Metro by metro
The leading art craft hobby store chains in every Arizona metro area
Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Hobby Lobby leads in all 4 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Arizona as a whole, Hobby Lobby stands out in 1 metro area, Michaels in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Hobby Lobby
Relative #1 in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ, 1× its share in Arizona
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Michaels
Relative #1 in Tucson, AZ, 1.5× its share in Arizona
Not enough tracked stores: Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ · Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ · Yuma, AZ
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Flagstaff, AZ · Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ
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Hobby Lobby
#1 in all 4 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ · Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ · Yuma, AZ
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Arizona compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Arizona as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Arizona 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 Arizona is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby store 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. Michaels and Arizona Art Supply sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michaels | - | +5.6% |
| 2 | Arizona Art Supply | ▲3 | +0.4% |
| 3 | Tandy Leather | ▲1 | -49.1% |
| 4 | As You Wish | ▼1 | -98.3% |
| 5 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | ▼3 | -100.0% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- Westgate Cards & Collectibles
- SAS Fabrics
- Utrecht Art Supplies
- The Trading Card Club
- Jerry's Artarama
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
227 tracked store locations in Arizona. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 84 of the 227 stores (37%); 132 of the 142 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Hobby Lobby (26)
- Michaels (34)
- Westgate Cards & Collectibles (1)
- SAS Fabrics (2)
- Utrecht Art Supplies (1)
- The Trading Card Club (1)
- Jerry's Artarama (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 34
- 2 Hobby Lobby 26
- 3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 17
- 4 As You Wish 4
- 5 Tandy Leather 3
- 6 Arizona Art Supply 3
- 7 Paper Source 2
- 8 SAS Fabrics 2
- 9 Mulqueen Sewing & Fabric Centers 2
- 10 Color Me Mine 2
- 11 Gnomish Creations 1
- 12 The Creative Casita AZ 1
- 13 Stitches 1
- 14 Bead Garden 1
- 15 The Other Quilt Shop 1
- 16 Cactus Quilting 1
- 17 Design Tex 1
- 18 Z Trendz 1
- 19 Leather Mill 1
- 20 The Tole Shop 1
- 21 The Hobby Garage at PJ's RC 1
- 22 Beads Dolphin 1
- 23 Desert Eagle Guns 1
- 24 Burst Of Butterflies Create & Paint Studio Peoria 1
- 25 Walneck's Safford Sewing Center 1
- 26 ABR Creations Ceramic Studio 1
- 27 Rim Country Soap 1
- 28 Sewing Nuts! 1
- 29 Roxy's Quilt & Sew 1
- 30 Victoria Imports 1
- 31 Phoenix Knits 1
- 32 The Yarnmonger 1
- 33 Grandma's Spinning Wheel 1
- 34 A's Card Cave 1
- 35 Visible Difference 1
- 36 Creative Destination 1
- 37 Sarnoff Artist Materials 1
- 38 Casa Maya de Mexico 1
- 39 Old Town Needlework 1
- 40 Bullhead Hobbies 1
- 41 American Indian Arts 1
- 42 Angels Too Marketplace 1
- 43 TuTugether Arizona 1
- 44 5th Street 1
- 45 Romero House Potters, Inc. 1
- 46 AZ Turn and Burn RC 1
- 47 Reynolds Advanced Materials 1
- 48 Spin Art Phoenix 1
- 49 Tucson Games and Gadgets 1
- 50 Andy's Hobby Headquarters 1
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