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Big Lots in Ohio

biglots.com · Discount & Value · the Q3 2026 release

Big Lots has 114 locations in Ohio, its largest state of the 37 it operates in.

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Big Lots in Ohio

Every figure in this block is measured inside Ohio. Nothing in it is a rate.

Big Lots: local figures for Ohio.
FigureValueWhat it measuresOhio only
Locations in Ohio114Records the US location index holds for Big Lots inside Ohio right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time.
Rank among Big Lots's states1st of 37By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor.
States with a published Big Lots page37States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published.
Locations across those states981The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor.
Ohio's share of that footprint11.6%A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate.
Verified openings in Ohio1A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today.
Cities with verified openings in Ohio1Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table.
  • The two counts above are measured differently and are both correct. Locations in Ohio is a presence snapshot of what operates there now; verified openings counts what opened inside the tracked window. A chain that already had 40 locations in Ohio and opened none reads 0 openings.
  • It is a count of OPENINGS, not of stores. Openings are diffs against the previous release, so a mature operator that finished its Ohio buildout before the window opened shows a large location count and no openings at all.
Where Big Lots has opened in Ohio

Cities with verified openings recorded for Big Lots in Ohio. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Big Lots locations.

Big Lots verified openings by city in Ohio, largest first.
Citymodal spelling in the indexVerified openingsinside OhioShare of Ohio openingsSpellings foldedraw variants in the index
Reynoldsburg1100.0%1
  • 1 cities with verified openings in Ohio.
  • Spellings are folded the same way the city URLs are built, so "St. Louis" and "St Louis" are one city rather than two. The most frequent raw spelling wins the label; "Spellings folded" is how many the index actually holds.
  • Cities are NOT linked: a city page is published only where at least three brands clear the floor, so a link from here would frequently point at a page that does not exist.
Big Lots in every state we publish

The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. Ohio is highlighted in place.

Big Lots locations by state.
RankStateLocationspresence snapshotShare of footprintpublished states only
1Ohio — this page11411.6%
2North Carolina828.4%
3Florida808.2%
4Pennsylvania676.8%
5Georgia515.2%
6Texas464.7%
7Tennessee434.4%
8New York424.3%
9South Carolina373.8%
10California353.6%
11Kentucky353.6%
12Virginia353.6%
13Alabama303.1%
14Michigan303.1%
15Indiana272.8%
16Oklahoma202.0%
17Illinois191.9%
18New Jersey181.8%
19Maryland161.6%
20Missouri161.6%
21West Virginia161.6%
22Arizona141.4%
23Louisiana141.4%
24Arkansas131.3%
25Wisconsin101.0%
26Colorado90.9%
27Mississippi90.9%
28New Mexico90.9%
29Massachusetts80.8%
30Washington80.8%
31Connecticut50.5%
32Oregon50.5%
33Kansas40.4%
34Maine40.4%
35New Hampshire40.4%
36Nevada30.3%
37Utah30.3%
  • A state appears here only with at least 3 locations. States below the floor are in the index but have no page, so this total is smaller than the national count.
  • Locations are a presence snapshot at the Q3 2026 release. They are not openings and they are not a change.
Big Lots nationwide

Context for the local figures above. None of it is a Ohio number.

Big Lots: national figures, for context only.
FigureValueUnited StatesBasis
US locations1,012At the latest vintage, Q3 2026.
US locations at the window start1,761The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024.
Net new over the window-749The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings.
Growth over the windowwithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tablePercentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide.
Growth as a multiplewithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tableThe same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count.
Growth against its categorywithheld: this brand's index coverage is still maturing — see the note under this tableThe brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out.
Mean quarterly change-30Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub.
Verified openings in the window7Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide.
Openings pace, latest step0Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step.
Openings pace, prior step0The same measure one step earlier.
DirectionsteadyAccelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed.
Latest pace as a share of the basea single quarter's share has nothing to be read against, so it prints only alongside the prior quarter'sThe latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage.
Prior pace as a share of the basewithheld with the prior step, aboveThe same measure one step earlier.
Reported openings pace, latest0The server's own pre-aggregated pace. Shown because the page ranks on the series-derived figure above and the two must agree.
Reported openings pace, prior0The same, one step earlier.
Largest single step's share of the change—One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings.
Steps that moved the same direction0%A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter.
Passes the credibility filternoLargest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero.
Cleared to print a percentagenoWhether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything.
Openings corroborated by coverage—Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step.
Records matching the brand's own website99%Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain.
Records sharing an address with another operator36%High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases.
Entity classchainAnything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier.
CategoryRetail > Discount StoreThe index's own category path for this brand.
SegmentDiscount & ValueThe published grouping the category rolls up to.
Match name in the indexbig lotsThe string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name.
Display nameBig LotsAs published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's.
Domainbiglots.comThe key every table on this tier is joined on.
Tracked window8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across.
Vintage stamps2024-11-19|2024-12-03|2025-03-06|2025-06-10|2025-09-09|2025-12-16|2026-03-18|2026-07-09Every release these figures were built from, oldest first, pipe-separated. It is a LIST of dates rather than one date, which is why nothing on this page prints it as a timestamp.
  • Every figure in this block is NATIONAL. It is identical on all 37 of Big Lots's state pages and is not apportioned to Ohio — dividing a national percentage into a state is not a fact about anything, which is why no Ohio growth rate is published anywhere on this page.
  • Openings are individually dated records new to the index; net new is the difference between two count snapshots. The two answer different questions and rarely match.
  • This brand's index coverage is still maturing, so growth percentages are withheld — the counts shown are individually verified store openings.
Big Lots's count by quarter, nationwide

The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.

Big Lots: US locations at each tracked vintage.
QuarterVintage dateUS locationsIndexed100 = first vintageChange vs prior
Q4 20242024-11-191,761100—
Q4 20242024-12-031,56989-192
Q1 20252025-03-061,52186-48
Q2 20252025-06-101,43181-90
Q3 20252025-09-091,38479-47
Q4 20252025-12-161,02858-356
Q1 20262026-03-181,02158-7
Q3 20262026-07-091,01257-9
  • Indexed values rebase the series to 100 at the first vintage with a non-zero count. A brand first measured at zero enters at 0 and reaches 100 one step later.
  • National figures. Not apportioned to any state.
Big Lots's openings by vintage step, nationwide

Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.

Big Lots: verified openings per vintage step, with the real step length each pace is normalised by.
Step endsQuarterOpeningsin the stepStep lengthdaysPaceper 91 daysBatch-suspectshare of the step
Dec 3, 2024Q4 202401400%
Mar 6, 2025Q1 202509300%
Jun 10, 2025Q2 2025496+3.80%
Sep 9, 2025Q3 202509100%
Dec 16, 2025Q4 2025398+2.80%
Mar 18, 2026Q1 202609200%
Jul 9, 2026Q3 2026011300%
  • Steps are irregular, so a pace is openings divided by the step's real length and multiplied by 91 days rather than a raw quarterly count.
  • A batch-suspect share above half means the records were created on an index-wide vendor ingest day or bunched into a few days of the step; it impeaches the timing, not the existence of the stores.
  • National figures. Not apportioned to any state.
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