Gas & Auto Trends in Winston-Salem, NC 2026

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. Citgo and Mobil sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Citgo	▲3	+18.6%
2	Mobil	▲2	+13.8%
3	Murphy USA	▲3	+12.9%
4	Jiffy Lube	▲1	+12.5%
5	Shell	-	+12.1%
6	Enterprise Rent-A-Car	▲2	+8.8%
7	Exxon	-	+8.4%
8	Valvoline Instant Oil Change	▲2	+5.2%
9	Circle K	-	+5.0%
10	Discount Tire	▲3	+4.8%
11	Sheetz	-	+3.8%
12	Quality Plus	-	+3.6%
13	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲1	+3.2%
14	Sunoco	▲3	+0.1%
15	Speedway	-	-0.9%

Store footprint

Store map

602 tracked store locations in Winston-Salem, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 133 of the 602 stores (22%); 264 of the 301 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car dealers, against 8% across North Carolina.