Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 2,566 stores from 1,303 gas & auto chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. San Diego Gasoline grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Shell and Valero.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,303
Tracked stores
2,566
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. San Diego Gasoline and Shell sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 San Diego Gasoline - +14.9%
2 Shell ▲2 +11.4%
3 Valero ▲3 +11.3%
4 G&M Oil Company ▲1 +9.4%
5 Mohsen ▲1 +8.7%
6 American Tire Depot ▲2 +7.1%
7 Budget Car Rental ▲1 +7.0%
8 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲1 +6.7%
9 Chevron - +6.3%
10 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▼1 +5.8%
11 Mossy Nissan ▲1 +5.4%
12 Jiffy Lube ▲1 +5.3%
13 Exxon ▲3 +4.5%
14 Caliber Collision ▲2 +4.2%
15 Circle K ▲1 +3.7%

Store footprint

Store map

2,566 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 521 of the 2,566 stores (20%); 1,186 of the 1,303 tracked chains have a single store here. 27% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are auto repair services, against 18% across California.

Top tracked chains by store count

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