Metro by metro
The leading hardware store chains in every Louisiana metro area
Tracked hardware store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Harbor Freight Tools leads in all 5 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Louisiana as a whole, Harbor Freight Tools stands out in 2 metro areas, Ace Hardware in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Harbor Freight Tools
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Baton Rouge, LA 0.9× · Monroe, LA 0.9×
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Ace Hardware
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
New Orleans-Metairie, LA 1× · Slidell, LA 1.7×
Not enough tracked stores: Alexandria, LA · Hammond, LA · Houma, LA · Lafayette, LA · Lake Charles, LA
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
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Harbor Freight Tools
#1 in all 5 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Alexandria, LA · Hammond, LA · Houma, LA · Lafayette, LA · Lake Charles, LA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hardware store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Louisiana compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Louisiana as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Louisiana 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 Louisiana is light gray. 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. Home Hardware Center and Harbor Freight Tools sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Hardware Center | - | +8.0% |
| 2 | Harbor Freight Tools | - | -2.8% |
- Harbor Freight Tools
- Ace Hardware
- Jeanfreau's Hardware & Supply
- Mike's Hardware
- Home Hardware Center
- True Value
- Ivey Lumber Company
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
150 tracked store locations in Louisiana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 69 of the 150 stores (46%); 82 of the 86 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are hardware stores, against 4% across the United States.
- Harbor Freight Tools (33)
- Ace Hardware (16)
- Jeanfreau's Hardware & Supply (1)
- Mike's Hardware (1)
- Home Hardware Center (11)
- True Value (8)
- Ivey Lumber Company (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Harbor Freight Tools 33
- 2 Ace Hardware 16
- 3 Home Hardware Center 11
- 4 True Value 8
- 5 Budden's Store 1
- 6 Kerry's Hardware 1
- 7 Last Island Hardware 1
- 8 Gayles Hardware 1
- 9 K & K Hardware & Marine 1
- 10 JW Hardware & Lumber 1
- 11 Baldwin-Taylor Hardware 1
- 12 Larry's Hardware, Inc. 1
- 13 Maxwell True Value Hardware & Lumber 1
- 14 Port Allen Hardware & Supplies 1
- 15 Clement Hardware & Variety 1
- 16 Hardware Express 1
- 17 Ivey's Building Materials Center 1
- 18 Pine Hills Feed and Hardware 1
- 19 Duke's Hardware and Feed 1
- 20 Bastrop Feed & Seed Hardware 1
- 21 Lapalco Hardware and Brake Tags 1
- 22 Home and Ranch Hardware 1
- 23 Francis Hardware 1
- 24 Sugarland Hardware 1
- 25 Industrial Service and Supply 1
- 26 Addis Hardware 1
- 27 Grant Hardware 1
- 28 Singer Supply 1
- 29 Chalmette Hardware Home Center 1
- 30 Campbell's Supply 1
- 31 Dawsey Hardware 1
- 32 Premier Ace Hardware 1
- 33 Stine Home + Yard 1
- 34 Brookstown Hardware 1
- 35 Bauer Hardware & Furniture 1
- 36 Avoyelles Outdoors 1
- 37 PSC Supply & Hardware 1
- 38 Barksdale Hardware Inc 1
- 39 Barber's Hardware 1
- 40 Thibodaux Store 1
- 41 Melaco Sisters Hardware & Supplies 1
- 42 Tommy's Specialty Hardware 1
- 43 Greenwood Feed Seed & Hardware 1
- 44 Farrel's Hardware and Appliance 1
- 45 Vernon's Hardware 1
- 46 Galvez Hardware & Outdoor Cooking 1
- 47 Circle A Hardware 1
- 48 Pennington's Hardware 1
- 49 Knifeworks 1
- 50 Livonia Lumber & Farm Supplies 1
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