Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Iowa metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 5 metro areas, Cost Cutters in 1 metro area. Against their share in Iowa as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 3 metro areas, Cost Cutters in 1 metro area, and Supercuts in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Cedar Rapids, IA 1× · Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA 1.1× · Davenport, IA (IA part) 1.2×
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Cost Cutters
Relative #1 in Iowa City, IA, 1.2× its share in Iowa
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Supercuts
Relative #1 in Des Moines, IA, 1.6× its share in Iowa
Not enough tracked stores: Dubuque, IA · Omaha, NE-IA (IA part) · Sioux City, IA-NE-SD (IA part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Ames, IA
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Great Clips
#1 in 5 metro areas
Des Moines, IA · Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA · Ames, IA · Iowa City, IA · Davenport, IA (IA part)
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Cost Cutters
#1 in Cedar Rapids, IA
Not enough tracked stores: Dubuque, IA · Omaha, NE-IA (IA part) · Sioux City, IA-NE-SD (IA part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Iowa compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Iowa as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Iowa 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 Iowa is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Iowa. 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. Great Clips and Supercuts sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Great Clips | - | +19.3% |
| 2 | Supercuts | - | +4.4% |
| 3 | Cost Cutters | - | +4.0% |
| 4 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | -4.0% |
| 5 | SmartStyle | - | -23.7% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Cost Cutters
- Supercuts
- Anani Salon & Spa
- Jiva Salonspa
- Signatures Salon & Day Spa
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
323 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 131 of the 323 stores (41%); 186 of the 194 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across the United States.
- Great Clips (62)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (20)
- Cost Cutters (23)
- Supercuts (12)
- Anani Salon & Spa (1)
- Jiva Salonspa (1)
- Signatures Salon & Day Spa (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 62
- 2 Cost Cutters 23
- 3 Sport Clips Haircuts 20
- 4 SmartStyle 14
- 5 Supercuts 12
- 6 Valor & Violet 2
- 7 The Salon 2
- 8 Custom Cuts 2
- 9 Hair Junction 1
- 10 BLAZE Coralville 1
- 11 Waveland Barber/Stylist 1
- 12 Studio 811 1
- 13 Cutting Edge 1
- 14 Pamela Vigil Salon 1
- 15 Sunny's Son's Salon 1
- 16 Moods Salon + Spa 1
- 17 M & Co Hair Space 1
- 18 Salon Extasy 1
- 19 Scissor Design 1
- 20 Style by Desiree Salon and Boutique 1
- 21 New Styles 1
- 22 Tangles Salon 1
- 23 Salon Divas 1
- 24 Amara 1
- 25 The Niche Salon 1
- 26 Adriana's Salon 1
- 27 Salon U 1
- 28 Amanda Schwendinger 1
- 29 Beek's Barber Shop 1
- 30 Lee Youngs Hairstyling 1
- 31 The Hairloom Salon and Spa 1
- 32 Anani Salon & Spa 1
- 33 Rev Hair Studio 1
- 34 Modern Reflections 1
- 35 LH Salon 1
- 36 Pure Luxe International Salon & Spa 1
- 37 Hypsie Salon Spa Cosmetics 1
- 38 Tommy's Salon 1
- 39 Studio S 1
- 40 Hair by Tiffany Terzo 1
- 41 Uptown Hair Marion 1
- 42 Hair Studio 1
- 43 Blush Salon 1
- 44 Shear Meadows Hair Studio 1
- 45 Salon lhg 1
- 46 Mane Attraction 1
- 47 Hami’s Fabulous Hair Braiding 1
- 48 The Hive Inc. 1
- 49 The Purple Door 1
- 50 Beauty Is 1
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