circlek.com · Grocery & Convenience · the Q3 2026 release
Circle K has 109 locations in Virginia, its 24th-largest state of the 49 it operates in.
See where Circle K opens next →Every figure in this block is measured inside Virginia. Nothing in it is a rate.
| Figure | Value | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Locations in Virginia | 109 | Records the US location index holds for Circle K inside Virginia right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time. |
| Rank among Circle K's states | 24th of 49 | By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor. |
| States with a published Circle K page | 49 | States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published. |
| Locations across those states | 8,951 | The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor. |
| Virginia's share of that footprint | 1.2% | A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate. |
| Verified openings in Virginia | 3 | A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today. |
| Cities with verified openings in Virginia | 3 | Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table. |
Cities with verified openings recorded for Circle K in Virginia. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Circle K locations.
| City | Verified openings | Share of Virginia openings | Spellings folded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Jackson | 1 | 33.3% | 1 |
| Roanoke | 1 | 33.3% | 1 |
| Winchester | 1 | 33.3% | 1 |
The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. Virginia is highlighted in place.
| Rank | State | Locations | Share of footprint |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | 1,064 | 11.9% |
| 2 | Texas | 970 | 10.8% |
| 3 | Arizona | 684 | 7.6% |
| 4 | California | 555 | 6.2% |
| 5 | North Carolina | 540 | 6.0% |
| 6 | Georgia | 494 | 5.5% |
| 7 | Illinois | 426 | 4.8% |
| 8 | Ohio | 338 | 3.8% |
| 9 | South Carolina | 313 | 3.5% |
| 10 | Louisiana | 302 | 3.4% |
| 11 | Alabama | 253 | 2.8% |
| 12 | Colorado | 245 | 2.7% |
| 13 | Tennessee | 230 | 2.6% |
| 14 | Indiana | 221 | 2.5% |
| 15 | Missouri | 218 | 2.4% |
| 16 | Wisconsin | 182 | 2.0% |
| 17 | Oklahoma | 140 | 1.6% |
| 18 | Iowa | 136 | 1.5% |
| 19 | Kentucky | 122 | 1.4% |
| 20 | Maine | 121 | 1.4% |
| 21 | Minnesota | 121 | 1.4% |
| 22 | Washington | 118 | 1.3% |
| 23 | Arkansas | 114 | 1.3% |
| 24 | Virginia — this page | 109 | 1.2% |
| 25 | New Mexico | 108 | 1.2% |
| 26 | Mississippi | 104 | 1.2% |
| 27 | Oregon | 88 | 1.0% |
| 28 | Michigan | 77 | 0.9% |
| 29 | New Hampshire | 73 | 0.8% |
| 30 | Kansas | 64 | 0.7% |
| 31 | Nevada | 52 | 0.6% |
| 32 | West Virginia | 44 | 0.5% |
| 33 | New York | 41 | 0.5% |
| 34 | New Jersey | 38 | 0.4% |
| 35 | South Dakota | 38 | 0.4% |
| 36 | Pennsylvania | 36 | 0.4% |
| 37 | Massachusetts | 33 | 0.4% |
| 38 | North Dakota | 31 | 0.3% |
| 39 | Montana | 22 | 0.2% |
| 40 | Alaska | 20 | 0.2% |
| 41 | Maryland | 16 | 0.2% |
| 42 | Vermont | 12 | 0.1% |
| 43 | Nebraska | 10 | 0.1% |
| 44 | Connecticut | 7 | 0.1% |
| 45 | Hawaii | 7 | 0.1% |
| 46 | Utah | 5 | 0.1% |
| 47 | Idaho | 3 | 0.0% |
| 48 | Rhode Island | 3 | 0.0% |
| 49 | Wyoming | 3 | 0.0% |
Context for the local figures above. None of it is a Virginia number.
| Figure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| US locations | 8,992 | At the latest vintage, Q3 2026. |
| US locations at the window start | 8,231 | The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024. |
| Net new over the window | +761 | The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings. |
| Growth over the window | +9.3% | Percentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide. |
| Growth as a multiple | 1.1x | The same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count. |
| Growth against its category | +9.3% | The brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out. |
| Mean quarterly change | +215 | Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub. |
| Verified openings in the window | 872 | Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide. |
| Openings pace, latest step | the openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releases | Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step. |
| Openings pace, prior step | the openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releases | The same measure one step earlier. |
| Direction | the openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releases | Accelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed. |
| Latest pace as a share of the base | the openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releases | The latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage. |
| Prior pace as a share of the base | the openings steps did not clear the pace gate this vintage: one release carries too much of the window's movement, or the two most recent steps are not adjacent releases | The same measure one step earlier. |
| Reported openings pace, latest | +231 | The 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, prior | +446 | The same, one step earlier. |
| Largest single step's share of the change | 58% | One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings. |
| Steps that moved the same direction | 71% | A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter. |
| Passes the credibility filter | no | Largest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero. |
| Cleared to print a percentage | yes | Whether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything. |
| Openings corroborated by coverage | 115% | Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step. |
| Records matching the brand's own website | 92% | Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain. |
| Records sharing an address with another operator | 27% | High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases. |
| Entity class | chain | Anything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier. |
| Category | Retail > Convenience Store | The index's own category path for this brand. |
| Segment | Grocery & Convenience | The published grouping the category rolls up to. |
| Match name in the index | circle k | The string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name. |
| Display name | Circle K | As published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's. |
| Domain | circlek.com | The key every table on this tier is joined on. |
| Tracked window | 8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026 | How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across. |
| Vintage stamps | 2024-11-19|2024-12-03|2025-03-06|2025-06-10|2025-09-09|2025-12-16|2026-03-18|2026-07-09 | Every 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. |
The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.
| Quarter | Vintage date | US locations | Indexed | Change vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | 2024-11-19 | 8,231 | 100 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 2024-12-03 | 8,229 | 100 | -2 |
| Q1 2025 | 2025-03-06 | 8,277 | 101 | +48 |
| Q2 2025 | 2025-06-10 | 8,286 | 101 | +9 |
| Q3 2025 | 2025-09-09 | 8,298 | 101 | +12 |
| Q4 2025 | 2025-12-16 | 8,288 | 101 | -10 |
| Q1 2026 | 2026-03-18 | 8,728 | 106 | +440 |
| Q3 2026 | 2026-07-09 | 8,992 | 109 | +264 |
Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.
| Step ends | Quarter | Openings | Step length | Pace | Batch-suspect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 2024 | Q4 2024 | 3 | 14 | +20 | 0% |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Q1 2025 | 33 | 93 | +32 | 0% |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Q2 2025 | 38 | 96 | +36 | 3% |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Q3 2025 | 28 | 91 | +28 | 0% |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Q4 2025 | 32 | 98 | +30 | 28% |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Q1 2026 | 451 | 92 | +446 | 96% |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Q3 2026 | 287 | 113 | +231 | 47% |
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