Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 5,247 stores from 2,074 gas & auto chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Pitstop Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Grease Monkey and Quik Mart.

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
2,074
Tracked stores
5,247
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. Pitstop Express and Grease Monkey sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Pitstop Express ▲4 +17.7%
2 G Grease Monkey logo Grease Monkey - +16.9%
3 Q Quik Mart logo Quik Mart ▲5 +16.6%
4 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven ▲1 +16.4%
5 C Checkpoint ▲3 +16.2%
6 C CarMax logo CarMax - +13.9%
7 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +13.9%
8 B Buc-ee's logo Buc-ee's - +13.8%
9 C Cycle Gear logo Cycle Gear ▲2 +11.3%
10 M Murphy USA logo Murphy USA - +10.2%
11 K Kwik Kar ▲3 +10.2%
12 F Firestone Complete Auto Care logo Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲1 +10.2%
13 B Buzzy Bee ▲3 +10.0%
14 R RoadTrac ▲2 +9.3%
15 C Christian Brothers Automotive logo Christian Brothers Automotive ▲3 +9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

5,247 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category.

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