Cathedral City, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
A read of Cathedral City's car wash market built from 5,868 Google reviews across 9 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 9
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Quick Quack Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.75★
- +0.34 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.0%
- 1.6× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 44% of classified
- Median unlimited
- $24.99/mo
- cheapest $24.99/mo at Quick Quack Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 149,330
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 64,496
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 16,592
- 8.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.5
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 9 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 2 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.75★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 5,868 Google reviews, 1,460 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
9 car wash locations in Cathedral City, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Cathedral City's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 9 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 4.75★, damage 1.0%, cancel friction 7.1%. Staff strong (0.92); equipment reliability weak (0.14). 5,868 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,460 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 3 of 10 Cathedral City locations with menus available: median unlimited membership $24.99/month (range $24.99–$24.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $24.99/mo at Quick Quack Car Wash (Good).
See the best-rated car washes in Cathedral City, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Cathedral City, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Cathedral City, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 3 of 10 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (30% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Cathedral City | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| 2 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
| 3 | Quick Quack Car Wash Good | $24.99/mo |
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 Cathedral City, CA
How many car washes are in Cathedral City, CA?
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What kinds of car washes does Cathedral City have?
The format mix in Cathedral City reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.89★ (4 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.10★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 44.4% | 215 | 4.89 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 33.3% | 5,241 | 4.80 | 0.98% | 7.8% |
| Full Service | 1 | 11.1% | 352 | 4.10 | 2.17% | 0.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 11.1% | 60 | 3.80 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Cathedral City car washes?
Each ZIP in Cathedral City 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: 0.00 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $59K AGI/return, 4.67★.
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 | 5,868 | 4.75 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Cathedral City's 9 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Cathedral City car washes?
5 chains alongside 2 independents make up Cathedral City's car wash supply. The chain rank below shows the multi-location operators' position; the per-location detail near the bottom of the page captures the independent layer.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Quick Quack Car Wash | 3 | 5,241 | 4.80 | 0.98% | 7.8% | 0.33% |
| 2 | Jet Mobile Car Wash & Detailing | 1 | 33 | 4.80 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Desert Hand Car Wash | 1 | 352 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Melgar's Auto Detail Supplies | 1 | 65 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 5 | 76 | 1 | 60 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Cathedral City 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 9 car washes in Cathedral City, CA?
9 car washes are tracked in Cathedral City; 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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| Quick Quack Car Wash 68620 Ramon Rd | Cathedral City, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.8 | 2,207 | $59K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 68279 E Palm Canyon Dr | Cathedral City, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,634 | $59K |
| Quick Quack Car Wash 27815 Landau Blvd | Cathedral City, CA | Express Tunnel | Quick Quack Car Wash | 4.9 | 1,400 | $59K |
| Desert Hand Car Wash Cat City 67790 E Palm Canyon Dr | Cathedral City, CA | Full Service | Desert Hand Car Wash | 4.1 | 352 | $59K |
| Melgar's Auto Detail Supplies 32150 Candlewood Dr #4 | Cathedral City, CA | Detail Shop | Melgar's Auto Detail Supplies | 4.9 | 65 | $59K |
| 76 68855 Ramon Rd | Cathedral City, CA | In-Bay Automatic | 76 | 3.8 | 60 | $59K |
| Courtesy Mobile Detailing 34200 Linda Way | Cathedral City, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 48 | $59K |
| LVX Car Care - Mobile Detail 434 Via Milano | Cathedral City, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 46 | $59K |
| Jet Mobile Car Wash & Detailing 32150 Candlewood Dr #4 | Cathedral City, CA | Detail Shop | Jet Mobile Car Wash & Detailing | 4.8 | 33 | $59K |
Compare Cathedral City to other car wash markets in the Riverside 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). Cathedral City, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/cathedral-city-ca
WashIndex. "Cathedral City, CA car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 20, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/cathedral-city-ca.
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Car wash inventory for Cathedral City, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Cathedral City, 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 Riverside MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,460 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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