Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every New Jersey metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. The Home Depot leads in all 4 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in New Jersey as a whole, The Home Depot stands out in 3 metro areas, Lowe's Home Improvement in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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The Home Depot
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
New York, NY (NJ part) 1.1× · Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ 0.9× · Trenton-Princeton, NJ 1×
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Lowe's Home Improvement
Relative #1 in Philadelphia, PA (NJ part), 1.3× its share in New Jersey
Not enough tracked stores: Allentown, PA (NJ part) · Vineland, NJ
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The Home Depot
#1 in all 4 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Allentown, PA (NJ part) · Vineland, NJ
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center 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 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 The Home Depot sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Carter Lumber | - | +3.7% |
| 2 | The Home Depot | - | +1.1% |
| 3 | Lowe's Home Improvement | - | -1.2% |
| 4 | Avalon Flooring | - | -9.5% |
| 5 | Sherwin-Williams | - | -15.5% |
| 6 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | - | -17.0% |
| 7 | The Tile Shop | - | -17.8% |
| 8 | Floor & Decor | - | -22.2% |
| 9 | Extech Building Materials | - | -32.7% |
- The Home Depot
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- Floor & Decor
- Sherwin-Williams
- Avalon Flooring
- Abbe Lumber Corporation
- Leslie's Pool Supplies
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
372 tracked store locations in New Jersey. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 237 of the 372 stores (64%); 94 of the 111 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, against 4% across the United States.
- The Home Depot (69)
- Lowe's Home Improvement (41)
- Floor & Decor (12)
- Sherwin-Williams (89)
- Avalon Flooring (9)
- Abbe Lumber Corporation (1)
- Leslie's Pool Supplies (26)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Sherwin-Williams 89
- 2 The Home Depot 69
- 3 Lowe's Home Improvement 41
- 4 Leslie's Pool Supplies 26
- 5 Floor & Decor 12
- 6 Avalon Flooring 9
- 7 The Tile Shop 6
- 8 Benjamin Moore 5
- 9 Carter Lumber 4
- 10 Extech Building Materials 3
- 11 Builders' General Supply Co. 2
- 12 Mediterranean Tile 2
- 13 ServicePlus Home Warranty 2
- 14 Garden State Tile 2
- 15 Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery 2
- 16 Universal Supply Co. 2
- 17 Tuckerton Lumber Company 2
- 18 Frank Webb Home 1
- 19 Paradise Pool & Spa 1
- 20 Tiled Expressions Tile Showroom 1
- 21 Atlantic Masonry Supply 1
- 22 Spotlight Net 1
- 23 North Brunswick Construction Materials 1
- 24 Medford Cedar Products 1
- 25 Sparkle Pools 1
- 26 Action Supply 1
- 27 Sealant Depot 1
- 28 Mendham Plywood and Building Products 1
- 29 Morris Brick and Stone Co. 1
- 30 Gracetown Lumber Co. 1
- 31 Cherry Hill Rugs 1
- 32 Jennifer Beck 1
- 33 Harry's Plumbing and Heating Supply 1
- 34 Norton Paint 1
- 35 General Floor 1
- 36 Powerco Inc 1
- 37 Reuther Manufacturing LLC 1
- 38 Wicki Wholesale Stone, Inc. 1
- 39 Chick's Block Company 1
- 40 Florence Sons Landscape & Mason Supply 1
- 41 Passaic Metal and Building Supplies Co 1
- 42 Ideal Tile 1
- 43 Corrado's Garden Center 1
- 44 Milford Flooring 1
- 45 One Stop Hardware 1
- 46 Pittsgrove Builders 1
- 47 The Closet Company 1
- 48 New York Stone 1
- 49 American Stone 1
- 50 Care Plus NJ 1
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