Apopka, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
1,005 Google reviews across 10 car washes in Apopka. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 2
- lead: bp (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.56★
- +0.15 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.3%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $15
- range $15–$15
- Median unlimited
- $30/mo
- cheapest $30/mo at Vision Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 56,202
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 18,876
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 5,620
- 2.9× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.5
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.56★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,005 Google reviews, 557 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Apopka, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Apopka — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 10 locations across 2 chains and 6 independents. Customer-experience signals across 557 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 10-location market weighs in at 4.56★; damage rate 1.3%; cancel friction 27.0%. Wash quality is the brightest aspect signal (0.93/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 1 of 11 Apopka locations with menus available: median single car wash $15 (range $15–$15), median unlimited membership $30/month (range $30–$30/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $30/mo at Vision Car Wash (BRONZE).
See the best-rated car washes in Apopka, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Apopka, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Apopka, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 1 of 11 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (9% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Apopka | ||
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| 1 | Vision Car Wash BRONZE | $30/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Apopka | ||
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| 1 | Vision Car Wash BRONZE | $15 |
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 Apopka, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Apopka have?
The format mix in Apopka reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.91★ (5 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.34★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 50.0% | 329 | 4.91 | 0.49% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 4 | 40.0% | 192 | 3.34 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 10.0% | 484 | 4.80 | 1.88% | 27.0% |
What is the typical household income near Apopka car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Apopka tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.45 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $64K AGI/return, 4.20★.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $50K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 8 | 496 | 4.31 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 2 | 494 | 4.80 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Apopka's 9 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Apopka car washes?
2 chains alongside 6 independents make up Apopka's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 3 | 155 | 3.45 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Circle K | 1 | 37 | 2.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Apopka car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 557 AI-extracted reviews across 10 Apopka car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 10 car washes in Apopka, FL?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Apopka. The full set of 10 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Vision Car Wash 355 W Orange Blossom Trail | Apopka, FL | Express Tunnel | — | 4.8 | 484 | $78K |
| Foam City Orlando Detailing 1201 Bear Lake Rd | Apopka, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 203 | $60K |
| bp 2115 S Orange Blossom Trail | Apopka, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.5 | 84 | $60K |
| A.X.K. Collision Center 805 S Park Ave | Apopka, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 63 | $60K |
| Circle K 2115 S Orange Blossom Trail | Apopka, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 2.9 | 37 | $60K |
| bp 277 E Main St | Apopka, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.2 | 37 | $60K |
| Amoco 3498 E Semoran Blvd | Apopka, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.6 | 34 | $60K |
| Headlight Genie- Orlando Mobile Headlight Restoration 722 Cavan Dr | Apopka, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 24 | $60K |
| EARL MOBILE DETAILING LLC 35 W Michael Gladden Blvd Apopka, FL 32703 | Apopka, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 15 | — |
| Red Dragon Mobile Detailing 2614 Breezy Meadow Rd | Apopka, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 10 | $78K |
Compare Apopka to other car wash markets in the Orlando metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Apopka, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/apopka-fl
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Car wash inventory for Apopka, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Apopka, 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 Orlando MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 557 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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