Camarillo, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
1,573 Google reviews across 9 car washes in Camarillo. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 4
- lead: 76 (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.15★
- -0.26 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 6.1%
- 3.9× MSA norm
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 33% of classified
- Median single wash
- $11
- range $5–$11
- Median unlimited
- $19.99/mo
- cheapest $19.99/mo at Waterdrops Express Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 70,244
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 26,068
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 7,805
- 4.0× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.4
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.15★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,573 Google reviews, 196 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Camarillo, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Camarillo's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 9 locations across 4 chains and 4 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.15★; damage 6.1%; membership-cancel friction 7.1%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.58). 1,573 Google reviews drive the analysis, 196 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 2 of 9 Camarillo locations with menus available: median single car wash $11 (range $5–$11), median unlimited membership $19.99/month (range $19.99–$19.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19.99/mo at Waterdrops Express Car Wash (Single Drop).
See the best-rated car washes in Camarillo, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Camarillo, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Camarillo, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 9 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (22% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Camarillo | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterdrops Express Car Wash Single Drop | $19.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Camarillo | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ponderosa Car Wash Tire Dressing | $5 |
| 2 | Waterdrops Express Car Wash Single Drop | $11 |
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 Camarillo, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Camarillo have?
Format counts below split Camarillo's 9 car wash locations by operating concept. Each format serves a different customer occasion — express tunnels for throughput, full-service for staffed convenience, detail shops for hand-finished work — and the rating column lets you read whether each format is meeting its own expectations here.
Highest-rated format in this market: Express Tunnel at 4.30★ (1 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.97★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 33.3% | 405 | 3.97 | 8.70% | — |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 22.2% | 95 | 5.00 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 2 | 22.2% | 462 | 4.08 | 8.33% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 11.1% | 395 | 4.30 | 7.06% | 7.7% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 11.1% | 216 | 4.00 | 3.70% | — |
What is the typical household income near Camarillo car washes?
Each ZIP in Camarillo 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 9 qualifying locations: -0.07 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $114K AGI/return, 4.12★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 2 | 9 | 1,573 | 4.15 | In-Bay Automatic (3) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Camarillo's 9 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Camarillo car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Camarillo by location count. Each row shows per-chain Google rating, damage rate, and cancel friction — the cleanest side-by-side cut on operator quality in the market.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76 | 2 | 331 | 4.06 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Waterdrops Express Car Wash | 1 | 395 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Oxnard Self Service Car Wash & Vacuums | 1 | 216 | 4.00 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Shell | 1 | 74 | 3.60 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Camarillo 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. membership value is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 9 car washes in Camarillo, CA?
9 car washes are tracked in Camarillo; 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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| Las Posas Car Wash & Lube Center 100 S Las Posas Rd | Camarillo, CA | Full Service | — | 4.2 | 420 | $112K |
| Waterdrops Express Car Wash 301 E Daily Dr | Camarillo, CA | Express Tunnel | Waterdrops Express Car Wash | 4.3 | 395 | $112K |
| Camarillo Self Service Car Wash & Vacuums 1480 E Daily Dr | Camarillo, CA | Self-Serve Bay | Oxnard Self Service Car Wash & Vacuums | 4.0 | 216 | $112K |
| 76 100 S Las Posas Rd | Camarillo, CA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 4.1 | 185 | $112K |
| 76 2911 Petit St | Camarillo, CA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 4.0 | 146 | $134K |
| Shell 1604 Ventura Blvd | Camarillo, CA | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 3.6 | 74 | $112K |
| Advance Detailing Experts 61 N Aviador St Unit I | Camarillo, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 73 | $112K |
| Ponderosa Car Wash 255 Arneill Rd | Camarillo, CA | Full Service | — | 2.9 | 42 | $112K |
| Melgoza Mobile Detailing - Camarillo 2249 Pickwick Dr | Camarillo, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 22 | $112K |
Compare Camarillo to other car wash markets in the Oxnard 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 22). Camarillo, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/camarillo-ca
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Car wash inventory for Camarillo, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Camarillo, 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 Oxnard MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 196 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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