Brandon, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
A read of Brandon's car wash market built from 8,463 Google reviews across 13 locations. Format breakdown, operator concentration, ZIP-income overlay, customer-experience aspect signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 13
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Circle K (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.61★
- +0.20 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.7%
- 2.3× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 38% of classified
- Median single wash
- $15
- range $10–$16.99
- Median unlimited
- $29.97/mo
- cheapest $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 116,365
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 45,008
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,951
- 4.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.1
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 13 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 5 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.61★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 8,463 Google reviews, 2,929 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
13 car wash locations in Brandon, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 13 car wash locations, Brandon matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 13 locations across 7 chains and 5 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.61★, damage 0.7%, cancel friction 9.5%. Staff strong (0.91); equipment reliability weak (-0.07). 8,463 Google reviews drive the analysis, 2,929 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 5 of 13 Brandon locations with menus available: median single car wash $15 (range $10–$16.99), median unlimited membership $29.97/month (range $22.99–$75/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $22.99/mo at Mister Car Wash (BASE).
See the best-rated car washes in Brandon, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Brandon, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Brandon, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 13 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (38% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Brandon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 2 | Jules Car Wash - Brandon Exterior Wash | $24.99/mo |
| 3 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $29.97/mo |
| 4 | Washed Up Brandon Platinum Wash Package | $44.99/mo |
| 5 | J’s Auto Detailing & Ceramic Coatings Engine-Bay Detail | $75/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Brandon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 2 | Jules Car Wash - Brandon Exterior Wash | $10 |
| 3 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $15 |
| 4 | Washed Up Brandon Basic | $16.99 |
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 Brandon, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Brandon have?
The format mix in Brandon reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.81★ (5 locations). Lowest: Self-Serve Bay at 4.50★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 5 | 38.5% | 418 | 4.81 | 0.43% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 38.5% | 7,342 | 4.63 | 0.73% | 9.5% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 15.4% | 95 | 2.91 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 7.7% | 608 | 4.50 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Brandon car washes?
13 Brandon 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: 0.08 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $66K AGI/return, 4.38★.
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 | 3 | 13 | 8,463 | 4.61 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, 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 Brandon car washes?
7 chains alongside 5 independents make up Brandon'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 | Circle K | 2 | 95 | 2.91 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Jules Car Wash - Brandon | 1 | 595 | 4.00 | 3.60% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 801 | 3.80 | 2.46% | — | 4.10% |
| 4 | Washed Up Brandon | 1 | 1,273 | 4.50 | 0.16% | — | 0.16% |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 149 | 4.70 | 2.54% | — | 0.00% |
| 6 | Mr Splash USA | Cooper City | 1 | 214 | 4.70 | 0.75% | — | 0.00% |
| 7 | ModWash | 1 | 4,524 | 4.90 | 0.49% | 9.8% | 0.55% |
What do customers love and complain about at Brandon 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 Brandon, FL?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Brandon 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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| ModWash 407 E Bloomingdale Ave | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 4,524 | $68K |
| Washed Up Brandon 834 E Brandon Blvd | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Washed Up Brandon | 4.5 | 1,273 | $68K |
| Mister Car Wash 9995 E Adamo Dr | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.8 | 801 | $53K |
| Parsons Ave Car Wash 123 S Parsons Ave | Brandon, FL | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.5 | 608 | $68K |
| Jules Car Wash - Brandon 654 W Brandon Blvd | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Jules Car Wash - Brandon | 4.0 | 595 | $68K |
| Mr Splash USA Car Wash Brandon, Tampa 459 Brandon Town Center Dr | Brandon, FL | Detail Shop | Mr Splash USA | Cooper City | 4.7 | 214 | $68K |
| It's Time Auto Detailing / Clean Car Florida 1809 W Brandon Blvd E | Brandon, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 152 | $68K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 423 W Brandon Blvd | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.7 | 149 | $68K |
| Circle K 812 E Lumsden Rd | Brandon, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 2.8 | 60 | $68K |
| Circle K 11210 Causeway Blvd | Brandon, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 3.1 | 35 | $68K |
Compare Brandon to other car wash markets in the Tampa metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Brandon, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/brandon-fl
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Car wash inventory for Brandon, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Brandon, 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 Tampa MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,929 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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