Belgrade, MT Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Bozeman, MT MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
783 Google reviews across 9 Belgrade car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 1
- lead: Rocky Mountain Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.66★
- +0.25 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.7%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 67% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 11,425
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 4,727
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 1,269
- 1.5× denser than the national MSA median
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 1 chain and 7 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 66.7% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 783 Google reviews, 354 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Belgrade, MT · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Belgrade's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 66.7% 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.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.66★; damage runs 1.7%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.87★ on its own. Staff stands out positively (0.94/+1). 783 Google reviews back the analysis, 354 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Belgrade, MT
Ranked by Google review rating
About Belgrade, MT
How many car washes are in Belgrade, MT?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Belgrade, MT?
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Which car wash chains operate in Belgrade, MT?
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What is the median household income near Belgrade car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Belgrade, MT?
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What kinds of car washes does Belgrade have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Belgrade runs as a single-format city for car washing. 66.7% of classified locations are detail shop — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.87★ (6 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.33★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 66.7% | 461 | 4.87 | 0.96% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 2 | 22.2% | 295 | 4.33 | 3.31% | 6.3% |
| Full Service | 1 | 11.1% | 27 | 4.80 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Belgrade car washes?
Income context is most useful in Belgrade 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 9 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $88K AGI/return, 4.76★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 9 | 783 | 4.66 | Detail Shop (6) |
| $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★. Belgrade'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 Belgrade car washes?
In Belgrade, the chain rank below is closely tied to format dominance — the largest operators tend to be the ones that built out the dominant detail shop at scale. Per-chain quality numbers help separate format-correlated signal from operator-correlated signal.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Rocky Mountain Car Wash | 2 | 295 | 4.33 | 3.31% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Belgrade car washes?
354 reviews feed the aspect grid below; -1…+1 scale, computed as (pos − neg) / total. detail shop's aspect signature drives most of these numbers.
Where are the 9 car washes in Belgrade, MT?
The location table below is shaped heavily by Belgrade's format dominance — most high-volume sites operate as detail shop.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Car Wash 6399 Jackrabbit Ln | Belgrade, MT | Self-Serve Bay | Rocky Mountain Car Wash | 4.3 | 255 | $88K |
| Power Train Plus 5172 Jackrabbit Ln | Belgrade, MT | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 236 | $88K |
| Every Detail 152 Countryside Ln C | Belgrade, MT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 118 | $88K |
| Xcel Wrap and Detail 522 Jetway Dr E | Belgrade, MT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 53 | $88K |
| Rocky Mountain Car Wash 640 Alaska Frontage Rd | Belgrade, MT | Self-Serve Bay | Rocky Mountain Car Wash | 4.5 | 40 | $88K |
| Freedom Express Truck Wash, Inc. 603 Alaska Frontage Rd | Belgrade, MT | Full Service | — | 4.8 | 27 | $88K |
| The Finer Detail MT 122 Donjo Ave UNIT 2 | Belgrade, MT | Detail Shop | — | 4.4 | 23 | $88K |
| One Stop Auto Detailing LLC 658 Jetway Dr A | Belgrade, MT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 21 | $88K |
| Dubs Detail 120 Donjo Ave UNIT 1 | Belgrade, MT | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 10 | $88K |
Compare Belgrade to other car wash markets in the Bozeman 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 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Belgrade, MT car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/belgrade-mt
WashIndex. "Belgrade, MT car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/belgrade-mt.
"Belgrade, MT car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 22, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/belgrade-mt.
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Car wash inventory for Belgrade, MT is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Belgrade, 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 Bozeman MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 354 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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