Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in St. Louis, MO-IL

Iceflower tracks 2,131 stores from 727 gas & auto chains in St. Louis, MO-IL. Valvoline Express Care grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Circle K and Car-X Tire & Auto.

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
727
Tracked stores
2,131
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. Valvoline Express Care and Circle K sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Valvoline Express Care ▲4 +13.8%
2 Circle K - +12.6%
3 Car-X Tire & Auto ▲2 +11.5%
4 Murphy USA ▲2 +11.1%
5 Plaza Tire Service ▲1 +9.7%
6 Caliber Collision ▲3 +9.4%
7 Phillips 66 Gas - +9.1%
8 Mobil ▲1 +7.1%
9 Express Mart ▲2 +6.8%
10 Shell ▲2 +6.4%
11 Love's Travel Stop ▲3 +6.0%
12 Casey's - +4.8%
13 Exxon - +4.3%
14 FastLane - +3.9%
15 Firestone Complete Auto Care ▼1 +2.7%

Store footprint

Store map

2,131 tracked store locations in St. Louis, MO-IL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 473 of the 2,131 stores (22%); 624 of the 727 tracked chains have a single store here. 18% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are auto repair services, against 12% across Missouri.

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