Clovis, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Fresno, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
4,644 Google reviews across 14 car washes in Clovis. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Ride & Shine Express Car Wash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.21★
- -0.20 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 3.7%
- 2.4× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 43% of classified
- Median single wash
- $44.99
- range $10–$44.99
- Median unlimited
- $20.24/mo
- cheapest $12/mo at Eco California Auto Detailing
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 122,719
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 41,080
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,766
- 4.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.5
- above ~1.0 — contested · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 6 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.21★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 4,644 Google reviews, 781 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Clovis, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Clovis's car wash market reads as US-market-typical in shape; the distinctive cuts are at the format and aspect levels. 14 locations across 5 chains and 6 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Weighted rating 4.21★; damage 3.7%; membership-cancel friction 12.9%. Equipment reliability runs as the sharpest friction (-0.57). 4,644 Google reviews drive the analysis, 781 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
Published pricing across the 8 of 16 Clovis locations with menus available: median single car wash $44.99 (range $10–$44.99), median unlimited membership $20.24/month (range $12–$39.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $12/mo at Eco California Auto Detailing (STANDARD EXTERIOR).
See the best-rated car washes in Clovis, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Clovis, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Clovis, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 8 of 16 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (50% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Clovis | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eco California Auto Detailing STANDARD EXTERIOR | $12/mo |
| 2 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash Good Wash Recharge | $16/mo |
| 3 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash Good Wash | $18/mo |
| 4 | Raceway Express Car Wash ARIZONA | $20/mo |
| 5 | Red Carpet Car Wash BEST | $20.24/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Clovis | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eco California Auto Detailing STANDARD EXTERIOR | $10 |
| 2 | Crews Magic DELUXE | $12.99 |
| 3 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash Good Wash | $18 |
| 4 | Red Carpet Car Wash PLATINUM PLUS™ Plus One | $44.99 |
| 5 | Ride & Shine Express Car Wash PLATINUM PLUS™ Plus One | $44.99 |
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 Clovis, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Clovis have?
The table below lists every operating format we classify, with locations, reviews, average rating, damage rate, and membership-cancel friction broken out per format. Clovis's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.90★ (6 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.10★ (6 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 6 | 42.9% | 730 | 4.90 | 0.32% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 6 | 42.9% | 3,776 | 4.10 | 6.18% | 13.4% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 7.1% | 51 | 3.30 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 7.1% | 87 | 3.90 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
What is the typical household income near Clovis car washes?
Read together with the format mix above, the income scatter below tells you whether car wash quality in Clovis tracks neighborhood income, format mix, or neither. Operating quality usually dominates this picture.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 14 qualifying locations: -0.39 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $84K AGI/return, 4.36★.
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 | 8 | 2,708 | 4.13 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 5 | 1,769 | 4.38 | Express Tunnel (3) |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 3 | 167 | 3.86 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $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 Clovis car washes?
5 chains alongside 6 independents make up Clovis'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 | Ride & Shine Express Car Wash | 3 | 1,590 | 4.06 | 4.50% | — | 1.35% |
| 2 | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 2 | 1,521 | 4.05 | 11.63% | 8.1% | 2.33% |
| 3 | Raceway Express Car Wash | 1 | 665 | 4.30 | 2.94% | — | 3.92% |
| 4 | Shell | 1 | 51 | 3.30 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Crews Magic | 1 | 87 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Clovis car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 781 AI-extracted reviews across 14 Clovis car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 14 car washes in Clovis, CA?
14 car washes are tracked in Clovis; 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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| Red Carpet Car Wash 801 W Shaw Ave | Clovis, CA | Express Tunnel | Ride & Shine Express Car Wash | 3.8 | 905 | $53K |
| Surf Thru Express Car Wash 596 W Shaw Ave | Clovis, CA | Express Tunnel | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 4.1 | 830 | $53K |
| Surf Thru Express Car Wash 1421 Herndon Ave | Clovis, CA | Express Tunnel | Surf Thru Express Car Wash | 4.0 | 691 | $99K |
| Raceway Express Car Wash 1750 Villa Ave | Clovis, CA | Express Tunnel | Raceway Express Car Wash | 4.3 | 665 | $53K |
| Ride & Shine Express Car Wash 1811 Shaw Ave | Clovis, CA | Express Tunnel | Ride & Shine Express Car Wash | 4.5 | 367 | $99K |
| Ride & Shine Express Car Wash 1005 N Willow Ave | Clovis, CA | Express Tunnel | Ride & Shine Express Car Wash | 4.3 | 318 | $99K |
| Crews Magic 1235 N Willow Ave | Clovis, CA | Full Service | Crews Magic | 3.9 | 87 | $135K |
| Eco California Auto Detailing 836 Oxford Ave | Clovis, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 76 | $53K |
| Showroom Doctor Z 1004 San Jose Ave #101 | Clovis, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 64 | $53K |
| Saints Motorsports Inc 1320 Brookhaven Dr | Clovis, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 61 | $53K |
Compare Clovis to other car wash markets in the Fresno 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 22). Clovis, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/clovis-ca
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Car wash inventory for Clovis, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Clovis, 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 Fresno MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 781 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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