Popularity ranking · South Africa

The 50 most popular Hardware Stores in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest hardware stores in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Leroy Merlin, Dulux and Lowe's lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 610k people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 15k, and the largest, Leroy Merlin, reaches around 529k people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each hardware store, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 50, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Africa. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Africa, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Africa. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Thomas Philipps 172 38.8 49.5% Hardware store
27 Blain's Farm & Fleet 153 36.3 60.1% Hardware store
28 K-rauta 125 41.3 69.7% Hardware store
29 BALDUR-Garten 120 46.7 76.1% Hardware store
30 Tedox 118 39.3 41.8% Hardware store
31 Tecnomat 116 39.4 47.6% Hardware store
32 Jawoll 112 38.1 47.9% Hardware store
33 Globus Baumarkt 111 33.1 60.0% Hardware store
34 Do it Best 98 38.6 59.4% Hardware store
35 Hagebaumarkt 92 39.2 46.3% Hardware store
36 Sonderpreis Baumarkt 90 38.8 49.5% Hardware store
37 Tractor Supply Company 81 35.2 25.5% Hardware store
38 Floralux 73 39.0 51.9% Hardware store
39 Zgonc 70 40.5 45.3% Hardware store
40 Westlake Ace Hardware 56 38.6 54.3% Hardware store
41 Sam's Club 53 40.1 43.4% Hardware store
42 Gander Outdoors 43 34.5 31.9% Hardware store
43 Knauber 41 38.8 47.4% Hardware store
44 BauSpezi 38 36.6 49.7% Hardware store
45 ZG Raiffeisen 35 36.2 54.7% Hardware store
46 B1 Discount-Baumarkt 26 40.1 51.2% Hardware store
47 Stabilo Fachmarkt 17 39.4 46.6% Hardware store
48 V-Baumarkt 9 40.8 46.7% Hardware store
49 BayWa Bau & Garten 8 39.3 41.8% Hardware store
50 Eisen Krämer 0 39.3 41.8% Hardware store

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular hardware stores compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa and ranks each hardware store by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest hardware store in South Africa?

Leroy Merlin currently leads with an estimated audience of 529k people in South Africa.

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