Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Dubuque, IA

Iceflower tracks 515 stores from 433 retail and consumer chains in Dubuque, IA. Dollar General grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hy-Vee and Casey's.

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
433
Tracked stores
515
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Dollar General and Hy-Vee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dollar General ▲1 +13.4%
2 Hy-Vee - +11.4%
3 Casey's - +5.6%
4 Dollar Tree - +5.4%
5 Dairy Queen ▼1 +5.3%
6 Jimmy John's ▲1 +4.2%
7 McDonald's - +0.8%
8 Walgreens - -3.5%
9 Kwik Stop - -4.3%
10 Happy Joe's Pizza ▼1 -6.7%
11 Fareway - -7.4%
12 Subway ▲1 -14.0%
13 BP ▼1 -29.0%

Store footprint

Store map

515 tracked store locations in Dubuque, IA, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 35 of the 515 stores (7%); 392 of the 433 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked stores here are in health & beauty, against 15% across Iowa.

Top tracked chains by store count

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