cititrends.com · Apparel & Accessories · the Q3 2026 release
Citi Trends has 53 locations in North Carolina, its 5th-largest state of the 29 it operates in.
See where Citi Trends opens next →Every figure in this block is measured inside North Carolina. Nothing in it is a rate.
| Figure | Value | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Locations in North Carolina | 53 | Records the US location index holds for Citi Trends inside North Carolina right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time. |
| Rank among Citi Trends's states | 5th of 29 | By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor. |
| States with a published Citi Trends page | 29 | States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published. |
| Locations across those states | 683 | The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor. |
| North Carolina's share of that footprint | 7.8% | A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate. |
| Verified openings in North Carolina | 0 | A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today. |
| Cities with verified openings in North Carolina | 0 | Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table. |
Cities with verified openings recorded for Citi Trends in North Carolina. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Citi Trends locations.
| City | Verified openings | Share of North Carolina openings | Spellings folded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citi Trends has no opening records in North Carolina inside the tracked window. It operates there — the count above is a presence snapshot — but nothing opened while the window was watching. | |||
The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. North Carolina is highlighted in place.
| Rank | State | Locations | Share of footprint |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia | 76 | 11.1% |
| 2 | Texas | 67 | 9.8% |
| 3 | Florida | 58 | 8.5% |
| 4 | South Carolina | 57 | 8.3% |
| 5 | North Carolina — this page | 53 | 7.8% |
| 6 | Louisiana | 39 | 5.7% |
| 7 | Alabama | 37 | 5.4% |
| 8 | Ohio | 37 | 5.4% |
| 9 | Mississippi | 33 | 4.8% |
| 10 | Illinois | 30 | 4.4% |
| 11 | Michigan | 25 | 3.7% |
| 12 | Tennessee | 21 | 3.1% |
| 13 | Virginia | 21 | 3.1% |
| 14 | Indiana | 18 | 2.6% |
| 15 | Arkansas | 15 | 2.2% |
| 16 | New York | 14 | 2.0% |
| 17 | Pennsylvania | 11 | 1.6% |
| 18 | Maryland | 10 | 1.5% |
| 19 | California | 9 | 1.3% |
| 20 | Missouri | 9 | 1.3% |
| 21 | Oklahoma | 8 | 1.2% |
| 22 | Wisconsin | 7 | 1.0% |
| 23 | Kentucky | 6 | 0.9% |
| 24 | Connecticut | 5 | 0.7% |
| 25 | Massachusetts | 5 | 0.7% |
| 26 | Delaware | 3 | 0.4% |
| 27 | Iowa | 3 | 0.4% |
| 28 | New Jersey | 3 | 0.4% |
| 29 | Nevada | 3 | 0.4% |
Context for the local figures above. None of it is a North Carolina number.
| Figure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| US locations | 697 | At the latest vintage, Q3 2026. |
| US locations at the window start | 688 | The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024. |
| Net new over the window | +9 | The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings. |
| Growth over the window | +1.3% | Percentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide. |
| Growth as a multiple | 1.0x | The same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count. |
| Growth against its category | +1.3% | The brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out. |
| Mean quarterly change | +3 | Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub. |
| Verified openings in the window | 13 | Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide. |
| Openings pace, latest step | +7.2 | Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step. |
| Openings pace, prior step | the prior step is majority batch-suspect, so its pace and the direction are withheld while the latest one stands | The same measure one step earlier. |
| Direction | the two steps are not comparable, so no direction is stated | Accelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed. |
| Latest pace as a share of the base | a single quarter's share has nothing to be read against, so it prints only alongside the prior quarter's | The latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage. |
| Prior pace as a share of the base | withheld with the prior step, above | The same measure one step earlier. |
| Reported openings pace, latest | +7.2 | 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 | +4.0 | The same, one step earlier. |
| Largest single step's share of the change | 67% | 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 | 144% | Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step. |
| Records matching the brand's own website | 100% | Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain. |
| Records sharing an address with another operator | 46% | 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 > Fashion Retail > Clothing Store | The index's own category path for this brand. |
| Segment | Apparel & Accessories | The published grouping the category rolls up to. |
| Match name in the index | citi trends | The string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name. |
| Display name | Citi Trends | As published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's. |
| Domain | cititrends.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 | 688 | 100 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 2024-12-03 | 688 | 100 | 0 |
| Q1 2025 | 2025-03-06 | 691 | 100 | +3 |
| Q2 2025 | 2025-06-10 | 688 | 100 | -3 |
| Q3 2025 | 2025-09-09 | 688 | 100 | 0 |
| Q4 2025 | 2025-12-16 | 687 | 100 | -1 |
| Q1 2026 | 2026-03-18 | 691 | 100 | +4 |
| Q3 2026 | 2026-07-09 | 697 | 101 | +6 |
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 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0% |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Q1 2025 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 0% |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Q2 2025 | 0 | 96 | 0 | 0% |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Q3 2025 | 0 | 91 | 0 | 0% |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Q4 2025 | 0 | 98 | 0 | 0% |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Q1 2026 | 4 | 92 | +4.0 | 100% |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Q3 2026 | 9 | 113 | +7.2 | 0% |
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