Broomfield, CO Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
1,747 Google reviews across 12 Broomfield car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Waterway Carwash (1)
- Avg rating
- 4.05★
- -0.36 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 5.1%
- 3.3× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 58% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 75,110
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 30,921
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,259
- 3.2× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.6
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 7 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 58.3% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 1,747 Google reviews, 587 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Broomfield, CO · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Broomfield's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 58.3% 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 4.05★; damage runs 5.1%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.78★ on its own. Facility cleanliness stands out positively (0.79/+1). 1,747 Google reviews back the analysis, 587 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Broomfield, CO
Ranked by Google review rating
About Broomfield, CO
How many car washes are in Broomfield, CO?
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What is the median household income near Broomfield car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Broomfield, CO?
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What kinds of car washes does Broomfield have?
Format dominance is the structural story here. 7 of the 12 car washes in Broomfield 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 4.78★ (7 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 3.40★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 58.3% | 425 | 4.78 | 0.46% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 16.7% | 673 | 4.13 | 5.96% | 13.2% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 16.7% | 118 | 3.94 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 8.3% | 531 | 3.40 | 15.38% | 22.2% |
What is the typical household income near Broomfield car washes?
Because Broomfield 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 12 qualifying locations: 0.18 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $115K AGI/return, 4.46★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 9 | 1,662 | 4.02 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 1 | 3 | 85 | 4.63 | Detail Shop (2) |
3 car washes at the top income tier (4.63★) vs. 0 at the bottom (0.00★). Detail shops concentrate in middle-income ZIPs — that's the part of the curve where the unit economics actually work.
Who operates the most Broomfield car washes?
Because Broomfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterway Carwash | 1 | 531 | 3.40 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Cobblestone Car Wash | 1 | 454 | 3.80 | 10.77% | — | 0.77% |
| 3 | Circle K | 1 | 24 | 3.70 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Whistle Express Car Wash | 1 | 219 | 4.80 | 1.94% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Conoco | 1 | 94 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Broomfield car washes?
Aspect averages below are heavily shaped by Broomfield's dominant format. Since 58.3% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop, the aspect mix is closer to a detail shop read than to a multi-format average.
Where are the 12 car washes in Broomfield, CO?
12 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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| Waterway Carwash 44 W Flatiron Crossing Dr | Broomfield, CO | Full Service | Waterway Carwash | 3.4 | 531 | $87K |
| Cobblestone Car Wash 11255 Main St | Broomfield, CO | Express Tunnel | Cobblestone Car Wash | 3.8 | 454 | $98K |
| Whistle Express Car Wash 5560 W 120th Ave | Broomfield, CO | Express Tunnel | Whistle Express Car Wash | 4.8 | 219 | $98K |
| Make It Shine 580 Burbank St # 100 | Broomfield, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 188 | $98K |
| Conoco 10128 Wadsworth Pkwy | Broomfield, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Conoco | 4.0 | 94 | $87K |
| On The Go Mobile Auto Detail & Wash 2140 W 10th Ave | Broomfield, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 63 | $98K |
| Aerosuds Accessories 135 Alter St | Broomfield, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.2 | 58 | $98K |
| KJ Detailing 15522 Irving St | Broomfield, CO | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 45 | $175K |
| Polished Auto Styling 555 Alter St | Broomfield, CO | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 40 | $98K |
| Circle K | Car Wash 895 W 136th Ave | Broomfield, CO | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 3.7 | 24 | $175K |
Compare Broomfield to other car wash markets in the Denver metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
Data as of 2026-05-20. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Broomfield, CO car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/broomfield-co
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Car wash inventory for Broomfield, CO is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Broomfield, 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 Denver MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 587 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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