Top 5 Car Wash Chains in Burlington
Burlington-South Burlington, VT
Data updated · May 22, 2026
The largest car wash operators in the Burlington metro by location count, drawn from 85 car washes across the Burlington-South Burlington, VT CBSA. 5 chain operators total alongside 75 independent or single-location sites.
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Champ Touchless Car Wash
3 sites in Burlington · 365 reviews - 🥈2
Shell
2 sites in Burlington · 43 reviews - 🥉3
Seaway Car Wash
2 sites in Burlington · 371 reviews - Full profile4
Splash Car Wash Express
2 sites in Burlington · 1,502 reviews · 4.22 - 5
Stewart's Shops
1 site in Burlington · 95 reviews
The Burlington car wash chain landscape is consolidated around a top-3 oligopoly (Champ Touchless Car Wash, Shell, Seaway Car Wash) that together control 70.0% of chain-affiliated locations. Across the full metro, 88.2% of all car washes operate as independents or single-location operators (75 of 85 sites) — an independent-heavy market where chains haven't pushed mom-and-pop competition out.
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Chains ranked by total location count inside the Burlington-South Burlington, VT CBSA, computed from a point-in-polygon test against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024). Each chain is identified via the WashIndex per-location chain assignment.
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