Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every North Carolina metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Lowe's Home Improvement leads in all 11 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in North Carolina as a whole, The Home Depot stands out in 6 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 6 metro areas
Charlotte, NC (NC part) 1.3× · Raleigh-Cary, NC 1.8× · Greensboro-High Point, NC 1.4× · Wilmington, NC 1.1× · Asheville, NC 1.6× · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC 1.9×
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Lowe's Home Improvement
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Winston-Salem, NC 0.9× · Fayetteville, NC 1.1× · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC 1×
Not enough tracked stores: Burlington, NC · Goldsboro, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Rocky Mount, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Greenville, NC · Jacksonville, NC
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Lowe's Home Improvement
#1 in all 11 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Burlington, NC · Goldsboro, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Rocky Mount, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to North Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in North Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in North Carolina 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 North Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in North Carolina. 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. PPG Paints and Spectrum Paint Company sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PPG Paints | ▲6 | +17.8% |
| 2 | Spectrum Paint Company | ▲2 | +10.1% |
| 3 | Lowe's Home Improvement | - | +4.0% |
| 4 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | ▲1 | +2.7% |
| 5 | The Tile Shop | ▲3 | -0.0% |
| 6 | Carter Lumber | ▲3 | -3.7% |
| 7 | Builder's Discount Center | - | -3.7% |
| 8 | Best Tile | ▲3 | -4.5% |
| 9 | The Building Center | ▲3 | -5.7% |
| 10 | The Home Depot | - | -7.7% |
| 11 | Sherwin-Williams | - | -12.2% |
| 12 | Home Outlet | - | -14.7% |
| 13 | Floor & Decor | - | -21.1% |
| 14 | Daltile | - | -23.2% |
| 15 | Talbert Building Supply | ▼3 | -32.1% |
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- The Home Depot
- Sherwin-Williams
- Builder's Discount Center
- Lowes
- Floor & Decor
- Morris-Jenkins
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
591 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 292 of the 591 stores (49%); 165 of the 203 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.
- Lowe's Home Improvement (120)
- The Home Depot (40)
- Sherwin-Williams (102)
- Builder's Discount Center (10)
- Lowes (2)
- Floor & Decor (5)
- Morris-Jenkins (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Lowe's Home Improvement 120
- 2 Sherwin-Williams 102
- 3 The Home Depot 40
- 4 PPG Paints 16
- 5 Spectrum Paint Company 14
- 6 Leslie's Pool Supplies 12
- 7 Builder's Discount Center 10
- 8 Home Outlet 9
- 9 Beacon Building Products 9
- 10 LL Flooring 8
- 11 Daltile 7
- 12 Colonial Materials 7
- 13 Guy C Lee Building Materials 6
- 14 Floor & Decor 5
- 15 The Tile Shop 5
- 16 Fishman Flooring Solutions 4
- 17 Carolina Sunrock 3
- 18 Benjamin Moore 3
- 19 Best Tile 3
- 20 Talbert Building Supply 3
- 21 Carter Lumber 3
- 22 Rug & Home 3
- 23 The Building Center 3
- 24 Kempsville Building Materials 3
- 25 Lowes 2
- 26 NC Lumber and Supply 2
- 27 Southern Concrete Materials 2
- 28 Florida Tile 2
- 29 Best Supply 2
- 30 Triad Corrugated Metal 2
- 31 Decks & Docks 2
- 32 The Stone Center 2
- 33 Coastal Equipment Rentals 2
- 34 Morrison Brothers Building Center 2
- 35 Henson Building Materials 2
- 36 Howard Building Supply 2
- 37 Byrd Tile Distributors 2
- 38 Knight Hardwood 2
- 39 Edgefield Plant & Stone 1
- 40 Christie's Lighting Gallery 1
- 41 Woodies Woodshop 1
- 42 Wood Plus Hardwood Flooring 1
- 43 Sandhills Pools & Spas 1
- 44 Tucker Materials 1
- 45 Community Lumber 1
- 46 Supply 2 Build 1
- 47 Super Cast Inc 1
- 48 Century Building Products 1
- 49 Bee Tree Hardwoods 1
- 50 Mobile Home Parts Store 1
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