Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every California metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 15 metro areas, Supercuts in 2 metro areas, and Sport Clips Haircuts in 1 metro area. 5 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in California as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 7 metro areas, Supercuts in 6 metro areas, and Sport Clips Haircuts in 4 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 7 metro areas
Sacramento, CA 1.3× · Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA 1.3× · Bakersfield-Delano, CA 2.3× · Modesto, CA 1.7× · Napa, CA 3.1× · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA 1.8× · Visalia, CA 2.2×
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Supercuts
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
San Francisco, CA 0.7× · San Jose, CA 1.1× · Stockton-Lodi, CA 1.5× · Salinas, CA 2× · San Luis Obispo, CA 3.2× · Merced, CA 2.9×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
San Diego, CA 1.3× · Vallejo, CA 2.3× · Oxnard, CA 2.8× · Fresno, CA 1.6×
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Fantastic Sams
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Los Angeles, CA 2.1× · Riverside, CA 2.6× · Santa Maria, CA 8×
Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Redding, CA · Yuba City, CA
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Great Clips
#1 in 15 metro areas
San Francisco, CA · San Diego, CA · Riverside, CA · Sacramento, CA · San Jose, CA · Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA · Vallejo, CA · Stockton-Lodi, CA · Bakersfield-Delano, CA · Modesto, CA · Salinas, CA · Merced, CA · 3 more
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Supercuts
#1 in 2 metro areas
Los Angeles, CA · San Luis Obispo, CA
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Fantastic Sams
#1 in Santa Maria, CA
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The Spa and Hungry Hair Salon
#1 in Fresno, CA
Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Redding, CA · Yuba City, CA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon 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 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. Haircuts Plus and Brockway Hair Design sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Haircuts Plus | ▲1 | +13.7% |
| 2 | Brockway Hair Design | ▲1 | +11.4% |
| 3 | Sharkey's Cuts for Kids | - | +2.2% |
| 4 | Great Clips | - | -1.3% |
| 5 | Supercuts | - | -3.7% |
| 6 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | -5.8% |
| 7 | Fantastic Sams | - | -9.4% |
| 8 | Bubbles | - | -12.9% |
| 9 | Eyebrow Plus | - | -20.3% |
| 10 | Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids | - | -25.1% |
| 11 | HairMasters | ▼2 | -26.0% |
- Great Clips
- Supercuts
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Rich's
- Fantastic Sams
- Johnson For Hair
- frank.
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
2,051 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 729 of the 2,051 stores (36%); 1,130 of the 1,204 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 (299)
- Supercuts (223)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (138)
- Rich's (1)
- Fantastic Sams (56)
- Johnson For Hair (1)
- frank. (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 299
- 2 Supercuts 223
- 3 Sport Clips Haircuts 138
- 4 Fantastic Sams 56
- 5 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 13
- 6 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 11
- 7 HairMasters 8
- 8 Drybar Shops 8
- 9 Great Cuts 6
- 10 Eyebrow Plus 6
- 11 California Cuts 6
- 12 The Hair Studio 5
- 13 Bubbles 4
- 14 Brockway Hair Design 3
- 15 Haircuts Plus 3
- 16 California Haircuts 2
- 17 Lynn's Hair Design 2
- 18 Pauline's Human Hair 2
- 19 Bella Hair Salon 2
- 20 Honeycomb Salon 2
- 21 DreamGirls Hair Salon 2
- 22 OK Beauty and Hair 2
- 23 Heavenly Hair 2
- 24 Brow Experts Threading Salon 2
- 25 Cuts Etc 2
- 26 Precision Cuts 2
- 27 L Squared Salon 2
- 28 Fringe Salon 2
- 29 Shear Envy 2
- 30 The Hair Port 2
- 31 Haircuts at Tiffanys 1
- 32 BIBO Salon 1
- 33 Hortencia's Hair Salon 1
- 34 Hairdreaming 1
- 35 Sterling Park Beauty Supply 1
- 36 Hair by Kari 1
- 37 Hair by Joey 1
- 38 Willo Aveda Salon 1
- 39 Salon Nine 1
- 40 Stem Salon 1
- 41 Superstar Hair and Wigs Beauty Supply 1
- 42 Beauty by Cristy 1
- 43 Gorgeous Salon NP 1
- 44 Mendo Cuts 1
- 45 Hair By Mar B 1
- 46 The California Cuts 1
- 47 Patrick Evan Salon 1
- 48 Adagio for Hair 1
- 49 Lovely Lucy Hair & Makeup Artistry 1
- 50 Hair By Kati 1
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