Trends · data through September 2026

Eye Cares in Texas

Iceflower tracks 1,036 stores from 853 eye care chains in Texas. Gulf Coast Eye Institute grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Retina Institute of Texas and Eye Trends.

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
853
Tracked stores
1,036
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked eye care 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. Gulf Coast Eye Institute and Retina Institute of Texas sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Gulf Coast Eye Institute ▲1 +19.8%
2 Retina Institute of Texas ▲2 +16.9%
3 Eye Trends - +16.7%
4 Williams Eye Care ▲1 +11.0%
5 Perspective Eye Care ▲3 +8.6%
6 Memorial Eye Center - +4.9%
7 MyEyeDr. - +4.3%
8 First Eye Care - +4.3%
9 Advanced Eyecare ▲1 +3.1%
10 Switalski Eye Care ▲1 +2.5%
11 Great Hills Eye Care ▲1 -3.6%
12 Advanced Vision Care - -8.8%
13 Vision Source - -9.3%
14 Family Vision Center ▼1 -10.5%
15 LASIK, Cornea & Cataract Specialty Center ▼3 -16.8%
  • MyEyeDr.
  • Mann Eye Institute
  • Houston Eye Associates
  • Vision Source
  • Memorial Eye Center
  • Eye Trends
  • San Antonio Eye Center
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,036 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 92 of the 1,036 stores (9%); 789 of the 853 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are eye cares, the same share as across the United States.

  • MyEyeDr. (52)
  • Mann Eye Institute (13)
  • Houston Eye Associates (8)
  • Vision Source (11)
  • Memorial Eye Center (4)
  • Eye Trends (5)
  • San Antonio Eye Center (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 MyEyeDr. 52
  • 2 Mann Eye Institute 13
  • 3 Vision Source 11
  • 4 Houston Eye Associates 8
  • 5 Switalski Eye Care 8
  • 6 Thurmond Eye Associates 6
  • 7 First Eye Care 5
  • 8 Advanced Eyecare 5
  • 9 Eye Trends 5
  • 10 Memorial Eye Center 4
  • 11 Retina Institute of Texas 4
  • 12 Perspective Eye Care 4
  • 13 Texas Eye Institute 4
  • 14 Family Vision Center 4
  • 15 Gulf Coast Eye Institute 4
  • 16 San Antonio Eye Center 3
  • 17 Advanced Vision Care 3
  • 18 Great Hills Eye Care 3
  • 19 LASIK, Cornea & Cataract Specialty Center 3
  • 20 Williams Eye Care 3
  • 21 20/20 iCare 2
  • 22 The Eye Care Center 2
  • 23 Quality Eye Care 2
  • 24 Gold Eye Clinic 2
  • 25 Eyeworks 2
  • 26 Nethery Eye Associates 2
  • 27 Rosemore Eye Care 2
  • 28 Eye Site 2
  • 29 Houston Lasik & Eye 2
  • 30 Precision Eye Care 2
  • 31 Retina Associates of South Texas 2
  • 32 Envision Eye Care 2
  • 33 Hammond Vision Center 2
  • 34 Coastal Eye Associates 2
  • 35 Whitsett Vision Group 2
  • 36 Clear Eye Care 2
  • 37 Optica Bravo 2
  • 38 Eyeland Vision 2
  • 39 Kleiman Evangelista Eye Centers of Texas 2
  • 40 RCP Eyecare 2
  • 41 Complete Family Eye Care 2
  • 42 Newberry Vision Center 1
  • 43 Marsh Eye Center 1
  • 44 Space Center Eye Associates 1
  • 45 Texas Family Eyecare 1
  • 46 Eye Pieces Plano 1
  • 47 Kingsley Optical 1
  • 48 McKinney Family Eyecare 1
  • 49 First Eye Care Bedford 1
  • 50 West Houston Eye 1

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