Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every California metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. The Home Depot leads in all 16 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in California as a whole, The Home Depot stands out in 9 metro areas, Lowe's Home Improvement in 6 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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The Home Depot
Relative #1 in 9 metro areas
Los Angeles, CA 1.1× · San Francisco, CA 1× · San Diego, CA 1.1× · Sacramento, CA 1.1× · San Jose, CA 1.1× · Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA 0.8× · Stockton-Lodi, CA 1× · Modesto, CA 1× · Santa Maria, CA 1.2×
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Lowe's Home Improvement
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
Riverside, CA 1.3× · Bakersfield-Delano, CA 1.2× · Oxnard, CA 1.5× · Fresno, CA 1.4× · Vallejo, CA 1.9× · Visalia, CA 1.6×
Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Redding, CA · Salinas, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA · Yuba City, CA
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: San Luis Obispo, CA
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The Home Depot
#1 in all 16 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Chico, CA · El Centro, CA · Hanford-Corcoran, CA · Merced, CA · Napa, CA · Redding, CA · Salinas, CA · Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA · Yuba City, CA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center 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 home improvement center 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. Dunn-Edwards Paints and The Home Depot sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Dunn-Edwards Paints | - | +2.8% |
| 2 | The Home Depot | - | +2.2% |
| 3 | DIY Home Center | ▲1 | +2.0% |
| 4 | Lowe's Home Improvement | - | -0.5% |
| 5 | Arizona Tile | ▲3 | -1.9% |
| 6 | Friedman's Home Improvement | - | -3.8% |
| 7 | Sherwin-Williams | - | -7.3% |
| 8 | Floor & Decor | - | -7.4% |
| 9 | Daltile | - | -8.4% |
| 10 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | - | -8.6% |
| 11 | Patagonia Building Supplies | ▲1 | -12.3% |
| 12 | Sepulveda Building Materials | ▲1 | -13.4% |
| 13 | RWC Building Products | - | -14.3% |
| 14 | Sacramento | ▲1 | -17.8% |
| 15 | Resource Building Materials | - | -18.6% |
- The Home Depot
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- Friedman's Home Improvement
- Floor & Decor
- Sherwin-Williams
- Leslie's Pool Supplies
- Dunn-Edwards Paints
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,232 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 764 of the 1,232 stores (62%); 273 of the 321 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, the same share as across the United States.
- The Home Depot (245)
- Lowe's Home Improvement (116)
- Friedman's Home Improvement (8)
- Floor & Decor (30)
- Sherwin-Williams (171)
- Leslie's Pool Supplies (135)
- Dunn-Edwards Paints (97)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 The Home Depot 245
- 2 Sherwin-Williams 171
- 3 Leslie's Pool Supplies 135
- 4 Lowe's Home Improvement 116
- 5 Dunn-Edwards Paints 97
- 6 Floor & Decor 30
- 7 Daltile 12
- 8 Tom Duffy Wholesale Flooring Products 12
- 9 Contractors' Warehouse 11
- 10 DIY Home Center 9
- 11 Friedman's Home Improvement 8
- 12 Arizona Tile 7
- 13 RCP Block and Brick 7
- 14 Resource Building Materials 6
- 15 Emser Tile 6
- 16 Bedrosians Tile and Stone 6
- 17 Flooring Liquidators 5
- 18 Big D Floor Covering Supplies 4
- 19 Payless Building Supply 4
- 20 Benjamin Moore 4
- 21 Sacramento 4
- 22 Thompson Building Materials 4
- 23 Sepulveda Building Materials 3
- 24 San Lorenzo Lumber and Home Centers 3
- 25 Patagonia Building Supplies 3
- 26 RWC Building Products 3
- 27 Graniterock 2
- 28 Tile Express 2
- 29 Gray's Paint Stores 2
- 30 Peninsula Building Materials 2
- 31 Denair Lumber Co Inc 2
- 32 Granite Outlet 2
- 33 Foster Lumber Yard 2
- 34 Tileco 2
- 35 Tileshop 2
- 36 West End Material Supply 2
- 37 Larry's Building Materials 2
- 38 Southeast Construction Products 2
- 39 Sierra Rock 2
- 40 Ceramic Tile Center 2
- 41 Flooring 101 2
- 42 Mendo Mill 2
- 43 Home Depot 2
- 44 MacBeath Hardwood 2
- 45 East Star Building Supply 2
- 46 New Impressions Tile Inc 1
- 47 California Rock & Ready Mix 1
- 48 Larsen Bros. Lumber Co. 1
- 49 P & S Building Materials 1
- 50 Yancey Home Center 1
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