Bloomington, IN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Bloomington, IN MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
1,790 Google reviews across 9 Bloomington car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 2
- lead: Crew Carwash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.41★
- Damage rate
- 5.2%
- 3.3× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 56% of classified
- Median single wash
- $12
- range $12–$12
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 78,791
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 33,372
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,755
- 4.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.9
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 6 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 55.6% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 1,790 Google reviews, 328 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Bloomington, IN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Bloomington's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 55.6% 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 4.41★; damage runs 5.2%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.51★ on its own. Equipment reliability runs as the friction point (-0.78). 1,790 Google reviews back the analysis, 328 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
Published pricing across the 1 of 9 Bloomington locations with menus available: median single car wash $12 (range $12–$12).
See the best-rated car washes in Bloomington, IN
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Bloomington, IN?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Bloomington, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 1 of 9 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (11% coverage).
| Cheapest single car washes in Bloomington | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green Clean Eco Express Carwash Basic | $12 |
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, IN
How many car washes are in Bloomington, IN?
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What is the median household income near Bloomington car washes?
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What kinds of car washes does Bloomington have?
Format dominance is the structural story here. 5 of the 9 car washes in Bloomington run as detail shop. The mini-table below shows how the rest of the market splits.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.51★ (5 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.37★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detail Shop | 5 | 55.6% | 618 | 4.51 | 2.52% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 33.3% | 1,150 | 4.37 | 8.72% | 13.6% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 11.1% | 22 | 3.50 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Bloomington car washes?
Because Bloomington is detail shop-dominant, the income scatter below mostly reads as a study of how that one format ranges across income tiers. The other formats show up as small splotches at the long tail.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 9 qualifying locations: 0.11 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $74K AGI/return, 4.39★.
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 | 7 | 1,538 | 4.36 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 1 | 45 | 3.80 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 1 | 207 | 4.90 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top tier 0 sites at 0.00★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Bloomington'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 Bloomington car washes?
Because Bloomington skews so heavily to one format, the chain rank reads like a ranking of how well each chain executes that format. Locations, reviews, ratings, and operational signals follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Crew Carwash | 2 | 1,134 | 4.38 | 8.76% | — | 1.46% |
| 2 | SmartWash | 1 | 22 | 3.50 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Bloomington car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.70); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.78).
Where are the 9 car washes in Bloomington, IN?
9 locations; the most-reviewed are shown below. In a format-concentrated market, the location table is mostly a leaderboard for the dominant format's top operators.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Crew Carwash 3430 W 3rd St | Bloomington, IN | Express Tunnel | Crew Carwash | 4.4 | 1,089 | $71K |
| Ziebart 2440 W 3rd St | Bloomington, IN | Detail Shop | — | 4.1 | 301 | $71K |
| TKS Mobile Detailing 3446 S Oaklawn Cir | Bloomington, IN | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 207 | $100K |
| Executive Detailing 3131 N Westbury Village Dr #4 | Bloomington, IN | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 52 | $71K |
| Everywhere Detailing 2626 N Walnut St | Bloomington, IN | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 45 | $71K |
| Crew Carwash 235 S Pete Ellis Dr | Bloomington, IN | Express Tunnel | Crew Carwash | 3.8 | 45 | $80K |
| KB WashWorld 4200 N Kemp Rd | Bloomington, IN | In-Bay Automatic | SmartWash | 3.5 | 22 | $71K |
| Green Clean Eco Express Carwash 2002 W 3rd St | Bloomington, IN | Express Tunnel | — | 4.1 | 16 | $71K |
| The Shine Shop 6574 W May Rd | Bloomington, IN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 13 | $63K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Bloomington, IN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/bloomington-in
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Car wash inventory for Bloomington, IN 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 328 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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