Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every New York metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. The Home Depot leads in 5 metro areas, Lowe's Home Improvement in 4 metro areas. Against their share in New York as a whole, The Home Depot stands out in 4 metro areas, Lowe's Home Improvement in 3 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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The Home Depot
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
New York, NY (NY part) 1.6× · Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY 1.3× · Rochester, NY 1.2× · Kiryas Joel, NY 1.5×
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Lowe's Home Improvement
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 1.1× · Syracuse, NY 1.1× · Utica-Rome, NY 1.6×
Not enough tracked stores: Elmira, NY · Glens Falls, NY · Ithaca, NY · Kingston, NY
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Binghamton, NY · Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
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The Home Depot
#1 in 5 metro areas
New York, NY (NY part) · Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY · Rochester, NY · Kiryas Joel, NY · Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
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Lowe's Home Improvement
#1 in 4 metro areas
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY · Syracuse, NY · Utica-Rome, NY · Binghamton, NY
Not enough tracked stores: Elmira, NY · Glens Falls, NY · Ithaca, NY · Kingston, NY
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to New York compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in New York as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in New York 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 York is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in New York. 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. hep sales and Lowe's Home Improvement sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | hep sales | - | +19.0% |
| 2 | Lowe's Home Improvement | - | +3.8% |
| 3 | The Home Depot | - | -2.1% |
| 4 | Home Outlet | - | -2.1% |
| 5 | Tarson Pools & Spas | - | -2.3% |
| 6 | Sherwin-Williams | - | -5.9% |
| 7 | Floor & Decor | - | -6.3% |
| 8 | Best Tile | - | -12.1% |
| 9 | Gui's Lumber | - | -15.4% |
| 10 | White's Lumber | - | -18.5% |
| 11 | Brooklyn | - | -24.4% |
| 12 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | - | -27.5% |
| 13 | Riverhead Building Supply | - | -29.9% |
- The Home Depot
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- Sherwin-Williams
- Home Outlet
- White's Lumber
- Floor & Decor
- Riverhead Building Supply
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
515 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 269 of the 515 stores (52%); 174 of the 200 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 (102)
- Lowe's Home Improvement (70)
- Sherwin-Williams (64)
- Home Outlet (14)
- White's Lumber (4)
- Floor & Decor (10)
- Riverhead Building Supply (6)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 The Home Depot 102
- 2 Lowe's Home Improvement 70
- 3 Sherwin-Williams 64
- 4 Leslie's Pool Supplies 19
- 5 Home Outlet 14
- 6 Floor & Decor 10
- 7 Wallauer Paint & Design Center 8
- 8 Riverhead Building Supply 6
- 9 hep sales 5
- 10 White's Lumber 4
- 11 Tarson Pools & Spas 4
- 12 Gui's Lumber 3
- 13 Brooklyn 3
- 14 Best Tile 3
- 15 The Tile Shop 3
- 16 Len-Co Lumber 3
- 17 Williams Lumber 2
- 18 LL Flooring 2
- 19 Adirondack Basement Systems 2
- 20 Four Seasons Sunrooms 2
- 21 Frank Webb Home 2
- 22 Carpet One Floor & Home 2
- 23 Core Building Materials 2
- 24 Cranesville Block Co., Inc. 2
- 25 Ward Lumber 2
- 26 Herrington's 2
- 27 Dain's Lumber 1
- 28 Heights Lumber Center, Inc. 1
- 29 Pittsford Lumber & Woodshop 1
- 30 Wilcox Lumber Do it Center 1
- 31 Memphis Hardwood Lumber 1
- 32 Old Country Ceramic Tile 1
- 33 Rim Plumbing & Heating Supply 1
- 34 Watkins Lumber 1
- 35 Marathon Roofing Products 1
- 36 Turner Lumber Co 1
- 37 Mega Building Supply 1
- 38 Criterion Roofers 1
- 39 Swim King 1
- 40 Beckerle Lumber 1
- 41 Upstate Rug Supply 1
- 42 Pleasant Valley Stone 1
- 43 Certified Lumber 1
- 44 Builder's Bargain Outlet 1
- 45 Bicknell Building Supply 1
- 46 Bryant's Lumber 1
- 47 Clopay Building Products 1
- 48 National Floor Center 1
- 49 George Lumber and Building Materials 1
- 50 Evans and Whites 1
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