Trends · data through September 2026

Home Improvement Centers in the United States

Iceflower tracks 14,568 stores from 4,168 home improvement center chains in the United States. J&L Building Materials grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Southeastern Salvage Home Emporium and Floors To Your Home.

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
4,168
Tracked stores
14,568
Consumer panel
130M+

State by state

The leading home improvement center chains in every state

Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each state, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. The Home Depot leads in 32 states and DC, Lowe's Home Improvement in 12 states, and Menards in 6 states. Against their share in the US as a whole, The Home Depot stands out in 21 states, Menards in 15 states, and Lowe's Home Improvement in 14 states.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

No ranked chain with 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there: District of Columbia

A state shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to the US compares a chain's share of the state's spend with its share in the US as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in the US and the chains that lead a state by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked home improvement center 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. J&L Building Materials and Southeastern Salvage Home Emporium sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J&L Building Materials ▲12 +19.1%
2 Southeastern Salvage Home Emporium ▲1 +18.8%
3 Floors To Your Home - +17.5%
4 Flooring America ▲11 +17.2%
5 Rug & Home ▲11 +16.3%
6 Benjamin Moore ▲1 +15.4%
7 Daltile ▲2 +14.5%
8 Groundworks ▲11 +11.8%
9 Arizona Tile ▲6 +10.4%
10 Lanham Hardwood Flooring ▲13 +10.0%
11 rodda miller paint pro ▲4 +8.4%
12 Menards - +7.9%
13 TW Perry ▲9 +7.2%
14 Dunn-Edwards Paints ▲2 +6.4%
15 PPG Paints - +6.3%
  • The Home Depot
  • Lowe's Home Improvement
  • Menards
  • Sherwin-Williams
  • Floor & Decor
  • Leslie's Pool Supplies
  • The Tile Shop
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

14,568 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 7,673 of the 14,568 stores (53%); 3,700 of the 4,168 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • The Home Depot (2,130)
  • Lowe's Home Improvement (1,798)
  • Menards (351)
  • Sherwin-Williams (2,668)
  • Floor & Decor (268)
  • Leslie's Pool Supplies (726)
  • The Tile Shop (125)
  • Other tracked chains

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