Trends · data through August 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 1,590 stores from 437 gas & auto chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. QuikTrip grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Parking Spot and WhiteWater Express Car Wash.

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
437
Tracked stores
1,590
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. QuikTrip and The Parking Spot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Q QuikTrip logo QuikTrip - +18.4%
2 T The Parking Spot logo The Parking Spot ▲2 +17.1%
3 W WhiteWater Express Car Wash logo WhiteWater Express Car Wash ▲1 +15.0%
4 F Fuel Maxx - +11.5%
5 B Buc-ee's logo Buc-ee's - +9.0%
6 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +8.2%
7 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer - +7.0%
8 T Take 5 Oil Change logo Take 5 Oil Change - +6.4%
9 V Valero logo Valero ▼1 +6.1%
10 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲1 +5.1%
11 R Roadster - +4.4%
12 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲2 +4.0%
13 F Fuel Depot - +2.5%
14 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts - +2.5%
15 I iShine Express Car Wash & Detail logo iShine Express Car Wash & Detail ▲2 +2.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,590 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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