Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Tennessee 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, SmartStyle in 1 metro area. Against their share in Tennessee as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 6 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
Knoxville, TN 1.1× · Chattanooga, TN-GA (TN part) 1× · Clarksville, TN-KY (TN part) 1.6× · Cleveland, TN 1.7× · Johnson City, TN 1.4× · Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA (TN part) 1.3×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Jackson, TN · Morristown, TN
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Great Clips
#1 in 7 metro areas
Nashville, TN · Knoxville, TN · Chattanooga, TN-GA (TN part) · Clarksville, TN-KY (TN part) · Cleveland, TN · Johnson City, TN · Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA (TN part)
Not enough tracked stores: Jackson, TN · Morristown, TN
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Tennessee compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Tennessee as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Tennessee 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 Tennessee is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Tennessee. 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. Southern Roots and Great Clips sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southern Roots | - | +8.4% |
| 2 | Great Clips | - | +3.7% |
| 3 | SmartStyle | - | +3.0% |
| 4 | Ross the Boss | - | +1.5% |
| 5 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | +0.8% |
| 6 | Supercuts | - | -7.7% |
| 7 | Kim's Hair Plus | - | -10.2% |
| 8 | Drybar Shops | - | -12.9% |
| 9 | Pigtails & Crewcuts | - | -13.2% |
| 10 | Cutting Crew Hair Salons | - | -13.9% |
| 11 | Fantastic Sams | - | -17.8% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- SmartStyle
- Hair Benders Internationalé
- Supercuts
- Ross the Boss
- Kim's Hair Plus
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
738 tracked store locations in Tennessee. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 259 of the 738 stores (35%); 422 of the 447 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, the same share as across the United States.
- Great Clips (132)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (54)
- SmartStyle (32)
- Hair Benders Internationalé (1)
- Supercuts (25)
- Ross the Boss (6)
- Kim's Hair Plus (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 132
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 54
- 3 SmartStyle 32
- 4 Supercuts 25
- 5 Fantastic Sams 16
- 6 Pigtails & Crewcuts 7
- 7 Ross the Boss 6
- 8 Cutting Crew Hair Salons 4
- 9 Scout's Barbershop 4
- 10 Southern Roots 4
- 11 Kim's Hair Plus 3
- 12 Drybar Shops 3
- 13 Salon Azure and Spa 2
- 14 The Hair Company 2
- 15 Premier Salon 2
- 16 Oxana Salon 2
- 17 Gambuzza's Barbershop 2
- 18 Tangles Salon 2
- 19 Salon Blonde 2
- 20 Styles on Broadway 2
- 21 YZ's Styles & Barbershop 2
- 22 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 2
- 23 Natural Alternatives 2
- 24 Alma Bella Salon 1
- 25 Boho Beauty Co 1
- 26 Surreal Beauty 1
- 27 Lox ‘N Irons Salon LLC 1
- 28 Vagabond Hair Studio 1
- 29 Salon Amie 1
- 30 Jayson K. Ezell 1
- 31 DanielShay's Salon Boutique Spa 1
- 32 The Parker House on Main 1
- 33 Eye Candy Salon & Boutique 1
- 34 Chattanooga Hair Co. 1
- 35 HD Star Barbershop LLC 1
- 36 Bella's Hair Studio 1
- 37 Krome Salon & Spa 1
- 38 Element Salon Green Hills 1
- 39 H2O Hair Studio 1
- 40 Studio K 1
- 41 Lindsey Newton's Premium Men's Studio 1
- 42 Studio F/X Salon 1
- 43 Salon dé Coupe 1
- 44 Halo Salon 1
- 45 Strands Salon and Day Spa 1
- 46 Messi Heads Hair Salon 1
- 47 Salon 95 1
- 48 Grow Knoxville - A Shane Archer Concept Salon 1
- 49 Hair Lounge of Collierville 1
- 50 Roc CØCØ Salon 1
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