Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 2,596 stores from 1,245 gas & auto chains in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Marathon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Les Schwab Tire Center and Impark.

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
1,245
Tracked stores
2,596
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. Marathon and Les Schwab Tire Center sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Marathon ▲3 +17.4%
2 Les Schwab Tire Center ▲4 +11.4%
3 Impark ▲2 +11.0%
4 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲1 +10.7%
5 Autopia Car Wash ▲5 +10.2%
6 76 ▲1 +9.6%
7 Lexus ▲1 +8.7%
8 Central Gas ▲2 +7.5%
9 CarMax - +7.2%
10 SP+ Parking ▲1 +6.7%
11 Circle K ▲1 +6.0%
12 Chevron - +5.6%
13 Enterprise Rent-A-Car - +5.4%
14 Jiffy Lube ▲1 +5.3%
15 Gulf ▲5 +4.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,596 tracked store locations in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 631 of the 2,596 stores (24%); 1,112 of the 1,245 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are parkings, against 2% across California.

Top tracked chains by store count

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