Metro by metro
The leading hardware store chains in every Indiana metro area
Tracked hardware store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Harbor Freight Tools leads in 5 metro areas, Ace Hardware in 4 metro areas. Against their share in Indiana as a whole, Ace Hardware stands out in 6 metro areas, True Value in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Ace Hardware
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
Indianapolis, IN 0.9× · Louisville, KY (IN part) 1.7× · Michigan City-La Porte, IN 2.2× · Elkhart-Goshen, IN 0.6× · Evansville, IN 1.2× · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (IN part) 1.7×
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True Value
Relative #1 in Chicago, IL (IN part), 3.7× its share in Indiana
Not enough tracked stores: Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (IN part) · Columbus, IN · Kokomo, IN · Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN · Muncie, IN · Terre Haute, IN
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Bloomington, IN · Fort Wayne, IN
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Harbor Freight Tools
#1 in 5 metro areas
Indianapolis, IN · Fort Wayne, IN · Elkhart-Goshen, IN · Bloomington, IN · Evansville, IN
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Ace Hardware
#1 in 4 metro areas
Chicago, IL (IN part) · Louisville, KY (IN part) · Michigan City-La Porte, IN · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (IN part)
Not enough tracked stores: Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (IN part) · Columbus, IN · Kokomo, IN · Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN · Muncie, IN · Terre Haute, IN
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hardware store 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 hardware store 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. True Value and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | True Value | ▲1 | +12.4% |
| 2 | Ace Hardware | - | +8.5% |
| 3 | Leeps Supply | - | +6.4% |
| 4 | Meny's True Value | ▲3 | +5.7% |
| 5 | Gillman Home Center | - | +5.3% |
| 6 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | +1.7% |
| 7 | Tops Home Center | ▲1 | -5.2% |
| 8 | Central Supply Company | ▼1 | -12.4% |
| 9 | Plumbers Supply Co. | ▼1 | -12.5% |
| 10 | Do It Best | - | -19.6% |
| 11 | Big C Lumber | ▼1 | -21.6% |
| 12 | Lee Supply | - | -43.4% |
| 13 | Bender Lumber | ▼2 | -70.2% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Gillman Home Center
- Lee Supply
- True Value
- Sullivan Hardware & Garden
- Tops Home Center
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
425 tracked store locations in Indiana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 158 of the 425 stores (37%); 207 of the 230 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.
- Harbor Freight Tools (42)
- Ace Hardware (74)
- Gillman Home Center (15)
- Lee Supply (6)
- True Value (19)
- Sullivan Hardware & Garden (2)
- Tops Home Center (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Ace Hardware 74
- 2 Harbor Freight Tools 42
- 3 True Value 19
- 4 Gillman Home Center 15
- 5 Bender Lumber 8
- 6 Leeps Supply 6
- 7 Lee Supply 6
- 8 Big C Lumber 5
- 9 Plumbers Supply Co. 5
- 10 Do It Best 5
- 11 Mid-City Supply 4
- 12 Central Supply Company 4
- 13 Tops Home Center 3
- 14 Meny's True Value 3
- 15 Alpha Building Center 2
- 16 Canary Outdoor Power Equipment 2
- 17 Town & Country Hardware 2
- 18 Shelby County Co-op 2
- 19 Stoll Bros. Lumber 2
- 20 Niehaus Lumber 2
- 21 Sullivan Hardware & Garden 2
- 22 Maximum Grow Gardening 1
- 23 Knapp Supply 1
- 24 L & S Lumber and Hardware Store 1
- 25 A & D Hardware 1
- 26 Healey's Home Center 1
- 27 Philly Hardware LLC 1
- 28 D & D Enterprises 1
- 29 Harrison Street Power 1
- 30 Benjamin Moore ICC Paint And Decor 1
- 31 Shortys HVAC Supplies 1
- 32 Barry Co 1
- 33 Roudebush Equipment Inc. 1
- 34 Bloomington Paint & Wallpaper 1
- 35 B & C Rental 1
- 36 Martin Ace Hardware 1
- 37 Didier Home & Hardware 1
- 38 Handy Hardware 1
- 39 Juergens Hardware & Rental 1
- 40 Brown Bros Lumber LLC 1
- 41 Hi-Way 3 Hardware Store 1
- 42 Big G Supply 1
- 43 Country Lawn & Garden 1
- 44 English Hardware 1
- 45 Grabill Hardware 1
- 46 Kleindorfer's Hardware & Variety Store 1
- 47 Suding Hardware 1
- 48 Johnson's Workbench 1
- 49 Kabelin Ace Hardware 1
- 50 Casey's Erosion & Seed Solutions 1
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