Brandon, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA.
Data updated · September 26, 2026
Quality-outlier car wash market analysis for Brandon: 13 sites, 8,724 reviews, sharp deviation from chain-category norms. Damage-rate breakdown by operator + format, per-aspect customer reads, per-location detail.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 13
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Circle K (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.63★
- +0.22 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.6%
- 2.4× 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.
- Reviewer-reported damage rate of 0.6% runs 2.4× below the 1.6% US-market median.
- Built from 8,724 Google reviews, 3,149 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
13 car wash locations in Brandon, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Brandon stands out for operational-quality signals that are below the typical US market norm. Reviewer-reported damage runs at 0.6% across 13 tracked locations, vs. a peer median of 1.6%. Reading the operator-level breakdown below shows which segments drive the outlier signal.
Headline rating 4.63★; damage 0.6% (vs. 1.6% peer median). Staff runs positive (0.90); equipment reliability runs negative (-0.09). 8,724 Google reviews underpin the quality cut, 3,149 AI-extracted.
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
How many car washes are in Brandon, FL?
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What kinds of car washes does Brandon have?
Format mix in Brandon isn't where the distinctive story sits — the damage/quality signal at the top of the page is. Still, the per-format breakdown matters because damage rates concentrate inside specific formats (express tunnels typically run highest, hand-finished detail shops typically run lowest).
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.76★ (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% | 433 | 4.76 | 0.41% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 38.5% | 7,577 | 4.65 | 0.68% | 9.5% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 15.4% | 99 | 3.01 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 7.7% | 615 | 4.50 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Brandon car washes?
Income-vs-rating is the most useful structural-context cut for Brandon's elevated quality signal: it lets you see whether the damage/quality outlier is income-correlated or operator-correlated.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 13 qualifying locations: 0.10 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $66K AGI/return, 4.40★.
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 | 8,724 | 4.63 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
0 car washes in the highest-income tier at 0.00★ vs. 0 in the lowest at 0.00★. The interesting question for a quality-outlier market like Brandon is whether the damage/rating signal correlates with income — the per-tier breakdown is the cleanest cut on that.
Who operates the most Brandon car washes?
The chain rank below is where the quality-outlier picture decomposes. Per-chain damage rate, cancel friction, and rating tell you whether the metro's quality signal is a few chains' problem or a market-wide phenomenon.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Circle K | 2 | 99 | 3.01 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Jules Car Wash - Brandon | 1 | 603 | 4.00 | 3.33% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash | 1 | 826 | 3.80 | 2.14% | — | 4.29% |
| 4 | Washed Up Brandon | 1 | 1,308 | 4.60 | 0.15% | — | 0.15% |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 174 | 4.80 | 2.16% | — | 0.00% |
| 6 | Mr Splash USA | Cooper City | 1 | 223 | 4.60 | 0.71% | — | 0.00% |
| 7 | ModWash | 1 | 4,666 | 4.90 | 0.46% | 9.8% | 0.63% |
What do customers love and complain about at Brandon car washes?
Equipment reliability at -0.09 is the sharpest friction signal in Brandon — read alongside the elevated damage rate above for the operating story.
Where are the 13 car washes in Brandon, FL?
The locations table below is the right place to look in a quality-outlier market: it lets you see which specific sites carry the most review volume and how their ratings compare to the metro-wide average of 4.63★.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| ModWash 407 E Bloomingdale Ave | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 4,666 | $68K |
| Washed Up Brandon 834 E Brandon Blvd | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Washed Up Brandon | 4.6 | 1,308 | $68K |
| Mister Car Wash 9995 E Adamo Dr | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 3.8 | 826 | $53K |
| Parsons Ave Car Wash 123 S Parsons Ave | Brandon, FL | Self-Serve Bay | — | 4.5 | 615 | $68K |
| Jules Car Wash - Brandon 654 W Brandon Blvd | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Jules Car Wash - Brandon | 4.0 | 603 | $68K |
| Mr Splash USA Car Wash Brandon, Tampa 459 Brandon Town Center Dr | Brandon, FL | Detail Shop | Mr Splash USA | Cooper City | 4.6 | 223 | $68K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 423 W Brandon Blvd | Brandon, FL | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.8 | 174 | $68K |
| It's Time Auto Detailing / Clean Car Florida 1809 W Brandon Blvd E | Brandon, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 158 | $68K |
| Circle K 812 E Lumsden Rd | Brandon, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 2.9 | 63 | $68K |
| Circle K 11210 Causeway Blvd | Brandon, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 3.2 | 36 | $68K |
Compare Brandon to other car wash markets in the Tampa 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, September 26). Brandon, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/brandon-fl
WashIndex. "Brandon, FL car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified September 26, 2026. 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 3,149 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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