Bloomington, MN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
2,877 Google reviews across 13 car washes in Bloomington. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 13
- Chains
- 6
- lead: bp (4)
- Avg rating
- 4.31★
- -0.10 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.2%
- 2.1× MSA norm
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 54% of classified
- Median single wash
- $14.99
- range $12–$14.99
- Median unlimited
- $29.99/mo
- cheapest $25.99/mo at Tommy's Express® Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 88,838
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 37,724
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,834
- 3.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.3
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 13 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.31★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,877 Google reviews, 771 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
13 car wash locations in Bloomington, MN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Bloomington sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 6 chains compete alongside 4 independents — typical mix for a market of 13 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 771 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.31★, damage 3.2%, cancel friction 9.8%. Wait time strong (0.75); equipment reliability weak (-0.74). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 3 of 14 Bloomington locations with menus available: median single car wash $14.99 (range $12–$14.99), median unlimited membership $29.99/month (range $25.99–$34.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $25.99/mo at Tommy's Express® Car Wash (QUALITY).
See the best-rated car washes in Bloomington, MN
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Bloomington, MN?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Bloomington, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 3 of 14 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (21% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Bloomington | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $25.99/mo |
| 2 | Paradise Flex Service Car Wash & Detail Center Basic Wash | $29.99/mo |
| 3 | Bobby & Steve's Auto World XpresWash Unlimited Car Wash Program | $34.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Bloomington | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash QUALITY | $12 |
| 2 | Paradise Flex Service Car Wash & Detail Center Basic Wash | $14.99 |
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, MN
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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 4.77★ (4 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.00★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 7 | 53.8% | 1,606 | 4.24 | 0.58% | — |
| Detail Shop | 4 | 30.8% | 637 | 4.77 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 7.7% | 396 | 4.00 | 1.82% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 7.7% | 238 | 4.10 | 13.66% | 11.1% |
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: -0.18 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $83K AGI/return, 4.21★.
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 | 8 | 962 | 4.50 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 3 | 160 | 4.13 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 3 | 1,755 | 4.22 | 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?
6 chains alongside 4 independents make up Bloomington'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 |
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| 1 | bp | 4 | 231 | 3.95 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Circle K | 1 | 16 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Paradise Full Service Car Wash & Detail Center | 1 | 396 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Shell | 1 | 69 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 238 | 4.10 | 13.66% | 11.1% | 0.00% |
| 6 | Bobby & Steve's Auto World | 1 | 1,290 | 4.30 | 0.72% | — | 1.80% |
What do customers love and complain about at Bloomington car washes?
Seven aspects, 771 reviews, 13 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Bloomington's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 13 car washes in Bloomington, MN?
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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| Bobby & Steve's Auto World 7920 France Ave S | Bloomington, MN | In-Bay Automatic | Bobby & Steve's Auto World | 4.3 | 1,290 | $117K |
| Paradise Flex Service Car Wash & Detail Center 10820 Bush Lake Rd | Bloomington, MN | Full Service | Paradise Full Service Car Wash & Detail Center | 4.0 | 396 | $118K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 200 W Old Shakopee Rd | Bloomington, MN | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.1 | 238 | $65K |
| Ziebart 311 W 90th St | Bloomington, MN | Detail Shop | — | 4.3 | 170 | $65K |
| The Josh Wash 9200 5th Ave S | Bloomington, MN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 131 | $65K |
| Yedi Detailing 8310 Pillsbury Ave S | Bloomington, MN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 130 | $65K |
| bp 9200 Old Cedar Ave S | Bloomington, MN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.3 | 102 | $64K |
| bp 5150 W 98th St | Bloomington, MN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.8 | 72 | $98K |
| Shell 10800 Rhode Island Ave S | Bloomington, MN | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 4.1 | 69 | $118K |
| Cooler in the Shade 9737 Humboldt Ave S | Bloomington, MN | Detail Shop | — | 4.6 | 64 | $86K |
Compare Bloomington to other car wash markets in the Minneapolis 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 20). Bloomington, MN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/bloomington-mn
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Car wash inventory for Bloomington, MN 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 Minneapolis MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 771 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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