Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 367 stores from 209 gas & auto chains in Asheville, NC. Marathon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Spot and Exxon.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
209
Tracked stores
367
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Marathon and Hot Spot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Marathon - +16.3%
2 Hot Spot ▲2 +14.7%
3 Exxon ▲2 +10.1%
4 BP ▲1 +6.4%
5 Ingles Gas Express - +5.8%
6 Shell - +0.8%
7 Circle K - -0.8%
8 Gulf ▲1 -2.0%
9 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▼1 -2.5%
10 Citgo ▼1 -4.5%
11 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲1 -5.1%
12 Speedway ▼1 -7.6%
13 Advance Auto Parts ▼1 -10.8%
14 Quality Plus ▼1 -11.1%
15 AutoZone - -11.1%

Store footprint

Store map

367 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 83 of the 367 stores (23%); 176 of the 209 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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