Trends · data through September 2026

Eye Cares in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 274 stores from 198 eye care chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The Retina Group of Washington grew fastest over the last year, ahead of MyEyeDr. and Premier Optometric Services.

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
198
Tracked stores
274
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. The Retina Group of Washington and MyEyeDr. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 The Retina Group of Washington - +6.5%
2 MyEyeDr. - +4.1%
3 Premier Optometric Services - -8.0%
4 Eye Physicians of Virginia - -18.5%
5 Voorthuis Opticians ▲1 -29.5%
6 The Eye Center ▼1 -31.5%
7 Northern Virginia Doctors of Optometry - -38.7%
  • MyEyeDr.
  • Northern Virginia Doctors of Optometry
  • Eye Care Doctors of Optometry
  • The Retina Group of Washington
  • Virginia Eyecare Center
  • LasikPlus
  • Visualeyes Optometrists
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

274 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 66 of the 274 stores (24%); 181 of the 198 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are eye cares, against 2% across District of Columbia.

  • MyEyeDr. (50)
  • Northern Virginia Doctors of Optometry (5)
  • Eye Care Doctors of Optometry (1)
  • The Retina Group of Washington (4)
  • Virginia Eyecare Center (1)
  • LasikPlus (2)
  • Visualeyes Optometrists (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 MyEyeDr. 50
  • 2 Northern Virginia Doctors of Optometry 5
  • 3 The Retina Group of Washington 4
  • 4 The Eye Center 4
  • 5 Premier Optometric Services 3
  • 6 Eye Physicians of Virginia 3
  • 7 Voorthuis Opticians 3
  • 8 Visualeyes Optometrists 3
  • 9 Central Maryland Eye Associates 2
  • 10 VisualEyes 2
  • 11 Hi Def Eyecare Center 2
  • 12 Vista Eye Specialists 2
  • 13 Advanced Retina Center 2
  • 14 A Visual Affair 2
  • 15 Eye Consultants Of Northern Virginia 2
  • 16 Virginia Retina Center 2
  • 17 LasikPlus 2
  • 18 Premier Eye Care Center 1
  • 19 Medical Eye Center 1
  • 20 Zen Eyecare 1
  • 21 Washington Eye Associates 1
  • 22 EyeCare About Eyes 1
  • 23 Shady Grove Ophthalmology 1
  • 24 Focus: Doctors Of Optometry 1
  • 25 Langley Park Optical 1
  • 26 Columbia Eye Associates 1
  • 27 Fair Lakes Optometry 1
  • 28 Arthur Eleftherio 1
  • 29 ICare Associates Vision Center 1
  • 30 Marie L. Nazario, OD 1
  • 31 Dominion Eye Care 1
  • 32 Andrew J. Adelson, M.D. 1
  • 33 Dulles Eye Associates 1
  • 34 Argos Vision Center 1
  • 35 Urbana Eye Care 1
  • 36 New Vision Optica 1
  • 37 Northern Virginia Eye Institute 1
  • 38 Potomac Eye Care 1
  • 39 True Eyecare 1
  • 40 Eye and Vision Care of South Riding 1
  • 41 20/20 Vision 1
  • 42 Dressler Ophthalmology Associates 1
  • 43 Silver Spring Eye 1
  • 44 Metro Eyes 1
  • 45 NoVA Eye MD 1
  • 46 Sedgewick Eye Associates 1
  • 47 Oliver Opticians 1
  • 48 Laurel Eye Physicians 1
  • 49 idoc Optical 1
  • 50 Advanced Ophthalmology 1

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