Buc-ee’s vs. Wawa in the US: A Location Data Comparison

Key Takeaways

• Wawa has about 21 times more stores. It has 1,244 US stores. Buc-ee’s has 58.
• Three states hold most of Wawa’s stores. Florida (327), New Jersey (299), and Pennsylvania (273) account for about 72% of its locations.
• Texas is the center of Buc-ee’s network. It has 37 of the brand’s 58 stores, about 64%.
• Buc-ee’s reaches more states. It operates in 14 states. Wawa operates in 13 states and Washington, DC.
• The two brands share six states. They overlap in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky, and Alabama. Wawa has more stores in all six, from 327 vs 2 in Florida to 8 vs 4 in Alabama.

Introduction

Buc-ee’s and Wawa are two well-known roadside brands in the US. Both sell fuel, but they run very different kinds of stores. Buc-ee’s builds large travel centers along highways. Wawa runs smaller convenience stores.

Because of that gap, store count alone can’t tell you which brand is bigger or better. One Buc-ee’s is not the same as one Wawa. This post compares what the data can show: how each brand is spread across the country and where the two overlap.

We used location data from the ScrapeHero Datastore. It covers 1,244 Wawa stores and 58 Buc-ee’s stores. The sections below cover store counts, state and city footprints, and the states both brands share. 

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Methodology and Scope Box

About this data

• Source: ScrapeHero Datastore location data for Buc-ee’s and Wawa stores in the US.
• Coverage: The dataset has 58 Buc-ee’s stores and 1,244 Wawa stores. We used state, city, and store status. 
• Store status: All Wawa stores and 57 of the 58 Buc-ee’s stores are listed as open. One Buc-ee’s, in Port Lavaca, TX, is marked “possibly closed.”
• What this data can’t show: It does not measure sales, foot traffic, or revenue. Store counts show footprint, not business performance.

How Many Stores do Buc-ee’s and Wawa have in the US?

Wawa has 1,244 stores in the US. Buc-ee’s has 58. By store count, Wawa’s network is about 21 times larger.

The formats explain much of the gap. Recent Buc-ee’s travel centers run from 53,000 square feet to more than 75,000 square feet. A typical Wawa is about 5,000 square feet. One Buc-ee’s is many times the size of one Wawa, so store count alone understates how different the two networks are.

Wawa also packs its stores more tightly into the cities it serves. Its 1,244 stores sit in 665 cities, about 1.9 stores per city. Buc-ee’s 58 stores sit in 52 cities, about 1.1 per city, and almost every Buc-ee’s city has a single store.

Store counts show footprint, not performance. The next section looks at where each brand’s stores are.

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Which States Have the Most Buc-ee’s and Wawa Stores?

Wawa’s stores cluster in Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Buc-ee’s stores cluster in Texas.

Wawa: six states hold 93% of its stores

Florida has 327 Wawa stores, the most of any state. New Jersey has 299 and Pennsylvania has 273. Together, these three states hold about 72% of all Wawa stores.

Add Virginia (137), Maryland (69), and Delaware (51), and six states account for 1,156 of Wawa’s 1,244 stores, about 93%.

The other 88 stores are spread thinly. North Carolina has 19, Ohio 16, Indiana 14, Kentucky 11, Georgia 10, Alabama 8, and Washington, DC 4. West Virginia has a small number as well.

Buc-ee’s: Texas holds nearly two-thirds

Texas has 37 of Buc-ee’s 58 stores, about 64%. No other state has more than four. Alabama has four, Georgia three, and Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee two each.

Eight states have a single Buc-ee’s: Virginia, Ohio, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Mississippi, Missouri, and South Carolina.

What the contrast shows

Wawa is dense in a few states. Buc-ee’s is thin in many. Outside Texas, Buc-ee’s has 21 stores across 13 states, an average of about 1.6 per state.

Both counts are stores, not size. As Section 1 notes, one Buc-ee’s is many times larger than one Wawa, so state counts understate Buc-ee’s footprint. The next section looks at the states where the two brands overlap.

Where Do Buc-ee’s and Wawa Overlap?

Buc-ee’s and Wawa both have stores in six states: Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky, and Alabama. Wawa has more stores than Buc-ee’s in all six. 

Florida shows the widest gap, with 327 Wawa stores to 2 Buc-ee’s. Alabama is the closest match, with 8 Wawa stores to 4 Buc-ee’s.

Most of each network sits outside the overlap

Shared states hold only a small part of Buc-ee’s network. Of its 58 stores, 45 (about 78%) are in states with no Wawa. Texas accounts for 37 of them. The other Buc-ee’s-only states are Tennessee (2) and Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Mississippi, Missouri, and South Carolina (1 each).

Wawa’s network is also mostly outside the overlap. Of its 1,244 stores, 735 (about 59%) are in states and DC with no Buc-ee’s, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, and Indiana.

Put another way, 41% of Wawa’s stores are in a state that also has a Buc-ee’s. Only 22% of Buc-ee’s stores are in a state that also has a Wawa.

What this data can’t tell you

The data shows which states both brands serve. It does not show whether their stores serve the same drivers. Florida alone is a very large state, so sharing it says little about whether a Buc-ee’s and a Wawa sit near each other. Answering that would take distance analysis using store coordinates, the kind of competitor mapping businesses use in store expansion planning. 

Which Cities Have the Most Buc-ee’s and Wawa Stores?

Orlando has the most Wawa stores, with 35. Buc-ee’s has no city with more than three stores, and Angleton and Lake Jackson, Texas, tie for the lead.

Wawa: Orlando and Philadelphia lead

Orlando has 35 Wawa stores and Philadelphia has 31. Jacksonville (18) and Tampa (17) follow, so three of Wawa’s top four cities are in Florida.

Virginia has three cities in the top eight: Fredericksburg (12), Virginia Beach (11), and Richmond (10). Toms River, New Jersey, is eighth with 9. After that, many cities have between 5 and 8 stores.

Wawa’s top eight cities hold 143 stores, about 11.5% of its 1,244. The network is concentrated by state but spread by city: the 1,244 stores sit in 665 cities.

Buc-ee’s: one store per city, with four exceptions

Four Buc-ee’s cities have more than one store, all in Texas: Angleton (3), Lake Jackson (3), Freeport (2), and Pearland (2). Those four cities hold 10 stores. The other 48 stores are in 48 different cities, one each.

Outside Texas, every Buc-ee’s city has a single store. Examples include Athens and Auburn in Alabama, Adairsville in Georgia, Daytona Beach in Florida, Benton in Arkansas, Berthoud in Colorado, Goodyear in Arizona, Huber Heights in Ohio, Florence in South Carolina, and Kodak in Tennessee.

What the city view adds

At the state level, both brands look clustered. At the city level, Wawa builds multiple stores per city, while Buc-ee’s mostly places one. City counts use the dataset’s city names, so suburbs count separately. Philadelphia’s 31 does not include nearby Bensalem (5), Media (5), or Cherry Hill (6), and metro-area totals would be higher.

What the Buc-ee’s vs Wawa Data Shows

Buc-ee’s and Wawa build their networks in different ways. Wawa has 1,244 stores, with about 93% of them in six states, led by Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Buc-ee’s has 58 stores, with about 64% in Texas.

The two brands share only six states: Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky, and Alabama. About 78% of Buc-ee’s stores and about 59% of Wawa’s sit in states where the other brand has no stores.

These figures come from one dataset snapshot and count stores, not sales, traffic, or store size. They show where each brand has built, not which one is doing better.

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