Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 4,798 stores from 2,240 gas & auto chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Easterns Automotive Group grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Valvoline Instant Oil Change and Penske Truck Rental.

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
2,240
Tracked stores
4,798
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. Easterns Automotive Group and Valvoline Instant Oil Change sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Easterns Automotive Group ▲6 +19.9%
2 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change ▲1 +17.8%
3 P Penske Truck Rental logo Penske Truck Rental ▲7 +15.4%
4 D Dynamic Automotive ▲4 +15.2%
5 L Liberty logo Liberty ▲2 +12.4%
6 P Parts Authority logo Parts Authority ▲2 +12.2%
7 F Firestone Complete Auto Care logo Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲2 +10.7%
8 R Royal Farms logo Royal Farms - +10.6%
9 D Discount Tire logo Discount Tire ▲9 +10.6%
10 A AAMCO ▲3 +10.4%
11 S Sheetz logo Sheetz - +10.2%
12 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car - +9.2%
13 M Midas logo Midas ▲8 +8.9%
14 W Wawa logo Wawa ▲1 +7.8%
15 E Exxon logo Exxon - +7.0%

Store footprint

Store map

4,798 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category.

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