Burnsville, MN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
3,066 Google reviews across 10 car washes in Burnsville. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 5
- lead: bp (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.33★
- -0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$10
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 64,295
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 25,853
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,430
- 3.3× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.2
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 2 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.33★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 3,066 Google reviews, 720 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Burnsville, MN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 10 car wash locations, Burnsville matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 10 locations across 5 chains and 2 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Headline numbers sit near US-market norms: rating 4.33★, damage 1.5%, cancel friction 23.1%. Staff strong (0.71); equipment reliability weak (-0.75). 3,066 Google reviews drive the analysis, 720 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 2 of 11 Burnsville locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$10).
See the best-rated car washes in Burnsville, MN
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Burnsville, MN?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Burnsville, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 11 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (18% coverage).
| Cheapest single car washes in Burnsville | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Park Chrysler Jeep DELUXE WASH | $10 |
| 2 | Park Chrysler Jeep Car Wash DELUXE WASH | $10 |
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 Burnsville, MN
How many car washes are in Burnsville, MN?
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What kinds of car washes does Burnsville 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. Burnsville's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.68★ (2 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.70★ (5 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 5 | 50.0% | 312 | 3.70 | 1.85% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 30.0% | 2,204 | 4.33 | 1.53% | 23.1% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 20.0% | 550 | 4.68 | 1.45% | — |
What is the typical household income near Burnsville car washes?
Each ZIP in Burnsville is joined to IRS Statistics-of-Income (tax year 2022) and to the per-location Google rating dataset. The scatter below sizes dots by review volume and colors them by format.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $73K AGI/return, 4.07★.
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 | 1 | 10 | 2,711 | 4.29 | In-Bay Automatic (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 1 | 355 | 4.60 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $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 Burnsville car washes?
5 chains run sites in Burnsville; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | bp | 3 | 233 | 3.78 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Park Chrysler Jeep | 2 | 1,451 | 4.40 | 0.30% | — | 0.00% |
| 3 | Circle K | 1 | 28 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Bubble Barn Car Wash | 1 | 753 | 4.20 | 4.65% | — | 0.78% |
| 5 | Shell | 1 | 51 | 3.20 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Burnsville car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 720 AI-extracted reviews across 10 Burnsville car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 10 car washes in Burnsville, MN?
10 car washes are tracked in Burnsville; below is the top of the list by Google review count. Locations with fewer than 10 reviews are excluded from the rating column.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Park Chrysler Jeep 1408 Hwy 13 W | Burnsville, MN | Express Tunnel | Park Chrysler Jeep | 4.4 | 1,440 | $73K |
| Bubble Barn Car Wash 2350 County Rd 42 W | Burnsville, MN | Express Tunnel | Bubble Barn Car Wash | 4.2 | 753 | $73K |
| Driven 12040 Riverwood Dr | Burnsville, MN | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 144 | $73K |
| bp 14220 Grand Ave | Burnsville, MN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.5 | 112 | $73K |
| bp 12001 Co Rd 11 | Burnsville, MN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.4 | 77 | $73K |
| Shell 12340 Nicollet Ave | Burnsville, MN | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.2 | 51 | $73K |
| King Of Detailing 11940 12th Ave S | Burnsville, MN | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 51 | $73K |
| bp 501 W Burnsville Pkwy | Burnsville, MN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.4 | 44 | $73K |
| Holiday Stationstores | Car Wash 12290 Nicollet Ave | Burnsville, MN | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 4.0 | 28 | $73K |
| Park Chrysler Jeep Car Wash 1500 Hwy 13 W | Burnsville, MN | Express Tunnel | Park Chrysler Jeep | 3.9 | 11 | $73K |
Compare Burnsville 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). Burnsville, MN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/burnsville-mn
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Car wash inventory for Burnsville, MN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Burnsville, 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 720 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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