Top 590 Art Craft Hobby Store Chains in California (2026)

Metro by metro

The leading art craft hobby store chains in every California metro area

Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Michaels leads in 9 metro areas, Hobby Lobby in 8 metro areas. Against their share in California as a whole, Michaels stands out in 8 metro areas, Hobby Lobby in 3 metro areas.

Relative to California #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Michaels
Relative #1 in 8 metro areas

Los Angeles, CA 1× · San Francisco, CA 1× · San Diego, CA 1.1× · Sacramento, CA 1× · San Jose, CA 1.4× · Oxnard, CA 1.2× · Santa Maria, CA 1.2× · Vallejo, CA 1.5×
Hobby Lobby
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas

Riverside, CA 1.4× · Fresno, CA 1.5× · Stockton-Lodi, CA 1.7×

Not enough tracked stores: El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Redding, CA · Salinas, CA · Visalia, CA · Yuba City, CA

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Bakersfield-Delano, CA · Chico, CA · Modesto, CA · San Luis Obispo, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA · Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA

Michaels
#1 in 9 metro areas

Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CA · San Jose, CA · Oxnard, CA · Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA · Santa Maria, CA · San Luis Obispo, CA · Vallejo, CA
Hobby Lobby
#1 in 8 metro areas

San Diego, CA · Riverside, CA · Sacramento, CA · Fresno, CA · Modesto, CA · Bakersfield-Delano, CA · Stockton-Lodi, CA · Chico, CA

Not enough tracked stores: El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Redding, CA · Salinas, CA · Visalia, CA · Yuba City, CA

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to California compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in California as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in California 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 California 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 Paper Source sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Michaels	-	+2.4%
2	Paper Source	-	-0.1%
3	Airsoft Extreme	-	-34.0%
4	Tandy Leather	-	-38.0%
5	University Art	-	-43.6%
6	Maido	-	-45.0%

Hobby Lobby
Michaels
Blick Art Materials
Color Me Mine
Paper Source
Martine
Top Deck Keep
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

985 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 289 of the 985 stores (29%); 559 of the 590 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.