Abilene, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Abilene, TX MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Abilene's car wash market built from 4,996 Google reviews across 17 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 17
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Mister Car Wash (6)
- Avg rating
- 4.20★
- -0.21 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.5%
- 2.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 47% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$11
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 127,130
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 46,682
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 7,478
- 3.9× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 17 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 3 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.20★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,996 Google reviews, 1,030 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
17 car wash locations in Abilene, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Abilene reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 17 locations across 4 chains and 3 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.20★; damage 3.5%; membership-cancel friction 12.4%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.54). 4,996 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,030 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 8 of 19 Abilene locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$11), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $22.99–$22.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash (BASE).
See the best-rated car washes in Abilene, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Abilene, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Abilene, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 8 of 19 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (42% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Abilene | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 4 | Watershed Carwash BASIC | $22.99/mo |
| 5 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Abilene | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 5 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
Pricing scraped from operator websites where published; the WashIndex AI calling agent rings up locations that don’t publish menus online to capture pricing directly.
Car wash financing in Abilene, TX
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Abilene, TX worth $1.5M, at a median of $80,000 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 20% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open20% · $946K
- Expansion / improvement40% · $228K
- Working capital20% · $45K
- Unclassified20% · $57K
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) & 504 FOIA datasets (NAICS 811192), data through 2026-03-31. See the Car Wash Lending Tracker for national figures and methodology.
About Abilene, TX
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What kinds of car washes does Abilene have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. Abilene's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.92★ (2 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.94★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 8 | 47.1% | 3,428 | 4.14 | 4.94% | 12.8% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 5 | 29.4% | 710 | 3.94 | 3.57% | 0.0% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 11.8% | 615 | 4.92 | 0.34% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 11.8% | 243 | 4.07 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Abilene car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Abilene tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 17 qualifying locations: -0.07 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $68K AGI/return, 4.12★.
Car wash count and quality by income tier
Blue bars: location count per tier. Orange tick marks: average Google rating (same y-axis).
| Income tier (mean AGI/return) | ZIPs | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Top Format |
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| Under $50K | 1 | 1 | 247 | 4.10 | Self-Serve Bay (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 12 | 3,409 | 4.12 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 6 | 1,340 | 4.43 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 1/4.10★ at the lowest. In a balanced market, the per-tier read is most useful as a sanity check on whether the operating quality is income-uniform or income-stratified.
Who operates the most Abilene car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Abilene by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 6 | 2,902 | 4.17 | 5.19% | 8.7% | 2.23% |
| 2 | Super Suds Car Wash | 5 | 710 | 3.94 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Watershed Carwash | 2 | 526 | 3.98 | 3.88% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Conoco | 1 | 109 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Abilene car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 1,030 AI-extracted reviews across 17 Abilene car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 17 car washes in Abilene, TX?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Abilene. The full set of 17 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Mister Car Wash 4002 Buffalo Gap Rd | Abilene, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 800 | $62K |
| Mister Car Wash 2350 S 27th St | Abilene, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.9 | 770 | $62K |
| Mister Car Wash 501 S Judge Ely Blvd | Abilene, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 633 | $94K |
| Watershed Carwash 5009 US-277 | Abilene, TX | Express Tunnel | Watershed Carwash | 3.9 | 324 | $62K |
| Mister Car Wash 130 S Pioneer Dr | Abilene, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 323 | $62K |
| Mister Car Wash 6118 Buffalo Gap Rd | Abilene, TX | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 272 | $92K |
| Super Suds Car Wash 858 N Mockingbird Ln | Abilene, TX | Self-Serve Bay | Super Suds Car Wash | 4.1 | 247 | $41K |
| Phoenix 5 Star Elite Auto Detail 2489 S Danville Dr | Abilene, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 205 | $62K |
| Super Suds Car Wash 2126 S 14th St | Abilene, TX | Self-Serve Bay | Super Suds Car Wash | 3.9 | 204 | $62K |
| Watershed Carwash 2117 N Treadaway Blvd | Abilene, TX | Express Tunnel | Watershed Carwash | 4.1 | 202 | $61K |
Data as of 2026-06-09. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Abilene, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/abilene-tx
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Car wash inventory for Abilene, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Abilene, and further restricted to places whose format the WashIndex LLM classifier identified as a car wash (excluding dealerships, gas stations, and other auto-related businesses that don't primarily operate a car wash). Inclusion in the parent Abilene MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,030 customer reviews processed through WashIndex's 55-field LLM extraction pipeline. Format classification comes from a separate per-location website-reading classifier. ZIP-level income data is from the IRS Statistics of Income (tax year 2022) — mean Adjusted Gross Income per tax return, which is directionally aligned with ACS median household income but available without authentication.
See our full methodology for the extraction pipeline, validation samples, and aggregation logic. Term definitions in the glossary.
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