Trends · data through September 2026

Motels in California

Iceflower tracks 397 stores from 176 motel chains in California. Super 8 grew fastest over the last year, ahead of American Inn and Motel 6.

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
176
Tracked stores
397
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked motel 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. Super 8 and American Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Super 8 - +1.7%
2 American Inn ▲1 -6.2%
3 Motel 6 - -8.7%
4 Budget Inn - -9.2%
5 Executive Inn ▼1 -47.9%
  • Motel 6
  • Super 8
  • Harris Motel
  • Red Roof
  • Kings Inn
  • Travel Inn
  • Budget Inn
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

397 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 215 of the 397 stores (54%); 161 of the 176 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are motels, the same share as across the United States.

  • Motel 6 (144)
  • Super 8 (43)
  • Harris Motel (1)
  • Red Roof (13)
  • Kings Inn (2)
  • Travel Inn (2)
  • Budget Inn (12)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Motel 6 144
  • 2 Super 8 43
  • 3 Red Roof 13
  • 4 Budget Inn 12
  • 5 American Inn 3
  • 6 Executive Inn 3
  • 7 El Rancho Motel 2
  • 8 Beach Inn 2
  • 9 California Inn 2
  • 10 Rose Garden Inn 2
  • 11 Gold Country Inn 2
  • 12 Holiday Motel 2
  • 13 National 9 Inn 2
  • 14 Travel Inn 2
  • 15 Kings Inn 2
  • 16 Calimesa Inn Motel 1
  • 17 Industry Inn & Suites 1
  • 18 The Alameda Motel 1
  • 19 Super Inn 1
  • 20 Lotus Of Lompoc 1
  • 21 Royal Inn Motel 1
  • 22 Relax Inn 1
  • 23 Travelers Inn 1
  • 24 Gilroy Inn 1
  • 25 Sierra Inn 1
  • 26 Roxford Motel 1
  • 27 San Carlos Inn 1
  • 28 West Coast Motel 1
  • 29 Chino Motel 1
  • 30 Central Coast Inn 1
  • 31 Royal Inn 1
  • 32 Sunshine Motel 1
  • 33 Harris Motel 1
  • 34 Pelican Inn Monterey 1
  • 35 Tahoe Hacienda Inn 1
  • 36 Fairview Inn 1
  • 37 Green Gables Motel and Suites 1
  • 38 Melody Ranch Motel 1
  • 39 Regency Motel of Brea 1
  • 40 Santa Clara Inn 1
  • 41 Foothills Motel 1
  • 42 Bay Cities Motel 1
  • 43 Royal Pagoda Motel 1
  • 44 Menifee Inn 1
  • 45 Crystal Lodge 1
  • 46 Eagle Inn Motel 1
  • 47 Cherry Motel 1
  • 48 La Cienega Inn Motel 1
  • 49 Villa Serena Motel 1
  • 50 Earlimart Motel 1

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