Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

Iceflower tracks 1,542 stores from 531 gas & auto chains in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. Brakes Plus grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buc-ee's and Midas.

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
531
Tracked stores
1,542
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. Brakes Plus and Buc-ee's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Brakes Plus ▲4 +16.4%
2 Buc-ee's ▲1 +16.2%
3 Midas ▲8 +14.4%
4 Exxon ▲1 +12.1%
5 QuikTrip - +11.4%
6 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲3 +8.0%
7 Take 5 Oil Change ▲2 +6.4%
8 Rush Automotive - +6.3%
9 Speedy Stop - +5.7%
10 Pilot Flying J ▲1 +4.6%
11 Chevron ▲1 +4.2%
12 Kwik Kar ▲5 +3.8%
13 Murphy USA - +2.4%
14 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▼1 +2.3%
15 Shell - +2.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,542 tracked store locations in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 450 of the 1,542 stores (29%); 436 of the 531 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are vehicle services, against 9% across Texas.

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