Clinton Township, MI Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
4,759 Google reviews across 11 car washes in Clinton Township. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 11
- Chains
- 6
- lead: Jax Kar Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.42★
- Damage rate
- 2.0%
- 1.3× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 36% of classified
- Median single wash
- $11
- range $6–$11
- Median unlimited
- $59.99/mo
- cheapest $17/mo at Wash Pointe Car Wash Garfield
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 99,930
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 45,063
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 9,085
- 4.7× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.7
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 11 car wash locations operated by 6 chains and 4 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.42★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,759 Google reviews, 1,594 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
11 car wash locations in Clinton Township, MI · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Clinton Township sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 11 locations across 6 chains and 4 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 11-location market weighs in at 4.42★; damage rate 2.0%; cancel friction 14.4%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.77/+1). 4,759 Google reviews drive the analysis, 1,594 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 5 of 12 Clinton Township locations with menus available: median single car wash $11 (range $6–$11), median unlimited membership $59.99/month (range $17–$59.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $17/mo at Wash Pointe Car Wash Garfield (Basic Wash).
See the best-rated car washes in Clinton Township, MI
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Clinton Township, MI?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Clinton Township, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 5 of 12 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (42% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Clinton Township | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wash Pointe Car Wash Garfield Basic Wash | $17/mo |
| 2 | Mr C's Carwash Bill's Best | $59.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Clinton Township | ||
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| 1 | Wash Pointe Car Wash Garfield Basic Wash | $6 |
| 2 | Hanna Car Wash & Detail Exterior Wash - Bronze | $10 |
| 3 | Jax Kar Wash - Clinton (Hall Rd.) Basic | $11 |
| 4 | Jax kar wash Basic | $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.
Car wash financing in Clinton Township, MI
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 7 car-wash loans in Clinton Township, MI worth $5.9M, at a median of $412,300 per car wash. About 43% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
FY2026 annualized from its first 6 months.
- New build / open29% · $451K
- Acquisition29% · $2.4M
- Expansion / improvement29% · $110K
- Working capital14% · $25K
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 Clinton Township, MI
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What kinds of car washes does Clinton Township have?
Format counts below split Clinton Township's 11 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 4.95★ (4 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.19★ (3 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 4 | 36.4% | 1,507 | 4.95 | 0.53% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 3 | 27.3% | 1,908 | 4.19 | 3.36% | 14.7% |
| Full Service | 2 | 18.2% | 1,247 | 4.21 | 2.96% | 11.1% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 18.2% | 97 | 3.56 | 7.14% | — |
What is the typical household income near Clinton Township car washes?
Each ZIP in Clinton Township 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 11 qualifying locations: 0.53 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $63K AGI/return, 4.34★.
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 | 3 | 12 | 4,759 | 4.42 | 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 Clinton Township's 11 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Clinton Township car washes?
6 chains run sites in Clinton Township; the top 25 are listed below by location count, with their per-chain operating-quality numbers next to them. Useful for narrowing competitive-set considerations or for M&A evaluation.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Jax Kar Wash | 2 | 1,720 | 4.20 | 3.13% | 14.0% | 1.81% |
| 2 | Wash Pointe Car Wash 9 Mile | 1 | 188 | 4.10 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Refresh My Ride Auto Detailing | 1 | 202 | 5.00 | 0.53% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Mr. C's Car Wash | 1 | 772 | 4.10 | 3.00% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Shell | 1 | 27 | 4.50 | — | — | — |
| 6 | bp | 1 | 70 | 3.20 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Clinton Township car washes?
Seven aspects, 1,594 reviews, 11 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Clinton Township's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 11 car washes in Clinton Township, MI?
11 car washes are tracked in Clinton Township; 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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| Jax Kar Wash - Clinton (Hall Rd.) 22950 Hall Rd | Clinton Township, MI | Express Tunnel | Jax Kar Wash | 4.2 | 1,222 | $68K |
| Mr C's Carwash 41200 Hayes Rd | Clinton Township, MI | Full Service | Mr. C's Car Wash | 4.1 | 772 | $68K |
| Jax kar wash 42400 Hayes Rd | Clinton Township, MI | Express Tunnel | Jax Kar Wash | 4.2 | 498 | $68K |
| Hanna Car Wash & Detail 41200 Garfield Rd | Clinton Township, MI | Full Service | — | 4.4 | 475 | $68K |
| Complete Pristine Detailing 44876 Heydenreich Rd | Clinton Township, MI | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 216 | $68K |
| Refresh My Ride Auto Detailing 366 Gratiot Ave | Clinton Township, MI | Detail Shop | Refresh My Ride Auto Detailing | 5.0 | 202 | $68K |
| Wash Pointe Car Wash Garfield 36925 Garfield Rd | Clinton Township, MI | Express Tunnel | Wash Pointe Car Wash 9 Mile | 4.1 | 188 | $54K |
| Ziebart 19691 15 Mile Rd | Clinton Township, MI | Detail Shop | — | 4.2 | 91 | $54K |
| bp Southbound, 36843 Gratiot Ave | Clinton Township, MI | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.2 | 70 | $54K |
| Shell 36638 Groesbeck Hwy | Clinton Township, MI | In-Bay Automatic | Shell | 4.5 | 27 | $54K |
Compare Clinton Township to other car wash markets in the Detroit metro
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WashIndex. (2026, June 9). Clinton Township, MI car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/clinton-township-mi
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Car wash inventory for Clinton Township, MI is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Clinton Township, 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 Detroit MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,594 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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