Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Georgia metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 7 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 3 metro areas, and Matthews And Company Salon in 1 metro area. Against their share in Georgia as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 6 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
Atlanta, GA 0.8× · Columbus, GA-AL (GA part) 1× · Gainesville, GA 0.8× · Athens-Clarke County, GA 1.5× · Macon-Bibb County, GA 1.8× · Warner Robins, GA 2.1×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Augusta, GA (GA part) 1.9× · Savannah, GA 1.9×
Not enough tracked stores: Albany, GA · Dalton, GA · Hinesville, GA · Rome, GA
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Brunswick-St. Simons, GA · Chattanooga, TN-GA (GA part) · Valdosta, GA
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Great Clips
#1 in 7 metro areas
Atlanta, GA · Savannah, GA · Columbus, GA-AL (GA part) · Athens-Clarke County, GA · Macon-Bibb County, GA · Warner Robins, GA · Valdosta, GA
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Sport Clips Haircuts
#1 in 3 metro areas
Augusta, GA (GA part) · Chattanooga, TN-GA (GA part) · Brunswick-St. Simons, GA
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Matthews And Company Salon
#1 in Gainesville, GA
Not enough tracked stores: Albany, GA · Dalton, GA · Hinesville, GA · Rome, GA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Georgia compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Georgia as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Georgia and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Georgia is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Georgia. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
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 Van Michael Salon sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | SmartStyle | - | +12.5% |
| 2 | Van Michael Salon | - | +9.0% |
| 3 | Great Clips | - | +5.0% |
| 4 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | +4.5% |
| 5 | Drybar Shops | ▲1 | +3.6% |
| 6 | Cuts by Us | - | +1.4% |
| 7 | Cutting Edge | ▲1 | -1.8% |
| 8 | Pigtails & Crewcuts | - | -4.5% |
| 9 | Bella Salon | ▲1 | -5.9% |
| 10 | Supercuts | - | -10.9% |
| 11 | The Hair Studio | ▲1 | -16.2% |
| 12 | Salon V | ▼4 | -42.3% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Van Michael Salon
- Salon 124
- Supercuts
- Pure Hair Factory
- Tres Beau Augusta
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,221 tracked store locations in Georgia. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 302 of the 1,221 stores (25%); 826 of the 869 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, the same share as across the United States.
- Great Clips (201)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (59)
- Van Michael Salon (4)
- Salon 124 (2)
- Supercuts (20)
- Pure Hair Factory (1)
- Tres Beau Augusta (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 201
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 59
- 3 Supercuts 20
- 4 SmartStyle 14
- 5 Pigtails & Crewcuts 8
- 6 Cuts by Us 5
- 7 Dominican Hair Salon 5
- 8 Van Michael Salon 4
- 9 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 4
- 10 Bella Salon 3
- 11 The Hair Studio 3
- 12 Cutting Edge 3
- 13 Drybar Shops 3
- 14 Fantastic Sams 3
- 15 Salon V 3
- 16 Brooklyn Dominican Hair Salon 2
- 17 True Hair 2
- 18 Salon Red 2
- 19 Hair By Maggie 2
- 20 Blush Salon 2
- 21 Tangles Salon 2
- 22 Fifth And Mae Salons 2
- 23 Salon 124 2
- 24 Ada's Real Dominican Hair Salon 2
- 25 Sweet & Sassy 2
- 26 40 Volume Salon 2
- 27 Princeton Salon and Spa Buford 2
- 28 Great Cuts 2
- 29 Salon 2
- 30 Zapien's 1
- 31 Hawa African Hair Braiding 1
- 32 Abi Makeup and Hair 1
- 33 New Hair Boutique Salon 1
- 34 Nana's Hair Braiding 1
- 35 VIP Braids Salon 1
- 36 Pageboy Salon 1
- 37 Carter Barnes On Paces 1
- 38 Elixir Hair Studio 1
- 39 Sona's Salon and Gifts 1
- 40 American Salon & Spa 1
- 41 Salon 53 West 1
- 42 Rooted Salon 1
- 43 Washington Square Studio 1
- 44 The Industry Salon 1
- 45 Lisa's Hair Salon 1
- 46 Theory Salon 1
- 47 Hair Smithsonian 1
- 48 Go Sleek Hair Co. 1
- 49 Lux Barber Shop 1
- 50 Brash Hairdressers 1
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