Trends · data through September 2026

Self Storage Facilities in the United States

Iceflower tracks 10,802 stores from 1,899 self storage facility chains in the United States. Southern Self Storage grew fastest over the last year, ahead of JustStorage and Central Self Storage.

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
1,899
Tracked stores
10,802
Consumer panel
130M+

State by state

The leading self storage facility chains in every state

Tracked self storage facility chains ranked by consumer spend in each state, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Extra Space Storage leads in 39 states and DC, CubeSmart Self Storage in 1 state, and iStorage in 1 state. 7 chains lead at least one state. Against their share in the US as a whole, Extra Space Storage stands out in 15 states, CubeSmart Self Storage in 8 states and DC, and iStorage in 6 states.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Not enough tracked stores: Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming

No ranked chain with 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there: Montana, West Virginia

Not enough tracked stores: Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming

A state shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked self storage facility 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 self storage facility 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 Self Storage and JustStorage sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Southern Self Storage ▲10 +19.5%
2 JustStorage ▲14 +19.0%
3 Central Self Storage ▲9 +18.5%
4 Personal Mini Storage ▲7 +18.1%
5 All Secure Self Storage ▲15 +15.6%
6 A Metro Self Storage ▲16 +14.6%
7 American Mini Storage ▲7 +14.4%
8 Mabey's Moving and Storage, Inc. ▲3 +14.2%
9 Prestige Storage ▲2 +10.9%
10 US Storage Centers - +10.7%
11 Space Shop Self Storage ▲7 +9.9%
12 Cherokee Self Storage ▲10 +9.0%
13 Storage Sense ▲1 +8.7%
14 Affordable Storage ▲7 +8.4%
15 Storage Inns of America ▲9 +8.2%
  • Extra Space Storage
  • CubeSmart Self Storage
  • Public Storage
  • iStorage
  • StorageMart
  • Storage Rentals of America
  • SmartStop Self Storage
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

10,802 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 6,252 of the 10,802 stores (58%); 1,565 of the 1,899 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Extra Space Storage (4,012)
  • CubeSmart Self Storage (1,489)
  • Public Storage (406)
  • iStorage (189)
  • StorageMart (138)
  • Storage Rentals of America (156)
  • SmartStop Self Storage (137)
  • Other tracked chains

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