Bentonville, AR Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
3,476 Google reviews across 15 car washes in Bentonville. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Diamond Wash Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.45★
- Damage rate
- 3.1%
- 2.0× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 47% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 56,326
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 21,597
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 3,755
- 1.9× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.3
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 7 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.45★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,476 Google reviews, 1,319 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Bentonville, AR · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Bentonville sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 15 locations across 6 chains and 7 independents. Customer-experience signals across 1,319 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 15-location market weighs in at 4.45★; damage rate 3.1%; cancel friction 16.6%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.31). 3,476 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,319 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Bentonville, AR
Ranked by Google review rating
About Bentonville, AR
How many car washes are in Bentonville, AR?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Bentonville, AR?
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Which car wash chains operate in Bentonville, AR?
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What is the median household income near Bentonville car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Bentonville, AR?
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What kinds of car washes does Bentonville have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. Bentonville's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.94★ (7 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 3.20★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 46.7% | 666 | 4.94 | 0.34% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 33.3% | 2,260 | 4.34 | 4.82% | 21.9% |
| Full Service | 2 | 13.3% | 425 | 4.65 | 1.93% | 4.7% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 6.7% | 125 | 3.20 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Bentonville car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Bentonville tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 14 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $408K AGI/return, 4.58★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 1 | 14 | 3,453 | 4.45 | Detail Shop (6) |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 14 car washes across 1 ZIPs at 4.45★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Bentonville car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Bentonville by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diamond Wash Car Wash | 2 | 850 | 4.48 | 6.25% | — | 1.44% |
| 2 | Splash Car Wash | 2 | 425 | 4.65 | 1.93% | 4.7% | 1.54% |
| 3 | Torres Auto Detail & Window Tint | 1 | 135 | 4.90 | 0.94% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Zips Car Wash | 1 | 780 | 4.00 | 0.76% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 286 | 4.40 | 11.57% | — | 2.48% |
| 6 | Glide Xpress Car Wash | 1 | 344 | 4.70 | 2.63% | 25.7% | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Bentonville car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 1,319 AI-extracted reviews across 15 Bentonville car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 15 car washes in Bentonville, AR?
15 car washes are tracked in Bentonville; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Zips Car Wash 1004 S Walton Blvd | Bentonville, AR | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.0 | 780 | $408K |
| Diamond Wash Auto Spa 1401 SE Eagle Way | Bentonville, AR | Express Tunnel | Diamond Wash Car Wash | 4.5 | 690 | $408K |
| Glide Xpress Car Wash 801 SE Walton Blvd | Bentonville, AR | Express Tunnel | Glide Xpress Car Wash | 4.7 | 344 | $408K |
| Club Car Wash 216 SE Walton Blvd | Bentonville, AR | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.4 | 286 | $408K |
| Splash Car Wash 1907 SW Regional Airport Blvd | Bentonville, AR | Full Service | Splash Car Wash | 4.7 | 221 | $408K |
| Splash Car Wash 1005 S Walton Blvd | Bentonville, AR | Full Service | Splash Car Wash | 4.6 | 204 | $408K |
| High and Wide Detailing 9543 E Central Ave | Bentonville, AR | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 188 | $408K |
| Diamond Wash Car Wash 1840 E Centerton Blvd | Bentonville, AR | Express Tunnel | Diamond Wash Car Wash | 4.4 | 160 | $408K |
| Elite Mobile Detail- paint correction and ceramic coating 4 Geyer Rd | Bentonville, AR | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 150 | $408K |
| Torres Auto Detail & Window Tint 508 SW 14th St | Bentonville, AR | Detail Shop | Torres Auto Detail & Window Tint | 4.9 | 135 | $408K |
Compare Bentonville to other car wash markets in the Fayetteville 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). Bentonville, AR car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/bentonville-ar
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"Bentonville, AR car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 22, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/bentonville-ar.
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Car wash inventory for Bentonville, AR is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Bentonville, 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 Fayetteville MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,319 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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