Metro by metro
The leading art craft hobby store chains in every New Jersey metro area
Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Michaels leads in 2 metro areas, Hobby Lobby in 2 metro areas. Against their share in New Jersey as a whole, Michaels stands out in 1 metro area, Hobby Lobby in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Michaels
Relative #1 in New York, NY (NJ part), 1× its share in New Jersey
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Hobby Lobby
Relative #1 in Philadelphia, PA (NJ part), 1.3× its share in New Jersey
Not enough tracked stores: Allentown, PA (NJ part) · Vineland, NJ
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ · Trenton-Princeton, NJ
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Michaels
#1 in 2 metro areas
New York, NY (NJ part) · Trenton-Princeton, NJ
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Hobby Lobby
#1 in 2 metro areas
Philadelphia, PA (NJ part) · Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ
Not enough tracked stores: Allentown, PA (NJ part) · Vineland, NJ
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to New Jersey compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in New Jersey as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in New Jersey 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 New Jersey is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in New Jersey. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby 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. Color Me Mine and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Color Me Mine | ▲1 | +16.1% |
| 2 | Michaels | - | -1.8% |
| 3 | Paper Source | ▲1 | -2.4% |
| 4 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | ▼2 | -100.0% |
- Michaels
- Hobby Lobby
- Louis Vuitton Short Hills
- Color Me Mine
- Paper Source
- The Card Nest
- Jerry's Artist Outlet
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
188 tracked store locations in New Jersey. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 81 of the 188 stores (43%); 105 of the 111 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, against 3% across the United States.
- Michaels (39)
- Hobby Lobby (19)
- Louis Vuitton Short Hills (1)
- Color Me Mine (9)
- Paper Source (3)
- The Card Nest (1)
- Jerry's Artist Outlet (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 39
- 2 Hobby Lobby 19
- 3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 11
- 4 Color Me Mine 9
- 5 Paper Source 3
- 6 Fabric Warehouse 2
- 7 Threads Too Needlepoint 1
- 8 Liquid Games 1
- 9 Earthy Tools 1
- 10 Trains & Things 1
- 11 Supply 1
- 12 Pinspiration East Greenwich 1
- 13 Mother Knitter 1
- 14 We Make It Personal 1
- 15 Paterson Tattoo Supply 1
- 16 Fabric Mall 1
- 17 Premier Arts 1
- 18 Fantasy Bay 1
- 19 The Quilted Nest 1
- 20 Just Bead It 1
- 21 Stryker's Paint Store 1
- 22 The Geekery 1
- 23 Tandy Leather 1
- 24 Progress CCG 1
- 25 A Time To Kiln 1
- 26 Dollarazzle 1
- 27 Butala Emporium 1
- 28 Rows of PurL 1
- 29 Card Shop Near Me 1
- 30 Woolbearers 1
- 31 Stitch by Stitch 1
- 32 Unreal RC 1
- 33 Paul's Custom Awards & Trophies 1
- 34 Treasure Cove Ceramics 1
- 35 Hometown Variety 1
- 36 Beyond Yarn 1
- 37 AR Workshop Turnersville 1
- 38 The Craft 1
- 39 Colores De Mi Tierra 1
- 40 Around the Corn Art 1
- 41 Family Fun Hobbies 1
- 42 Fabric Plus 1
- 43 slimeworldnj 1
- 44 Mushrooms Studios 1
- 45 Hot Doggy Dog 1
- 46 Nimble Needle 1
- 47 Five Star Fabric House 1
- 48 Winterberries Yarn 1
- 49 Olde City Quilts 1
- 50 Mivia Fabrics 1
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