Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Virginia

Iceflower tracks 8,425 stores from 3,505 gas & auto chains in Virginia. Valvoline Instant Oil Change grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Alamo Rent A Car and Holiday.

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
3,505
Tracked stores
8,425
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 Instant Oil Change and Alamo Rent A Car sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲1 +18.6%
2 Alamo Rent A Car ▲9 +17.3%
3 Holiday - +16.2%
4 Market Express ▲2 +15.2%
5 Citgo ▲2 +15.2%
6 Pep Boys ▲4 +14.5%
7 76 ▲7 +13.1%
8 Honda ▲2 +11.1%
9 Raceway - +10.8%
10 Wawa ▲1 +9.4%
11 Sheehy Ford ▲5 +8.9%
12 Murphy USA - +8.7%
13 Sheetz - +8.4%
14 Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers ▲5 +8.4%
15 Meineke Car Care Center ▲4 +7.2%

Store footprint

Store map

8,425 tracked store locations in Virginia, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 2,173 of the 8,425 stores (26%); 3,198 of the 3,505 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, against 6% across the United States.

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