Trends · data through September 2026

Hair Salons in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 404 stores from 275 hair salon chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. SmartStyle grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Great Clips and Sport Clips Haircuts.

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
275
Tracked stores
404
Consumer panel
130M+

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. SmartStyle and Great Clips sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 SmartStyle ▲1 +14.4%
2 Great Clips - +5.1%
3 Sport Clips Haircuts - +2.2%
4 Supercuts - -3.8%
5 Fantastic Sams ▼1 -72.2%
  • Great Clips
  • Sport Clips Haircuts
  • Top African Hair Braiding
  • Shine Salon
  • 8 The Salon
  • Savvy Salon and Day Spa
  • Bella Lago Salon & Spa
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

404 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 124 of the 404 stores (31%); 261 of the 275 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across North Carolina.

  • Great Clips (79)
  • Sport Clips Haircuts (32)
  • Top African Hair Braiding (1)
  • Shine Salon (1)
  • 8 The Salon (1)
  • Savvy Salon and Day Spa (1)
  • Bella Lago Salon & Spa (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Great Clips 79
  • 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 32
  • 3 Supercuts 5
  • 4 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 4
  • 5 SmartStyle 4
  • 6 Fantastic Sams 3
  • 7 Blo Blow Dry Bar 2
  • 8 Studio 9 Salon 2
  • 9 Pigtails & Crewcuts 2
  • 10 Dolce Lusso Salon and Spa 2
  • 11 Hudson Salon 2
  • 12 Drybar Shops 2
  • 13 William Henry Signature Salon 2
  • 14 Elevate Hair Salon 1
  • 15 Cut & Color Works Hair Studio 1
  • 16 Hair Expressions 1
  • 17 Fuertes Hair Studio 1
  • 18 Mery Mi Salon 1
  • 19 Spacehead Salon 1
  • 20 Platinum Hair Bar 1
  • 21 Jordanscissorhands 1
  • 22 The ONI Experience 1
  • 23 Hair Plus 1
  • 24 Aarushi Salon 1
  • 25 Bella Cole Salon 1
  • 26 Modern Classics Grooming Lounge 1
  • 27 Hair Design 49 1
  • 28 Carolina Cuts 1
  • 29 Bianucci's Salon and Spa 1
  • 30 Salon JDC 1
  • 31 Suavity Salon 1
  • 32 Emerson Joseph 1
  • 33 Denise Antonacci Salon 1
  • 34 Fern House Salon 1
  • 35 Theory Salon 1
  • 36 Shades Salon 1
  • 37 Breeze Salon 1
  • 38 Pure Reflections Salon and Boutique 1
  • 39 Evolution Hair Salon 1
  • 40 Mirror Mirror Salon 1
  • 41 The Local Salon & Parlor 1
  • 42 Salon Mane 1
  • 43 Hair By Mads 1
  • 44 Studio HZ 1
  • 45 Refinery Collective 1
  • 46 Bloom Colour Lounge 1
  • 47 Angel's Hair Salon 1
  • 48 Passion Hair Co 1
  • 49 The Velvet Mane Extension and Color Bar 1
  • 50 Classic Man Salon 1

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