Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 64 stores from 15 teen & young adult apparel chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Cotton On grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Topic and Tillys.

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
15
Tracked stores
64
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel 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. Cotton On and Hot Topic sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cotton On logo Cotton On - +7.9%
2 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic - +4.0%
3 T Tillys logo Tillys - +3.1%
4 P PacSun logo PacSun ▲1 -0.3%
5 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. - -0.6%
6 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - -1.5%
7 S Spencer's logo Spencer's - -3.3%
8 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez ▼1 -17.9%
9 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters - -84.7%
  • Hollister Co.
  • Tillys
  • American Eagle
  • PacSun
  • Zumiez
  • Garage
  • Hot Topic
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

64 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Hollister Co. (7)
  • Tillys (9)
  • American Eagle (6)
  • PacSun (6)
  • Zumiez (7)
  • Garage (2)
  • Hot Topic (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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