Acworth, GA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
Acworth: 8 car wash locations, structurally tilted toward detail shop. Per-format breakdown, operator dominance within the leading format, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 8
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Mister Car Wash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.63★
- +0.22 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.2%
- 1.3× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 63% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 196,407
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 69,676
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 24,551
- 12.7× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.4
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 8 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 6 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 62.5% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 1,925 Google reviews, 646 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
8 car wash locations in Acworth, GA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Acworth's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 62.5% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how detail shop performs at scale.
Headline operating signals: 4.63★ rating, 1.2% damage, 17.4% cancel friction. Aspect-level: Staff strong (0.88), equipment reliability weak (0.00). 1,925 Google reviews back the analysis, 646 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Acworth, GA
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Acworth, GA
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Acworth, GA worth $8.8M, at a median of $1,991,000 per car wash. About 40% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open40% · $1.3M
- Acquisition40% · $3.1M
- Expansion / improvement20% · $50K
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 Acworth, GA
How many car washes are in Acworth, GA?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Acworth, GA?
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Which car wash chains operate in Acworth, GA?
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What is the median household income near Acworth car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Acworth, GA?
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What kinds of car washes does Acworth have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Acworth runs as a single-format city for car washing. 62.5% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.99★ (5 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.51★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detail Shop | 5 | 62.5% | 473 | 4.99 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 37.5% | 1,452 | 4.51 | 1.99% | 17.8% |
What is the typical household income near Acworth car washes?
Income context is most useful in Acworth for understanding where detail shop clusters: typically in suburban middle-income ZIPs where its unit economics work. The scatter below makes the pattern visible.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 8 qualifying locations: -0.62 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $89K AGI/return, 4.70★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 3 | 252 | 5.00 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 6 | 1,673 | 4.57 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top tier 0 sites at 0.00★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Acworth's detail shop skew means the income mix reads less as "which formats serve which neighborhoods" and more as "where this one format reaches its limits".
Who operates the most Acworth car washes?
2 chains compete in Acworth, with the top names typically being heavy detail shop operators. The damage and cancel-friction columns below tell you which chains do this format well and which do it poorly.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 530 | 4.20 | 3.42% | — | 5.13% |
| 2 | Caliber Car Wash | 1 | 791 | 4.80 | 1.21% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Acworth car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.88); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (0.00).
Where are the 8 car washes in Acworth, GA?
Top locations by review count in Acworth. With 62.5% of classified sites running as detail shop, the format column below reads consistently rather than varying across the list.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caliber Car Wash - Acworth 3325 Cobb Pkwy NW | Acworth, GA | Express Tunnel | Caliber Car Wash | 4.8 | 791 | $100K |
| Mister Car Wash 3530 Cobb Pkwy N | Acworth, GA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 530 | $100K |
| Splash of Class Ackworth, Ga 3403 Baker Rd | Acworth, GA | Express Tunnel | — | 4.0 | 131 | $100K |
| Dunlap Detailing 157 Bryon Ln | Acworth, GA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 119 | $70K |
| Strong Arm Detail, Ceramic Coating & Restoration 1053 Adams Haven Bend | Acworth, GA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 98 | $100K |
| Phantom Auto Shield 1573 Boxwood Trce NW | Acworth, GA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 80 | $70K |
| Auto Renewal - Mobile Detailing 5027 Hamby Rd | Acworth, GA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 53 | $70K |
| PERSONAL TOUCH AUTO DETAILING 4437 Talisker Ln | Acworth, GA | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 12 | $100K |
Compare Acworth to other car wash markets in the Atlanta metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
Data as of 2026-06-09. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Acworth, GA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/acworth-ga
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Car wash inventory for Acworth, GA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Acworth, 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 Atlanta MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 646 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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