Bloomington, IL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Bloomington, IL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
A read of Bloomington's car wash market built from 2,350 Google reviews across 13 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 13
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Circle K (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.16★
- -0.25 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.5%
- 2.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 38% of classified
- Median single wash
- $22
- range $11–$28.60
- Median unlimited
- $24/mo
- cheapest $10/mo at On Track Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 78,703
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 34,217
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,054
- 3.1× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.2
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 13 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.16★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,350 Google reviews, 404 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
13 car wash locations in Bloomington, IL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Bloomington reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 13 locations across 5 chains and 6 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.16★; damage 3.5%; membership-cancel friction 13.9%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.47). 2,350 Google reviews drive the analysis, 404 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 6 of 13 Bloomington locations with menus available: median single car wash $22 (range $11–$28.60), median unlimited membership $24/month (range $10–$29.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $10/mo at On Track Car Wash (UNLIMITED MONTHLY WASHES).
See the best-rated car washes in Bloomington, IL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Bloomington, IL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Bloomington, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 6 of 13 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (46% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Bloomington | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On Track Car Wash UNLIMITED MONTHLY WASHES | $10/mo |
| 2 | Parkway Auto Laundry Experience - Exterior | $20.95/mo |
| 3 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $24/mo |
| 4 | Rainstorm Car Wash ULTIMATE | $29.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Bloomington | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Club Car Wash Rookie | $11 |
| 2 | On Track Car Wash BASIC | $14 |
| 3 | Rainstorm Car Wash ULTIMATE | $22 |
| 4 | Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Bloomington, IL Flat Trailer | $28.60 |
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 Bloomington, IL
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What kinds of car washes does Bloomington 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. Bloomington's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.48★ (5 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 3.90★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 38.5% | 372 | 4.48 | 1.18% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 30.8% | 1,176 | 4.25 | 4.76% | 13.9% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 15.4% | 26 | 3.81 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 15.4% | 776 | 3.90 | 3.23% | — |
What is the typical household income near Bloomington car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Bloomington tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 13 qualifying locations: -0.50 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $89K 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 |
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| Under $50K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 6 | 1,165 | 4.16 | Detail Shop (3) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 7 | 1,185 | 4.16 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
| $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 Bloomington car washes?
5 chains run sites in Bloomington; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Circle K | 2 | 26 | 3.81 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Rainstorm Car Wash | 2 | 577 | 3.97 | — | — | — |
| 3 | On Track Car Wash | 1 | 109 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Blue Beacon | 1 | 506 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Club Car Wash | 1 | 490 | 4.50 | 1.77% | — | 1.77% |
What do customers love and complain about at Bloomington car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 404 AI-extracted reviews across 13 Bloomington car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 13 car washes in Bloomington, IL?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Bloomington 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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| Blue Beacon Truck Wash of Bloomington, IL Exit 160, 408 Caroline St I-55 | Bloomington, IL | Full Service | Blue Beacon | 4.0 | 506 | $65K |
| Club Car Wash 2702 E Oakland Ave | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.5 | 490 | $106K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 814 N Main St | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 4.0 | 380 | $65K |
| Parkway Auto Laundry 1701 Morrissey Dr | Bloomington, IL | Full Service | — | 3.7 | 270 | $106K |
| Rainstorm Car Wash 2805 E Empire St | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | Rainstorm Car Wash | 3.9 | 197 | $106K |
| Ziebart 2023 Ireland Grove Rd | Bloomington, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 150 | $106K |
| On Track Car Wash 1509 E Vernon Ave | Bloomington, IL | Express Tunnel | On Track Car Wash | 4.6 | 109 | $65K |
| The Auto Protection Specialists 603 S Center St | Bloomington, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 78 | $65K |
| Top Notch Detail Studio 1707 E Hamilton Rd Suite 2B | Bloomington, IL | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 65 | $65K |
| Eastland Auto Wash 1705 Eastland Dr | Bloomington, IL | Detail Shop | — | 3.3 | 52 | $106K |
Compare Bloomington to other car wash markets in the Bloomington metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Bloomington, IL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/bloomington-il
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Car wash inventory for Bloomington, IL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Bloomington, 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 Bloomington MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 404 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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