Metro by metro
The leading art craft hobby store chains in every Pennsylvania metro area
Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Hobby Lobby leads in 5 metro areas, Michaels in 3 metro areas. Against their share in Pennsylvania as a whole, Michaels stands out in 3 metro areas, Hobby Lobby in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Michaels
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Pittsburgh, PA 1× · Philadelphia, PA (PA part) 1.3× · Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 1.1×
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Hobby Lobby
Relative #1 in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1.6× its share in Pennsylvania
Not enough tracked stores: Altoona, PA · Chambersburg, PA · Erie, PA · Gettysburg, PA · Johnstown, PA · Lebanon, PA · State College, PA · Williamsport, PA
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Allentown, PA (PA part) · Lancaster, PA · Reading, PA · York-Hanover, PA
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Hobby Lobby
#1 in 5 metro areas
Lancaster, PA · Allentown, PA (PA part) · Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA · Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA · York-Hanover, PA
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Michaels
#1 in 3 metro areas
Pittsburgh, PA · Philadelphia, PA (PA part) · Reading, PA
Not enough tracked stores: Altoona, PA · Chambersburg, PA · Erie, PA · Gettysburg, PA · Johnstown, PA · Lebanon, PA · State College, PA · Williamsport, PA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Pennsylvania compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Pennsylvania as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Pennsylvania. 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. Michaels and Paper Source sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michaels | - | +5.7% |
| 2 | Paper Source | - | +4.0% |
| 3 | Tandy Leather | - | -34.8% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- 380 Auction & Discount Warehouse
- Clubhouse Cards
- Hobby Express
- The Vault Game Store
- Blick Art Materials
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
434 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 108 of the 434 stores (25%); 269 of the 282 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Hobby Lobby (31)
- Michaels (62)
- 380 Auction & Discount Warehouse (1)
- Clubhouse Cards (1)
- Hobby Express (1)
- The Vault Game Store (1)
- Blick Art Materials (2)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 62
- 2 Hobby Lobby 31
- 3 Color Me Mine 9
- 4 Tandy Leather 3
- 5 SCG Hobby 3
- 6 Paper Source 3
- 7 Framers Market Gallery 2
- 8 Collectors Cove 2
- 9 Maido 2
- 10 Top Deck Cards and Games 2
- 11 Blick Art Materials 2
- 12 Firecracker Fabrics 1
- 13 Phoenix Art Supplies 1
- 14 Lancaster Home & Fabric 1
- 15 Toy Soldier Gallery 1
- 16 Cedar Lane Dry Goods and Quilts 1
- 17 EmTree Bath and Body 1
- 18 Lantz Homestead Quilt Barn 1
- 19 Pinspiration Bucks Mont 1
- 20 Jonathan's Spoons 1
- 21 Iron Horse Hobby House 1
- 22 Rainbow Vision Glass 1
- 23 Fox's Sew & Vac 1
- 24 Create-A-Palooza 1
- 25 Handmade Arcade 1
- 26 Alternate Universes 1
- 27 Ddrake Cards 1
- 28 Aura Ceramics & Supplies 1
- 29 Scraps & Skeins 1
- 30 The Ceramic Shop 1
- 31 Half Moon Handwerks 1
- 32 Simply Stashing Fabric and Quilts 1
- 33 Ewe and Me Yarn Shop 1
- 34 Serendipity Stitch 1
- 35 Monkey Business! Scrapbook Lounge 1
- 36 Modellbahn Ott Hobbies 1
- 37 The Clay Cafe 1
- 38 Artsy Doodle Craft Studio 1
- 39 Homesewn 1
- 40 Brady's Train Outlet 1
- 41 Fabricator's Forge 1
- 42 Jackal Tactical Airsoft 1
- 43 Poke-A-Nose Pottery 1
- 44 The Prancing Pig 1
- 45 The Kilted Kiln 1
- 46 Oakmont Yarn Collaborative 1
- 47 Yarn Bits and Bobs 1
- 48 Candles And Supplies 1
- 49 Fabric Mart 1
- 50 Sewickley Yarns 1
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