Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Indiana metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 10 metro areas, Hair Cuttery in 1 metro area, and Hair Fitness in 1 metro area. Against their share in Indiana as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 8 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 1 metro area, and Hair Cuttery in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 8 metro areas
Fort Wayne, IN 0.6× · Evansville, IN 1.3× · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (IN part) 0.9× · Columbus, IN 1.5× · Elkhart-Goshen, IN 1.2× · Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN 0.8× · Terre Haute, IN 1.9× · Bloomington, IN 1.8×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in Indianapolis, IN, 1.4× its share in Indiana
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Hair Cuttery
Relative #1 in Chicago, IL (IN part), 9.6× its share in Indiana
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Fantastic Sams
Relative #1 in Louisville, KY (IN part), 4.8× its share in Indiana
Not enough tracked stores: Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (IN part) · Kokomo, IN · Muncie, IN
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Michigan City-La Porte, IN
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Great Clips
#1 in 10 metro areas
Indianapolis, IN · Fort Wayne, IN · Evansville, IN · Louisville, KY (IN part) · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (IN part) · Columbus, IN · Elkhart-Goshen, IN · Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN · Terre Haute, IN · Bloomington, IN
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Hair Fitness
#1 in Michigan City-La Porte, IN
Not enough tracked stores: Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (IN part) · Kokomo, IN · Muncie, IN
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Indiana compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Indiana as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Indiana 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 Indiana is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Indiana. 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. Studio K and Hair Cuttery sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Studio K | ▲1 | +5.1% |
| 2 | Hair Cuttery | ▲1 | +3.6% |
| 3 | Drybar Shops | ▲1 | +2.2% |
| 4 | Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids | - | 0.0% |
| 5 | Great Clips | - | -0.8% |
| 6 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | -2.4% |
| 7 | Supercuts | ▲1 | -4.8% |
| 8 | Sharkey's Cuts for Kids | ▼2 | -10.2% |
| 9 | Famous Hair | - | -11.5% |
| 10 | Fantastic Sams | ▼1 | -15.8% |
| 11 | SmartStyle | ▼1 | -24.2% |
| 12 | Cost Cutters | - | -27.0% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Hair Cuttery
- Fantastic Sams
- Posh Salon & Day Spa
- Pin-Up Curls
- In Touch Salon
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
850 tracked store locations in Indiana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 285 of the 850 stores (34%); 481 of the 515 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across the United States.
- Great Clips (176)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (57)
- Hair Cuttery (14)
- Fantastic Sams (15)
- Posh Salon & Day Spa (1)
- Pin-Up Curls (1)
- In Touch Salon (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 176
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 57
- 3 SmartStyle 23
- 4 Fantastic Sams 15
- 5 Hair Cuttery 14
- 6 Supercuts 13
- 7 Cost Cutters 10
- 8 Famous Hair 4
- 9 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 4
- 10 Drybar Shops 3
- 11 Studio K 3
- 12 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 3
- 13 Revolution Salon 2
- 14 Salon G 2
- 15 Black Orchid Barbers 2
- 16 Salon 6 2
- 17 The Voom Room 2
- 18 Hair Express 2
- 19 Fringe Salon 2
- 20 The Studio: A Hair Salon 2
- 21 Salon Rouge 2
- 22 Jagged Edge 2
- 23 EM Studio Salon 2
- 24 Mirror Mirror Salon 2
- 25 Studio M 2
- 26 Blo Blow Dry Bar 2
- 27 Image Hair Salon 2
- 28 Rosebuds Salon & Spa 2
- 29 Serenity Salon & Spa 2
- 30 The Electric Owl 1
- 31 Salon 574 1
- 32 Exclusives Salon & Spa 1
- 33 The Strand 1
- 34 Hair by Jen 1
- 35 Haze Beauty Bar 1
- 36 University Hair Stylist 1
- 37 Salon Sixty-Six 1
- 38 Deena's Hairstyling 1
- 39 Texture 24 1
- 40 The Prather Practice 1
- 41 The Professional Edge 1
- 42 Elements Salon Spa 1
- 43 Blissful Beauty Salon 1
- 44 Beauty by Amy 1
- 45 Exist Salon & Spa 1
- 46 WK Hair Studio 1
- 47 Cosmotique Salon & Spa 1
- 48 Pure Concepts Salon 1
- 49 The Basement Hair Studio 1
- 50 Shades of Honey Salon 1
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