Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every Michigan metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. The Home Depot leads in 4 metro areas, Menards in 3 metro areas, and Lowe's Home Improvement in 2 metro areas. Against their share in Michigan as a whole, The Home Depot stands out in 2 metro areas, Menards in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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The Home Depot
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI 1.3× · Flint, MI 1.3×
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Menards
Relative #1 in Grand Rapids, MI, 1.3× its share in Michigan
Not enough tracked stores: Battle Creek, MI · Bay City, MI · Midland, MI · Monroe, MI · Niles, MI · Saginaw, MI · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (MI part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Ann Arbor, MI · Jackson, MI · Kalamazoo-Portage, MI · Lansing-East Lansing, MI · Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI · Traverse City, MI
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The Home Depot
#1 in 4 metro areas
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Grand Rapids, MI · Flint, MI · Lansing-East Lansing, MI
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Menards
#1 in 3 metro areas
Traverse City, MI · Kalamazoo-Portage, MI · Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI
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Lowe's Home Improvement
#1 in 2 metro areas
Ann Arbor, MI · Jackson, MI
Not enough tracked stores: Battle Creek, MI · Bay City, MI · Midland, MI · Monroe, MI · Niles, MI · Saginaw, MI · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI (MI part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Michigan compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Michigan as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Michigan 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 Michigan is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Michigan. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked home improvement center 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. Carter Lumber and Menards sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Carter Lumber | ▲2 | +17.9% |
| 2 | Menards | ▲1 | +6.5% |
| 3 | Eikenhout | - | +2.4% |
| 4 | 8 Point Building Supply | ▲1 | +0.9% |
| 5 | The Home Depot | - | -1.0% |
| 6 | Sherwin-Williams | - | -3.3% |
| 7 | Lowe's Home Improvement | ▼1 | -3.5% |
| 8 | Floor & Decor | - | -8.0% |
| 9 | The Tile Shop | ▼2 | -9.4% |
| 10 | Self Serve Lumber & Home Center | - | -17.2% |
| 11 | Benjamin Moore | ▲2 | -17.3% |
| 12 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | ▼1 | -18.5% |
| 13 | LL Flooring | - | -26.0% |
| 14 | PPG Paints | - | -37.4% |
| 15 | Standard Lumber | ▼2 | -100.0% |
- The Home Depot
- Menards
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- Sherwin-Williams
- Floor & Decor
- Carter Lumber
- Gemmen's Home and Hardware
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
483 tracked store locations in Michigan. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 266 of the 483 stores (55%); 147 of the 173 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, the same share as across the United States.
- The Home Depot (72)
- Menards (34)
- Lowe's Home Improvement (46)
- Sherwin-Williams (97)
- Floor & Decor (4)
- Carter Lumber (9)
- Gemmen's Home and Hardware (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Sherwin-Williams 97
- 2 The Home Depot 72
- 3 Lowe's Home Improvement 46
- 4 Menards 34
- 5 Self Serve Lumber & Home Center 17
- 6 Carter Lumber 9
- 7 The Tile Shop 7
- 8 Leslie's Pool Supplies 6
- 9 Eikenhout 5
- 10 Floor & Decor 4
- 11 LL Flooring 4
- 12 Standard Lumber 3
- 13 PPG Paints 3
- 14 Benjamin Moore 3
- 15 Legg Lumber 3
- 16 8 Point Building Supply 3
- 17 Mortimer Lumber 2
- 18 Great Lakes Ace 2
- 19 Gypsum Supply Company 2
- 20 Daltile 2
- 21 Benson's Building Supply 2
- 22 Gulfeagle Supply 2
- 23 Ingram Wholesale Siding 2
- 24 PPG Paint Store 2
- 25 Bobcat of Lansing 2
- 26 Discount Home Improvement 2
- 27 Motawi Tileworks 1
- 28 Seven's Paint and Wallpaper 1
- 29 Carson City Lumber Co 1
- 30 Young Bros & Daley 1
- 31 Habitat Oakland ReStore 1
- 32 Honor & Onekama Building Supply 1
- 33 Addison Lumber 1
- 34 Refloor 1
- 35 Specialty Sealants Inc 1
- 36 Swartzmiller Lumber 1
- 37 ASI Building Products 1
- 38 Heat and Sweep Fireplace and Barbecue 1
- 39 Solid Rock Depot 1
- 40 Houghton Building Supply 1
- 41 The Furniture Shed 1
- 42 Woods Pools Inc 1
- 43 Port Huron Paint Company 1
- 44 Eastern Michigan Distributors 1
- 45 Autumn Ridge Stone & Landscaping Supply 1
- 46 Northeastern Wolverine Paint Supply 1
- 47 Energyst Solutions 1
- 48 Premium Hardwoods Inc. 1
- 49 Genesee Tile 1
- 50 Simple Flooring Solutions 1
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