Clermont, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
A read of Clermont's car wash market built from 5,818 Google reviews across 15 locations. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Circle K (5)
- Avg rating
- 4.30★
- -0.11 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.8%
- Top format
- in-bay automatic
- 47% of classified
- Median single wash
- $10
- range $10–$25
- Median unlimited
- $22.99/mo
- cheapest $20/mo at Joe's Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 44,984
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 16,918
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 2,999
- 1.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 3.0
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 3 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.30★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 5,818 Google reviews, 1,652 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Clermont, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 15 car wash locations, Clermont matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 5 chains compete alongside 3 independents — typical mix for a market of 15 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 1,652 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Average rating across the 15-location market weighs in at 4.30★; damage rate 1.8%; cancel friction 18.3%. Facility cleanliness strong (0.87); equipment reliability weak (-0.26). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 5 of 16 Clermont locations with menus available: median single car wash $10 (range $10–$25), median unlimited membership $22.99/month (range $20–$29.97/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $20/mo at Joe's Car Wash (Peel N Go).
See the best-rated car washes in Clermont, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Clermont, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Clermont, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 16 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (31% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Clermont | ||
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| 1 | Joe's Car Wash Peel N Go | $20/mo |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 4 | Mister Car Wash BASE | $22.99/mo |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $29.97/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Clermont | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 3 | Mister Car Wash Base | $10 |
| 4 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash Simply Clean | $15 |
| 5 | Joe's Car Wash Lil-Glow | $25 |
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 Clermont, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Clermont have?
The format mix in Clermont 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 4.75★ (3 locations). Lowest: In-Bay Automatic at 3.79★ (7 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| In-Bay Automatic | 7 | 46.7% | 434 | 3.79 | 0.00% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 5 | 33.3% | 5,089 | 4.31 | 2.01% | 18.3% |
| Detail Shop | 3 | 20.0% | 295 | 4.75 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Clermont car washes?
15 Clermont car washes with at least 10 Google reviews are plotted below against the mean IRS AGI per return for their ZIP. The Pearson correlation we compute is one of the cleanest cuts on whether neighborhood income meaningfully shapes wash quality here.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 15 qualifying locations: 0.17 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $76K AGI/return, 4.13★.
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 | 4 | 1,923 | 4.34 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 12 | 3,895 | 4.28 | In-Bay Automatic (5) |
| $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 Clermont car washes?
The table below ranks the top 25 chains operating in Clermont 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 | Circle K | 5 | 168 | 3.22 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 3 | 2,567 | 4.14 | 3.79% | 17.1% | 3.58% |
| 3 | bp | 2 | 266 | 4.16 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Joe’s Car Wash | 1 | 1,770 | 4.40 | 1.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 752 | 4.70 | 1.23% | 21.3% | 1.23% |
| 6 | A1WRAPS TINT & Paint Protection | 1 | 73 | 5.00 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Clermont car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,652 reviews, 15 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Clermont's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 15 car washes in Clermont, FL?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Clermont market is captured in the underlying dataset; the table below shows the highest-review-volume sites for at-a-glance comparison. Each row shows operator, address, format, chain affiliation, rating, review count, and the IRS mean AGI for the ZIP.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Joe's Car Wash 430 US-27 | Clermont, FL | Express Tunnel | Joe’s Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,770 | $59K |
| Mister Car Wash 3195 S Hwy 27 | Clermont, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.1 | 1,468 | $82K |
| Mister Car Wash 1355 E Hwy 50 | Clermont, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 892 | $82K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 2395 E Hwy 50 | Clermont, FL | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.7 | 752 | $82K |
| Mister Car Wash 17017 FL-50 | Clermont, FL | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.2 | 207 | $82K |
| Clermont Auto Spa 1320 Millholland St | Clermont, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.5 | 148 | $82K |
| bp 190 N Hwy 27 | Clermont, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.3 | 140 | $82K |
| bp 600 US-27 U.S. 1 | Clermont, FL | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 4.0 | 126 | $82K |
| Circle K 600 US-27 | Clermont, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 2.5 | 73 | $59K |
| Maverick Detailing LLC 7744 Scicli Wy | Clermont, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 52 | $59K |
Compare Clermont to other car wash markets in the Orlando metro
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WashIndex. (2026, May 20). Clermont, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/clermont-fl
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Car wash inventory for Clermont, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Clermont, 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 Orlando MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,652 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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