Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Maryland metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Hair Cuttery leads in 3 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 1 metro area, and Great Clips in 1 metro area. 4 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in Maryland as a whole, Hair Cuttery stands out in 2 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 2 metro areas, and Great Clips in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Hair Cuttery
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Washington, DC (MD part) 1.1× · Hagerstown, MD (MD part) 2.1×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Baltimore, MD 1.3× · Lexington Park, MD 2.5×
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in Philadelphia, PA (MD part), 6.5× its share in Maryland
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Salisbury, MD
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Hair Cuttery
#1 in 3 metro areas
Baltimore, MD · Washington, DC (MD part) · Hagerstown, MD (MD part)
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About Faces Day Spa & Salon
#1 in Salisbury, MD
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Maryland compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Maryland as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Maryland 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 Maryland is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Maryland. 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. Supercuts and Bubbles Salons sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Supercuts | ▲1 | +18.8% |
| 2 | Bubbles Salons | - | +9.9% |
| 3 | Great Clips | - | +8.5% |
| 4 | Hair Cuttery | - | +6.0% |
| 5 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | -0.4% |
| 6 | Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids | - | -1.8% |
| 7 | SmartStyle | ▼1 | -19.3% |
- Hair Cuttery
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Great Clips
- Nadine's Hair Braiding
- Bubbles Salons
- S-Kape Salon and Spa
- The Spa On West Main
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
874 tracked store locations in Maryland. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 183 of the 874 stores (21%); 653 of the 675 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across the United States.
- Hair Cuttery (89)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (41)
- Great Clips (40)
- Nadine's Hair Braiding (1)
- Bubbles Salons (9)
- S-Kape Salon and Spa (1)
- The Spa On West Main (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Hair Cuttery 89
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 41
- 3 Great Clips 40
- 4 Bubbles Salons 9
- 5 SmartStyle 4
- 6 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 4
- 7 Supercuts 3
- 8 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 3
- 9 Sefa Hair Braiding 2
- 10 Holiday Hair 2
- 11 FX Studios 2
- 12 Salon Suna 2
- 13 Freeman's Barber Shop 2
- 14 Albertine Couture Hair Salon 2
- 15 Bubbles 2
- 16 About Faces Day Spa & Salon 2
- 17 Salon 809 2
- 18 Alter Ego Haircolor and Design Studio 1
- 19 Headline Hair Salon 1
- 20 Fringe Salon and Spa 1
- 21 Salon Sixteen 1
- 22 Hair by Moses 1
- 23 Miles Barbershop 1
- 24 Tease Salon 1
- 25 All About You Family Hair Salon 1
- 26 The Artist's Palette Hair Salon and Gallery 1
- 27 Luxuria Salon & Spa 1
- 28 Elizabeth Claire Salon 1
- 29 Kay-Z African Hair Braiding 1
- 30 S-Kape Salon and Spa 1
- 31 Studio Thirty-Six 1
- 32 Nadine's Hair Braiding 1
- 33 Here's Clyde's Family Hair Care 1
- 34 Beauty Health & Hair 1
- 35 Hair By Mardi 1
- 36 Style Station 1
- 37 Lluminaire Salon 1
- 38 Bliss Salon and Spa 1
- 39 Head Rush Studio LLC 1
- 40 Uno The Salon 1
- 41 Salon Laurie 1
- 42 David's Salon 1
- 43 Pigtails & Crewcuts 1
- 44 Zoraida Dominican Salon 1
- 45 Salon Central 1
- 46 Rafet's Hairmasters 1
- 47 Natural Blessings Salon 1
- 48 Atelier Salon Collective 1
- 49 Neutre Aveda Salon & Spa 1
- 50 Christina Josephs Salon Studio 1
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