Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 470 stores from 251 gas & auto chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Sheetz grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Amoco and O'Reilly Auto Parts.

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
251
Tracked stores
470
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Sheetz and Amoco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sheetz - +17.8%
2 Amoco ▲2 +10.1%
3 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲2 +8.1%
4 Murphy USA - +1.4%
5 Circle K - -0.7%
6 Shell - -1.4%
7 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▼1 -2.3%
8 Advance Auto Parts ▲1 -2.8%
9 U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲1 -3.6%
10 Exxon - -3.8%
11 AutoZone - -3.9%
12 Refuel - -4.7%
13 76 ▲1 -5.2%
14 Chapel Hill Tire ▼1 -5.8%
15 NAPA Auto Parts - -10.1%

Store footprint

Store map

470 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 124 of the 470 stores (26%); 217 of the 251 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car dealers, against 8% across North Carolina.

Top tracked chains by store count

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