Clarksville, TN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Clarksville, TN-KY MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
8,051 Google reviews across 26 Clarksville car washes — a express tunnel-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 26
- Chains
- 8
- lead: Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.49★
- +0.08 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- 1.2× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 62% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 171,897
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 64,863
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,611
- 3.4× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 2.5
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 26 car wash locations operated by 8 chains and 11 independents.
- Express tunnel dominates: 61.5% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 8,051 Google reviews, 3,173 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
26 car wash locations in Clarksville, TN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Clarksville's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward express tunnel. 61.5% of formally-classified locations operate as express tunnel; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how express tunnel performs at scale.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.49★; damage runs 1.9%. The dominant express tunnel averages 4.45★ on its own. Equipment reliability runs as the friction point (-0.46). 8,051 Google reviews back the analysis, 3,173 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Clarksville, TN
Ranked by Google review rating
About Clarksville, TN
How many car washes are in Clarksville, TN?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Clarksville, TN?
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Which car wash chains operate in Clarksville, TN?
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What is the median household income near Clarksville car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Clarksville, TN?
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What kinds of car washes does Clarksville have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Clarksville runs as a single-format city for car washing. 61.5% of classified locations are express tunnel — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.91★ (9 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.45★ (16 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express Tunnel | 16 | 61.5% | 7,251 | 4.45 | 2.16% | 15.2% |
| Detail Shop | 9 | 34.6% | 779 | 4.91 | 0.47% | 0.0% |
| Full Service | 1 | 3.8% | 21 | 4.70 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Clarksville car washes?
26 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With express tunnel carrying 61.5% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 26 qualifying locations: -0.09 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $62K AGI/return, 4.56★.
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 | 1 | 11 | 3,640 | 4.57 | Express Tunnel (7) |
| $50K – $75K | 1 | 8 | 1,773 | 4.44 | Express Tunnel (4) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 7 | 2,638 | 4.42 | Express Tunnel (5) |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Highest vs. lowest income tier: 0 sites/0.00★ vs. 11 sites/4.57★. Where the dominant format runs 61.5% of classified sites, the per-tier breakdown mostly reflects how that single format ranges across income levels.
Who operates the most Clarksville car washes?
In Clarksville, the chain rank below is closely tied to format dominance — the largest operators tend to be the ones that built out the dominant express tunnel at scale. Per-chain quality numbers help separate format-correlated signal from operator-correlated signal.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash | 3 | 932 | 3.94 | 8.18% | — | 0.91% |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 3 | 1,637 | 4.35 | 4.82% | 8.0% | 1.20% |
| 3 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 95 | 4.12 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 2,903 | 4.59 | 0.99% | 15.8% | 0.46% |
| 5 | Washtopia | 2 | 519 | 4.42 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Whistle Express Car Wash | 1 | 299 | 4.60 | 1.15% | 11.1% | 0.77% |
| 7 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 470 | 4.70 | 1.56% | 27.0% | 0.94% |
| 8 | Whitecap Car Wash | 1 | 211 | 4.80 | 2.46% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Clarksville car washes?
3,173 reviews feed the aspect grid below; -1…+1 scale, computed as (pos − neg) / total. express tunnel's aspect signature drives most of these numbers.
Where are the 26 car washes in Clarksville, TN?
26 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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| Take 5 Car Wash 1828 Tiny Town Rd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,868 | $50K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 2200 Madison St | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,035 | $88K |
| Mister Car Wash 2640 Wilma Rudolph Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 742 | $58K |
| Mister Car Wash 1820 Wilma Rudolph Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 501 | $58K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 1768 Madison St | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.7 | 470 | $88K |
| Mister Car Wash 30 Dover Crossing Rd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.4 | 394 | $50K |
| Washtopia 209 Providence Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Washtopia | 4.5 | 378 | $50K |
| Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash 2159 Fort Campbell Blvd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash | 4.0 | 327 | $50K |
| Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash 1992 Madison St | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Screaming Eagle Express Car Wash | 4.1 | 321 | $88K |
| Whistle Express Car Wash 2530 Pea Ridge Rd | Clarksville, TN | Express Tunnel | Whistle Express Car Wash | 4.6 | 299 | $58K |
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Clarksville, TN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/clarksville-tn
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Car wash inventory for Clarksville, TN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Clarksville, 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 Clarksville MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 3,173 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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