Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Lynchburg, VA

Iceflower tracks 280 stores from 166 gas & auto chains in Lynchburg, VA. Sheetz grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Murphy USA and AutoZone.

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
166
Tracked stores
280
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. Sheetz and Murphy USA sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sheetz - +15.8%
2 Murphy USA - +15.3%
3 AutoZone - +7.1%
4 Shell - +4.8%
5 O'Reilly Auto Parts - +3.9%
6 Citgo ▲1 +3.6%
7 Advance Auto Parts - +3.4%
8 76 - -1.4%
9 Exxon - -4.5%
10 Sunoco - -7.0%
11 BP - -10.7%
12 Marathon - -13.8%
13 Jiffy Lube ▼1 -17.6%
14 Zips Car Wash - -61.7%

Store footprint

Store map

280 tracked store locations in Lynchburg, VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 68 of the 280 stores (24%); 146 of the 166 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, against 4% across Virginia.

Top tracked chains by store count

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