Growth
Cricket Wireless against its category
The biggest tracked US prepaid & budget wireless by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Cricket Wireless's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metro by T-Mobile | -7.7% |
| 2 | Cricket Wireless | +2.6% |
| 3 | Boost Mobile | -3.3% |
| 4 | Total Wireless | - |
| 5 | Consumer Cellular | - |
| 6 | Talk 4 Less Wireless | - |
| 7 | Metro PCS | - |
| 8 | pinwheel.com | - |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
844 tracked Cricket Wireless locations across 39 US states and DC. Texas, Florida, and Ohio hold 26% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 90
- Florida 68
- Ohio 63
- California 47
- North Carolina 42
- Illinois 41
- Pennsylvania 39
- Alabama 36
- Indiana 34
- Georgia 33
- Kentucky 33
- Arizona 27
- Utah 27
- New York 26
- Tennessee 24
- Maryland 22
- Virginia 20
- Wisconsin 17
- South Carolina 16
- Colorado 15
- Michigan 15
- Idaho 14
- Oklahoma 13
- Arkansas 11
- Washington 11
- Mississippi 9
- New Mexico 8
- Delaware 6
- Hawaii 5
- Louisiana 5
- West Virginia 5
- Connecticut 4
- New Jersey 4
- Iowa 3
- Nevada 3
- Kansas 2
- Missouri 2
- Oregon 2
- Alaska 1
- District of Columbia 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Cricket Wireless
Tracked chains Cricket Wireless customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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