Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA

Iceflower tracks 217 stores from 149 gas & auto chains in Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA. Advance Auto Parts grew fastest over the last year, ahead of O'Reilly Auto Parts and Kwik Stop.

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
149
Tracked stores
217
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. Advance Auto Parts and O'Reilly Auto Parts sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Advance Auto Parts - +8.2%
2 O'Reilly Auto Parts - +6.5%
3 Kwik Stop - +6.3%
4 Casey's General Store - +5.7%
5 Kwik Trip - +2.9%
6 AutoZone - +2.8%
7 Casey's - +1.5%

Store footprint

Store map

217 tracked store locations in Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 57 of the 217 stores (26%); 131 of the 149 tracked chains have a single store here. 24% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are auto repair services, against 13% across Iowa.

Top tracked chains by store count

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