Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Pennsylvania metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 7 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 3 metro areas, and Hair Cuttery in 1 metro area. 7 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in Pennsylvania as a whole, Holiday Hair stands out in 4 metro areas, Great Clips in 2 metro areas, and Hair Cuttery in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Holiday Hair
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
Allentown, PA (PA part) 5.3× · Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 2.3× · Lancaster, PA 2× · Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA 3.2×
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Erie, PA 1.5× · Reading, PA 1.7×
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Hair Cuttery
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Philadelphia, PA (PA part) 2.9× · York-Hanover, PA 4×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in Pittsburgh, PA, 1.7× its share in Pennsylvania
Not enough tracked stores: Williamsport, PA
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Altoona, PA · Chambersburg, PA · Gettysburg, PA · Johnstown, PA · Lebanon, PA · State College, PA
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Great Clips
#1 in 7 metro areas
Lancaster, PA · Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA · York-Hanover, PA · Erie, PA · Reading, PA · Chambersburg, PA · Lebanon, PA
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Sport Clips Haircuts
#1 in 3 metro areas
Pittsburgh, PA · Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA · Altoona, PA
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SmartStyle
#1 in Johnstown, PA
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For Men Only
#1 in State College, PA
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Gettysburg Day Spa
#1 in Gettysburg, PA
Not enough tracked stores: Williamsport, PA
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon 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 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. The Hair Studio and Studio Seven sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | The Hair Studio | - | +12.2% |
| 2 | Studio Seven | ▲1 | +10.1% |
| 3 | Hair Cuttery | ▲1 | +9.4% |
| 4 | Great Clips | - | +5.7% |
| 5 | Sharkey's Cuts for Kids | ▼1 | +1.9% |
| 6 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | +1.5% |
| 7 | Holiday Hair | - | +1.3% |
| 8 | Cost Cutters | - | -0.3% |
| 9 | Fantastic Sams | - | -4.4% |
| 10 | SmartStyle | - | -6.2% |
| 11 | Philip Pelusi | - | -13.8% |
| 12 | Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids | - | -16.5% |
| 13 | Supercuts | ▼1 | -22.6% |
| 14 | HairMasters | - | -69.3% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Hair Cuttery
- Supercuts
- Holiday Hair
- SmartStyle
- Philip Pelusi
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,835 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 409 of the 1,835 stores (22%); 1,234 of the 1,288 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across the United States.
- Great Clips (151)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (62)
- Hair Cuttery (63)
- Supercuts (63)
- Holiday Hair (70)
- SmartStyle (58)
- Philip Pelusi (4)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 151
- 2 Holiday Hair 70
- 3 Hair Cuttery 63
- 4 Supercuts 63
- 5 Sport Clips Haircuts 62
- 6 SmartStyle 58
- 7 Cost Cutters 17
- 8 Fantastic Sams 12
- 9 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 5
- 10 Philip Pelusi 4
- 11 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 4
- 12 The Hair Studio 3
- 13 Tangles Salon 3
- 14 Studio Seven 3
- 15 HairMasters 3
- 16 Malcolm's Haircutters 2
- 17 Hair Gallery 2
- 18 Lords & Ladies Salon and Medical Spa 2
- 19 Platinum Salon 2
- 20 Hair Expressions 2
- 21 Bella Amici 2
- 22 Regis Salon 2
- 23 Tonic Salon 2
- 24 Mirror Mirror Salon 2
- 25 Craft Collective Salon Group 2
- 26 Expressions by Tanya 1
- 27 Salon Bella Rae 1
- 28 Cloud 9 Smoke & Exotics #3 1
- 29 Strada Hair Salon 1
- 30 South of Main Hair Studio 1
- 31 Fleurs du Mal 1
- 32 The Gentlemans Salon 1
- 33 Mockingbird Salon 1
- 34 Salon 9 1
- 35 Bucks & Babes Beauty Studio 1
- 36 Jay Michael Salon 1
- 37 Indulge Beauty Bar 1
- 38 Joseph-Jeffrey's Hair Salon 1
- 39 Salon Layne 1
- 40 Salon 13 1
- 41 Opal Hair Studio 1
- 42 Bad Hair Day 1
- 43 The Refinery Hair Studio 1
- 44 Honey Hair Co 1
- 45 The Noble Bear Salon 1
- 46 On The Fringe Hair Studio 1
- 47 Salon Enso 1
- 48 Tranquility Salon & Wellness Center 1
- 49 Looks Salon 1
- 50 The Studio CL 1
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