Carrollton, TX Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
A read of Carrollton's car wash market built from 11,899 Google reviews across 18 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 18
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Carnation Auto Spa (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.54★
- +0.13 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 44% of classified
- Median single wash
- $11
- range $10–$23
- Median unlimited
- $20/mo
- cheapest $11/mo at Clean Freak Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 132,741
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 51,059
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 7,375
- 3.8× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.4
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 18 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 9 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.54★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 11,899 Google reviews, 4,217 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
18 car wash locations in Carrollton, TX · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Carrollton reads as a balanced car wash market — neither sharply consolidated nor unusually fragmented. 18 locations across 7 chains and 9 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 18-location market weighs in at 4.54★; damage rate 1.9%; cancel friction 16.0%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.81/+1). 11,899 Google reviews drive the analysis, 4,217 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 9 of 21 Carrollton locations with menus available: median single car wash $11 (range $10–$23), median unlimited membership $20/month (range $11–$23.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $11/mo at Clean Freak Car Wash (CLASSIC).
See the best-rated car washes in Carrollton, TX
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Carrollton, TX?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Carrollton, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 9 of 21 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (43% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Carrollton | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clean Freak Car Wash CLASSIC | $11/mo |
| 2 | Super Star Car Wash - Hwy 121 & Hebron Pkwy FIRST MONTH | $16/mo |
| 3 | Midway Carwash And Detail Super Works | $20/mo |
| 4 | Raceway Express Car Wash ARIZONA | $20/mo |
| 5 | Carnation Auto Spa Basic | $23/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Carrollton | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midway Carwash And Detail Quality Works | $10 |
| 2 | Clean Freak Car Wash CLASSIC | $10 |
| 3 | Carnation Auto Spa Basic | $11 |
| 4 | Carnation Auto Spa Basic | $11 |
| 5 | Take 5 Car Wash Wash | $12 |
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 Carrollton, TX
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 7 car-wash loans in Carrollton, TX worth $14.4M, at a median of $2,688,000 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 17% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open14% · $507K
- Acquisition14% · $3.1M
- Expansion / improvement71% · $2.7M
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 Carrollton, TX
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What kinds of car washes does Carrollton have?
Format counts below split Carrollton's 18 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: Detail Shop at 4.75★ (8 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.48★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 8 | 44.4% | 2,228 | 4.75 | 2.36% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 7 | 38.9% | 7,742 | 4.50 | 2.08% | 16.1% |
| Full Service | 3 | 16.7% | 1,929 | 4.48 | 0.87% | 15.3% |
What is the typical household income near Carrollton car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Carrollton tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 18 qualifying locations: -0.03 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $76K AGI/return, 4.63★.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $50K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 15 | 8,106 | 4.54 | Detail Shop (9) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 3 | 1,139 | 4.40 | Full Service (2) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 3 | 2,654 | 4.60 | Full Service (1) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
The highest-income tier ($150K+) contains 0 car washes across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★, against 0 sites across 0 ZIPs at 0.00★ in the lowest. Middle-income tiers typically host the densest express-tunnel concentrations — the part of the income curve where that format's unit economics are strongest.
Who operates the most Carrollton car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Carrollton 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 | Carnation Auto Spa | 2 | 1,533 | 4.60 | 0.79% | 16.4% | 0.79% |
| 2 | Super Star Car Wash | 2 | 2,989 | 4.56 | 1.69% | 10.8% | 2.61% |
| 3 | Clean Freak Car Wash | 1 | 365 | 3.80 | 8.16% | — | 1.36% |
| 4 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 3,088 | 4.50 | 1.48% | 25.3% | 1.37% |
| 5 | Clear Bra North Dallas | 1 | 68 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Raceway Express Car Wash | 1 | 210 | 4.50 | 2.99% | 18.2% | 0.00% |
| 7 | Feel Great Car Wash | 1 | 545 | 4.90 | 1.27% | 2.9% | 0.21% |
What do customers love and complain about at Carrollton 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. staff is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 18 car washes in Carrollton, TX?
18 car washes are tracked in Carrollton; 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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| Take 5 Car Wash 3240 E Trinity Mls Rd | Carrollton, TX | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.5 | 3,088 | $66K |
| Super Star Car Wash - Hwy 121 & Hebron Pkwy 1604 W Hebron Pkwy | Carrollton, TX | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,815 | $114K |
| Super Star Car Wash - Midway Rd & Belmeade Dr 2509 Midway Rd | Carrollton, TX | Express Tunnel | Super Star Car Wash | 4.5 | 1,174 | $66K |
| Carnation Auto Spa 1401 W Hebron Pkwy | Carrollton, TX | Full Service | Carnation Auto Spa | 4.6 | 816 | $114K |
| Carnation Auto Spa 3111 Old Denton Rd | Carrollton, TX | Full Service | Carnation Auto Spa | 4.6 | 717 | $86K |
| HydroClean Express Car Wash 1017 W Trinity Mills Rd | Carrollton, TX | Express Tunnel | — | 4.2 | 545 | $66K |
| Feel Great Car Wash - Josey Lane 1810 S Josey Ln | Carrollton, TX | Express Tunnel | Feel Great Car Wash | 4.9 | 545 | $66K |
| Midway Carwash And Detail 4020 Midway Rd | Carrollton, TX | Full Service | — | 4.0 | 396 | $86K |
| Clean Freak Car Wash 2469 Lacy Ln | Carrollton, TX | Express Tunnel | Clean Freak Car Wash | 3.8 | 365 | $66K |
| Perfection Auto Detail 1206 Tappan Cir | Carrollton, TX | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 268 | $66K |
Compare Carrollton to other car wash markets in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Carrollton, TX car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/carrollton-tx
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Car wash inventory for Carrollton, TX is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Carrollton, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 4,217 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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