Trends · data through September 2026

Gas Stations & Convenience Stores in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 3,785 stores from 465 gas stations & convenience stores in North Carolina. GATE Gas Station grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Spot and Royal Farms.

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
465
Tracked stores
3,785
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas stations & convenience stores

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. GATE Gas Station and Hot Spot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G GATE Gas Station logo GATE Gas Station ▲3 +17.2%
2 H Hot Spot logo Hot Spot ▲1 +14.2%
3 R Royal Farms logo Royal Farms - +11.6%
4 M Murphy USA logo Murphy USA - +9.6%
5 M Murphy Express ▲1 +7.6%
6 Q Quality Plus - +6.0%
7 C Cruizers ▲1 +5.7%
8 M Mobil logo Mobil ▲1 +5.1%
9 R Refuel logo Refuel - +5.0%
10 E Express Mart ▲2 +4.8%
11 I Ingles Gas Express logo Ingles Gas Express ▲1 +4.6%
12 R Raceway logo Raceway ▲1 +4.2%
13 H HotSpot Convenience Stores logo HotSpot Convenience Stores ▲3 +4.1%
14 7 7-Eleven logo 7-Eleven - +3.7%
15 C Citgo logo Citgo ▲1 +3.6%
  • Circle K
  • Shell
  • Sheetz
  • Speedway
  • Murphy USA
  • QuikTrip
  • 7-Eleven
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,785 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Circle K (431)
  • Shell (401)
  • Sheetz (138)
  • Speedway (263)
  • Murphy USA (90)
  • QuikTrip (43)
  • 7-Eleven (134)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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