Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every Georgia metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Lowe's Home Improvement leads in 5 metro areas, The Home Depot in 3 metro areas. Against their share in Georgia as a whole, Lowe's Home Improvement stands out in 2 metro areas, The Home Depot in 1 metro area, and Sherwin-Williams in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Lowe's Home Improvement
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Augusta, GA (GA part) 1.5× · Savannah, GA 1.3×
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The Home Depot
Relative #1 in Atlanta, GA, 1.2× its share in Georgia
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Sherwin-Williams
Relative #1 in Gainesville, GA, 2.8× its share in Georgia
Not enough tracked stores: Athens-Clarke County, GA · Brunswick-St. Simons, GA · Chattanooga, TN-GA (GA part) · Hinesville, GA · Rome, GA · Valdosta, GA · Warner Robins, GA
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Albany, GA · Columbus, GA-AL (GA part) · Dalton, GA · Macon-Bibb County, GA
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Lowe's Home Improvement
#1 in 5 metro areas
Augusta, GA (GA part) · Dalton, GA · Macon-Bibb County, GA · Columbus, GA-AL (GA part) · Albany, GA
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The Home Depot
#1 in 3 metro areas
Atlanta, GA · Savannah, GA · Gainesville, GA
Not enough tracked stores: Athens-Clarke County, GA · Brunswick-St. Simons, GA · Chattanooga, TN-GA (GA part) · Hinesville, GA · Rome, GA · Valdosta, GA · Warner Robins, GA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center 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 home improvement center 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. LL Flooring and PPG Paints sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | LL Flooring | - | +7.1% |
| 2 | PPG Paints | - | +5.0% |
| 3 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | - | +3.0% |
| 4 | The Home Depot | - | +0.7% |
| 5 | Lowe's Home Improvement | - | +0.7% |
| 6 | The Tile Shop | - | -0.0% |
| 7 | Sherwin-Williams | - | -6.9% |
| 8 | First Atlanta Flooring | - | -7.0% |
| 9 | Floor & Decor | - | -9.6% |
| 10 | Home Outlet | - | -15.1% |
- The Home Depot
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- Sherwin-Williams
- Floor & Decor
- Leslie's Pool Supplies
- First Atlanta Flooring
- Belair Building Supply
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
566 tracked store locations in Georgia. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 321 of the 566 stores (57%); 198 of the 218 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, the same share as across the United States.
- The Home Depot (106)
- Lowe's Home Improvement (64)
- Sherwin-Williams (106)
- Floor & Decor (16)
- Leslie's Pool Supplies (29)
- First Atlanta Flooring (3)
- Belair Building Supply (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 The Home Depot 106
- 2 Sherwin-Williams 106
- 3 Lowe's Home Improvement 64
- 4 Leslie's Pool Supplies 29
- 5 Floor & Decor 16
- 6 PPG Paints 9
- 7 Stone's Home Centers 5
- 8 The Tile Shop 4
- 9 LL Flooring 4
- 10 Home Outlet 3
- 11 Capitol Materials 3
- 12 First Atlanta Flooring 3
- 13 Alley-Cassetty Brick 2
- 14 Live Oak Construction Supply 2
- 15 Daltile 2
- 16 Harbin Lumber Company 2
- 17 Carter Lumber 2
- 18 Senox Corporation 2
- 19 Lummus Supply Co 2
- 20 Benjamin Moore 2
- 21 Macon Supply Company Inc 1
- 22 Cleveland Wood Preserve 1
- 23 Atlanta Kubota Toro 1
- 24 Middle Georgia Tile 1
- 25 Salty Soft Wash 1
- 26 Bohannon's Builders Supply 1
- 27 Campbell Grading Company 1
- 28 Marshall Lumber Co Inc 1
- 29 Gerald Robinson's Paint & Decorating Center 1
- 30 Concrete Supply Co. 1
- 31 Bulks Landscape Supply 1
- 32 Town & Country Carpets 1
- 33 The Stone Store 1
- 34 Hwy 42 Discounts 1
- 35 Capitol Materials Coastal 1
- 36 Southern Sales & Rentals 1
- 37 M & S Distributors 1
- 38 Alliance Stone 1
- 39 Scottdale Metal Products 1
- 40 Georgia Pro Flooring 1
- 41 Florida Tile 1
- 42 Atlanta Gutter Supply 1
- 43 Hemphill Vinyl Siding & Metal Roofing Sales 1
- 44 Country Carpet 1
- 45 J&J Discount Depot 1
- 46 Alley-Cassetty Brick and Block 1
- 47 Home Improvement Outlet 1
- 48 Mackey Lumber Co 1
- 49 Tile Factory Direct Inc 1
- 50 Fowler Flemister Concrete Inc 1
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