Amarillo, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Amarillo, TX MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
42 car washes, 10 chains, 3,688 AI-extracted reviews — concentrated more than the typical US market. Operator concentration, per-chain quality, format mix, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 42
- Chains
- 10
- lead: Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash (7)
- Avg rating
- 4.57★
- +0.16 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 43% of classified
- Median single wash
- $28.60
- range $12–$50
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $22.95/mo at Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 200,945
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 78,612
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,784
- 2.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.3
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 42 car wash locations operated by 10 chains and 9 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 78.6% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash (7 sites).
- Built from 13,957 Google reviews, 3,688 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
42 car wash locations in Amarillo, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Amarillo stands out for how much chain rollup has reshaped supply. Across 42 tracked locations, the top ten operators control 78.6% of supply — above the 11.4% US-market median, with Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash the largest at 7 sites. Most of the quality variance below comes from chain-vs-chain differences rather than chain-vs-independent ones.
Average rating 4.57★ across 42 sites; damage 1.5%; cancel friction 11.7% of mem-discussing reviews. Equipment reliability is the sharpest friction point (-0.26). The chain-rank table below is the most actionable section on this page.
Published pricing across the 20 of 42 Amarillo locations with menus available: median single car wash $28.60 (range $12–$50), median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $22.95–$31/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $22.95/mo at Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash (Basic Wash Pass).
See the best-rated car washes in Amarillo, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Amarillo, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Amarillo, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 20 of 42 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (48% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Amarillo | ||
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| 1 | Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash Basic Wash Pass | $22.95/mo |
| 2 | Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash Basic Wash Pass | $22.95/mo |
| 3 | Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash Basic Wash Pass | $22.95/mo |
| 4 | Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash Basic Wash Pass | $22.95/mo |
| 5 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Amarillo | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take 5 Car Wash Wash | $12 |
| 2 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $14 |
| 3 | Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Amarillo East, TX Flat Trailer | $28.60 |
| 4 | Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Amarillo West, TX Flat Trailer | $28.60 |
| 5 | Toot'n Totum Seat Treatment | $50 |
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.
About Amarillo, TX
How many car washes are in Amarillo, TX?
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What kinds of car washes does Amarillo have?
Because chain operators have consolidated supply here, format counts below skew toward the formats those chains build at scale. The lowest-rated format is usually a long-tail mix of small operators rather than a meaningful share of the market.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.72★ (11 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 3.90★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 18 | 42.9% | 11,075 | 4.65 | 1.66% | 9.9% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 11 | 26.2% | 403 | 4.02 | 1.72% | 50.0% |
| Detail Shop | 11 | 26.2% | 1,174 | 4.72 | 0.42% | 45.5% |
| Full Service | 2 | 4.8% | 1,305 | 3.90 | 1.98% | — |
What is the typical household income near Amarillo car washes?
The scatter below joins IRS Statistics-of-Income (mean AGI per return, 2022 tax year) to each car wash's ZIP. In Amarillo, where chains have aggressively rolled up supply, expect the densest car wash deployment in middle-to-upper-middle income ZIPs.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 42 qualifying locations: 0.25 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $87K AGI/return, 4.31★.
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 | 2 | 4 | 1,987 | 4.58 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 12 | 3,412 | 4.63 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 14 | 5,178 | 4.42 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 3 | 12 | 3,380 | 4.73 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) holds 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★; the lowest-income tier (Under $50K) holds 4 across 2 ZIPs at 4.58★. In a chain-consolidated market like Amarillo, the income mix mostly reads as a record of where the top operators chose to deploy — middle-income ZIPs typically anchor the densest rollouts.
Who operates the most Amarillo car washes?
10 chains operate in Amarillo, with the top ten holding 78.6% of supply. Damage rate, cancel friction, and per-aspect ratings are broken out per chain — useful for understanding which operators drive the metro's headline numbers.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toot'n Totum Express Car Wash | 7 | 183 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 7 | 7,890 | 4.70 | 1.55% | 3.3% | 0.43% |
| 3 | Phillips 66 | 6 | 282 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Pak-A-Sak | 4 | 98 | 3.47 | — | — | — |
| 5 | CA Auto Spa | 2 | 562 | 4.82 | 0.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 6 | Blue Beacon | 2 | 1,305 | 3.90 | 1.98% | — | 2.37% |
| 7 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 2,321 | 4.61 | 0.94% | 17.2% | 0.82% |
| 8 | Hurricane Beach Car Wash | 1 | 23 | 1.80 | — | — | — |
| 9 | IQ Car Wash | 1 | 241 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 440 | 4.70 | 3.33% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Amarillo car washes?
Staff is the strongest signal here (0.85); equipment reliability runs as the sharpest pain (-0.26). Useful as a quick check on which aspects Amarillo's consolidated supply does well at vs. poorly.
Where are the 42 car washes in Amarillo, TX?
Locations table below: ranked by review count, with format, chain affiliation, rating, and ZIP-level IRS AGI for context. In a consolidated market like Amarillo, the chain column is the most useful filter.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Quick Quack Car Wash 1901 Bell St | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,626 | $59K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 3574 S Soncy Rd | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,432 | $135K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 2806 S Georgia St | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,333 | $89K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1001 E Amarillo Blvd | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,165 | $36K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 2400 S Georgia St | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,039 | $89K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 5810 Coulter St S | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 988 | $135K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 4175 S Georgia St | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 933 | $53K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 4310 Coulter St S | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.6 | 924 | $89K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 1920 S Grand St | Amarillo, TX | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.4 | 771 | $43K |
| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Amarillo East, TX 8710 E I-40, I-40 Exit 75 | Amarillo, TX | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 3.9 | 767 | $85K |
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Car wash inventory for Amarillo, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Amarillo, 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 Amarillo MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 3,688 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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