Bellevue, NE Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Omaha, NE-IA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,561 Google reviews across 13 car washes in Bellevue. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 13
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Big John’s Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.33★
- -0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 4.0%
- 2.6× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 38% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 64,355
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 25,080
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 4,950
- 2.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.0
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 13 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.33★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,561 Google reviews, 667 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
13 car wash locations in Bellevue, NE · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
No single structural signal jumps out for Bellevue — it's a mid-shape car wash market. 13 locations across 7 chains and 5 independents. Customer-experience signals across 667 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.33★, damage 4.0%, cancel friction 22.2%. Staff strong (0.68); equipment reliability weak (-0.67). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
See the best-rated car washes in Bellevue, NE
Ranked by Google review rating
About Bellevue, NE
How many car washes are in Bellevue, NE?
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What is the median household income near Bellevue car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Bellevue, NE?
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What kinds of car washes does Bellevue have?
Format counts below split Bellevue's 13 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Express Tunnel at 4.37★ (5 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.87★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 5 | 38.5% | 2,080 | 4.37 | 4.35% | 22.5% |
| Detail Shop | 4 | 30.8% | 91 | 4.89 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 3 | 23.1% | 308 | 3.87 | 2.33% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 7.7% | 82 | 4.20 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Bellevue car washes?
13 Bellevue car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 13 qualifying locations: 0.30 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $70K AGI/return, 4.34★.
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 | 2 | 6 | 417 | 4.00 | Self-Serve Bay (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 7 | 2,144 | 4.39 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 0/0.00★ 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 Bellevue car washes?
7 chains alongside 5 independents make up Bellevue'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big John’s Car Wash | 2 | 292 | 3.89 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 64 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 244 | 4.30 | 5.88% | 22.6% | 0.00% |
| 4 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 482 | 4.10 | 7.30% | 35.5% | 5.06% |
| 5 | Cornhusker Auto Wash | 1 | 1,252 | 4.50 | 2.03% | — | 0.41% |
| 6 | Sharp Image | 1 | 14 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Bucky's Convenience Stores | 1 | 38 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Bellevue car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 13 car washes in Bellevue, NE?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Bellevue market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Cornhusker Auto Wash 10205 S 25th St | Bellevue, NE | Express Tunnel | Cornhusker Auto Wash | 4.5 | 1,252 | $76K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 2008 Cornhusker Rd | Bellevue, NE | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.1 | 482 | $76K |
| Club Car Wash 12811 S 22nd St | Bellevue, NE | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.3 | 244 | $76K |
| Big John’s Car Wash 307 W Mission Ave | Bellevue, NE | Self-Serve Bay | Big John’s Car Wash | 3.8 | 155 | $63K |
| Big John’s Car Wash 6911 S 41st Ave | Bellevue, NE | Self-Serve Bay | Big John’s Car Wash | 4.0 | 137 | $61K |
| 24 Hour Super Wash 1429 Fort Crook Rd N | Bellevue, NE | Full Service | — | 4.2 | 82 | $63K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 11533 S 31st St | Bellevue, NE | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.5 | 64 | $76K |
| Bryan's Showroom Quality Mobile Detailing 1907 Arlington Cir | Bellevue, NE | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 43 | $76K |
| Bucky's Convenience Stores 3003 Samson Way | Bellevue, NE | Express Tunnel | Bucky's Convenience Stores | 4.0 | 38 | $76K |
| Mr. Mobile Auto Detail 10807 S 18th St | Bellevue, NE | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 21 | $76K |
Compare Bellevue to other car wash markets in the Omaha 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 22). Bellevue, NE car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/bellevue-ne
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Car wash inventory for Bellevue, NE is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Bellevue, 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 Omaha MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 667 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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