Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Ohio metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 11 metro areas, Supercuts in 1 metro area. Against their share in Ohio as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 4 metro areas, Supercuts in 2 metro areas, and Cost Cutters in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
Cleveland, OH 0.7× · Columbus, OH 1.1× · Dayton, OH 1.3× · Springfield, OH 1.7×
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Supercuts
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Toledo, OH 3× · Youngstown-Warren, OH 3.1×
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Cost Cutters
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Akron, OH 3.2× · Canton-Massillon, OH 7.1×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (OH part), 1.4× its share in Ohio
Not enough tracked stores: Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH (OH part) · Mansfield, OH · Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH (OH part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Lima, OH · Sandusky, OH · Wheeling, WV-OH (OH part)
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Great Clips
#1 in 11 metro areas
Cleveland, OH · Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (OH part) · Columbus, OH · Dayton, OH · Akron, OH · Toledo, OH · Canton-Massillon, OH · Youngstown-Warren, OH · Springfield, OH · Wheeling, WV-OH (OH part) · Lima, OH
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Supercuts
#1 in Sandusky, OH
Not enough tracked stores: Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH (OH part) · Mansfield, OH · Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH (OH part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Ohio compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Ohio as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Ohio 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 Ohio is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Ohio. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked hair salon 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. Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids and Hair Plus sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids | ▲1 | +13.2% |
| 2 | Hair Plus | ▲2 | +10.9% |
| 3 | Reflections Salon | ▲2 | +8.6% |
| 4 | Fantastic Sams | ▲2 | +4.2% |
| 5 | Holiday Hair | - | +4.0% |
| 6 | Great Clips | - | +3.3% |
| 7 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | +2.1% |
| 8 | Supercuts | - | +0.7% |
| 9 | Square One Salon and Spa | ▼1 | -1.1% |
| 10 | Sharkey's Cuts for Kids | ▲1 | -1.1% |
| 11 | Cost Cutters | - | -1.6% |
| 12 | Halo Salon | - | -3.8% |
| 13 | Drybar Shops | - | -21.5% |
| 14 | Gloss Salon | ▼2 | -23.6% |
| 15 | SmartStyle | ▼1 | -31.8% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Mitchell's Salon & Day Spa
- Supercuts
- Kenneth's Hair Salon
- Cost Cutters
- Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,574 tracked store locations in Ohio. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 524 of the 1,574 stores (33%); 904 of the 954 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across the United States.
- Great Clips (315)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (76)
- Mitchell's Salon & Day Spa (4)
- Supercuts (60)
- Kenneth's Hair Salon (2)
- Cost Cutters (46)
- Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids (12)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 315
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 76
- 3 Supercuts 60
- 4 Cost Cutters 46
- 5 Holiday Hair 27
- 6 SmartStyle 26
- 7 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 12
- 8 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 7
- 9 Fantastic Sams 5
- 10 Tangles Salon 4
- 11 Mitchell's Salon & Day Spa 4
- 12 Cutting Edge 4
- 13 Drybar Shops 3
- 14 Square One Salon and Spa 3
- 15 Reflections Salon 3
- 16 Hair Plus 3
- 17 Halo Salon 3
- 18 Gloss Salon 3
- 19 Lux Salon 2
- 20 Oscar Giovanni Salon & Spa 2
- 21 Studio M 2
- 22 Tease Salon 2
- 23 Bishops Cuts/Color 2
- 24 The Color Bar 2
- 25 Bangs Salon & Spa 2
- 26 The Blowout Bar 2
- 27 Kenadi Hair Studio 2
- 28 Square One Salon & Spa 2
- 29 Stella & Shay Beauty Bar 2
- 30 330 Hair Studio 2
- 31 Revive Salon 2
- 32 Kenneth's Hair Salon 2
- 33 Scott Talbot Salonspa 2
- 34 The Salon 2
- 35 Head Quarters Salon and Spa 2
- 36 Charles Scott Salons & Spas 2
- 37 Legacy Hair Studio 2
- 38 Bella Donna Salon and Spa 1
- 39 Bella Capelli Sanctuario 1
- 40 Calla Hair Salon 1
- 41 W Salon Spa and Wine Bar 1
- 42 Salon 1
- 43 Bella Toccare de Spa & Salon 1
- 44 Cuts N Curls For Boys & Girls 1
- 45 Studio MZ Hair Design 1
- 46 Jems Hair & Nail Salon LLC 1
- 47 Exodus Hair 1
- 48 Locks By Cactus Hair Salon 1
- 49 Salon Apothecary 1
- 50 Castilian and Co 1
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