Bronx, NY Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
4,952 Google reviews across 28 car wash locations in this chain-consolidated city market. Chain rank with rating + damage + cancel friction side-by-side; format mix and aspect signals follow.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 28
- Chains
- 2
- lead: bp (15)
- Avg rating
- 4.04★
- -0.37 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 54% of classified
- Median single wash
- $34.99
- range $19.99–$49.95
- Median unlimited
- $59.99/mo
- cheapest $23.99/mo at Boston Car Wash & Lube
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 1,419,250
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 530,067
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 50,688
- 26.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.0
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 28 car wash locations operated by 2 chains and 12 independents.
- Top 10 chains control 57.1% of locations — above the 11.4% US-market median, led by bp (15 sites).
- Built from 4,952 Google reviews, 424 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
28 car wash locations in Bronx, NY · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Among the US city markets we track, Bronx is a relatively consolidated example. 2 chains operate alongside 12 independents, but bp (15 sites) accounts for the largest single concentration. Most of the quality variance below comes from chain-vs-chain differences rather than chain-vs-independent ones.
Operating-quality aggregates: rating 4.04★, damage 1.9%, membership-cancel friction 23.1%. Equipment reliability is the sharpest friction point (-0.82). The chain-rank table below is the most actionable section on this page.
Published pricing across the 4 of 28 Bronx locations with menus available: median single car wash $34.99 (range $19.99–$49.95), median unlimited membership $59.99/month (range $23.99–$73.95/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $23.99/mo at Boston Car Wash & Lube (Super Wash).
See the best-rated car washes in Bronx, NY
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Bronx, NY?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Bronx, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 28 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (14% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Bronx | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston Car Wash & Lube Super Wash | $23.99/mo |
| 2 | Tremont Wash & Lube Ceramic Shine, | $59.99/mo |
| 3 | 2800 CAR WASH Kendall High Milage GT-1 Max | $73.95/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Bronx | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston Car Wash & Lube Super Wash | $19.99 |
| 2 | Tremont Wash & Lube Ceramic Shine, | $34.99 |
| 3 | Preferred AutoSpa Engine Bay Detail | $49.95 |
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.
Car wash financing in Bronx, NY
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 5 car-wash loans in Bronx, NY worth $2.9M, at a median of $275,000 per car wash. About 0% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- Acquisition20% · $2.1M
- Expansion / improvement60% · $275K
- Working capital20% · $25K
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) & 504 FOIA datasets (NAICS 811192), data through 2026-03-31. See the Car Wash Lending Tracker for national figures and methodology.
About Bronx, NY
How many car washes are in Bronx, NY?
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What kinds of car washes does Bronx have?
Because chain operators have consolidated supply here, format counts below skew toward the formats those chains build at scale. The lowest-rated format is usually a long-tail mix of small operators rather than a meaningful share of the market.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.20★ (7 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.87★ (15 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 15 | 53.6% | 1,175 | 3.87 | 0.96% | — |
| Detail Shop | 7 | 25.0% | 518 | 4.20 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 4 | 14.3% | 2,462 | 4.07 | 3.73% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 7.1% | 797 | 4.09 | 1.32% | 27.3% |
What is the typical household income near Bronx car washes?
The scatter below joins IRS Statistics-of-Income (mean AGI per return, 2022 tax year) to each car wash's ZIP. In Bronx, where chains have aggressively rolled up supply, expect the densest car wash deployment in middle-to-upper-middle income ZIPs.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 28 qualifying locations: 0.52 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $45K AGI/return, 4.03★.
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 | 13 | 20 | 4,346 | 4.01 | In-Bay Automatic (13) |
| $50K – $75K | 4 | 7 | 584 | 4.20 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 1 | 22 | 5.00 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) holds 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★; the lowest-income tier (Under $50K) holds 20 across 13 ZIPs at 4.01★. In a chain-consolidated market like Bronx, the income mix mostly reads as a record of where the top operators chose to deploy — middle-income ZIPs typically anchor the densest rollouts.
Who operates the most Bronx car washes?
The chain rank below is the more important section of this page given Bronx's consolidation. Top 10 operators control 57.1% of 28 locations, anchored by bp's 15-site footprint. Per-chain quality variance below explains most of the market-wide quality variance.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 15 | 1,175 | 3.87 | 0.96% | — | 0.00% |
| 2 | URBAN XPRESS WASH | 1 | 41 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Bronx car washes?
Facility cleanliness is the strongest signal here (0.60); equipment reliability runs as the sharpest pain (-0.82). Useful as a quick check on which aspects Bronx's consolidated supply does well at vs. poorly.
Where are the 28 car washes in Bronx, NY?
Locations table below: ranked by review count, with format, chain affiliation, rating, and ZIP-level IRS AGI for context. In a consolidated market like Bronx, the chain column is the most useful filter.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Westchester Ave Carwash & Lube 1440 Westchester Ave | Bronx, NY | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 935 | $37K |
| Boston Car Wash & Lube 2407 Boston Rd | Bronx, NY | Full Service | — | 4.0 | 799 | $42K |
| Tremont Wash & Lube 1095 E Tremont Ave | Bronx, NY | Express Tunnel | — | 4.1 | 756 | $36K |
| Parkchester Wash & Lube Inc. 1901 E Tremont Ave | Bronx, NY | Full Service | — | 4.1 | 699 | $49K |
| Showa Car Wash and Detailing Center 1131 E 233rd St | Bronx, NY | Detail Shop | — | 3.7 | 261 | $48K |
| bp 1 E 233rd St | Bronx, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.0 | 260 | $62K |
| bp 1365 Boston Rd | Bronx, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.1 | 167 | $34K |
| bp 601 E Fordham Rd | Bronx, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.0 | 163 | $35K |
| Sound Design Auto Spa & Alarms Inc 1579 Stillwell Ave | Bronx, NY | Detail Shop | — | 4.4 | 104 | $60K |
| bp 91 Westchester Square | Bronx, NY | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.8 | 96 | $60K |
Compare Bronx to other car wash markets in the New York 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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Car wash inventory for Bronx, NY is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Bronx, 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 New York MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 424 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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