Crewcuts 2
- 12 Wheelhouse Salon 2
- 13 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 2
- 14 Cutting Edge 2
- 15 Illusions 2
- 16 Fringe Salon 2
- 17 Fringe Beauty Lounge 2
- 18 The Hair Depot 2
- 19 Hair Show 2
- 20 Perfect Look 2
- 21 Christy's Barber Shop 1
- 22 Studio Chic Salon 1
- 23 Artistic Hair 1
- 24 Fresh on Main Salon 1
- 25 Tangled Beauty Bar 1
- 26 PSC Hair Studio 1
- 27 Opus Salon 1
- 28 The Look Hair Salon 1
- 29 Standards Salon 1
- 30 Mark Anthony's Hair Studio 1
- 31 Tangles Salon 1
- 32 Loose Ends Hair Salon 1
- 33 GeGe's Salon 1
- 34 Classic Beauty Salon and Spa 1
- 35 The Salon Vivacious 1
- 36 Alter'd Muse Salon 1
- 37 Salon Summit 1
- 38 Sister's Hair Salon 1
- 39 Salon 414 1
- 40 Salon Textures 1
- 41 Salon Empyre 1
- 42 Hair by Ealissa 1
- 43 Glow Salon 1
- 44 Beauty Shock 1
- 45 P31 Studio 1
- 46 Studio Seven 1
- 47 Amplify Salon and Spa 1
- 48 Hair Stage 1
- 49 Fabulous Hair 1
- 50 Samson & Delilah's Hair Salon 1
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