Concord, CA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
1,934 Google reviews across 14 car washes in Concord. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 14
- Chains
- 4
- lead: Autopia Car Wash - PH (2)
- Avg rating
- 3.83★
- -0.58 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 5.3%
- 3.4× MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 50% of classified
- Median single wash
- $33.99
- range $28.99–$33.99
- Median unlimited
- $37.95/mo
- cheapest $37.95/mo at Autopia Car Wash - Concord
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 124,260
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 45,635
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,876
- 4.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.2
- below the ~0.5 expandable band · classified sites
Key findings
- 14 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 9 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 3.83★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 1,934 Google reviews, 436 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
14 car wash locations in Concord, CA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Concord sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 4 chains compete alongside 9 independents — typical mix for a market of 14 car washes. Customer-experience signals across 436 AI-extracted reviews produce the distinct read on this market.
Weighted rating 3.83★; damage 5.3%; membership-cancel friction 14.8%. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (0.65/+1). Per-operator and per-format cuts below are more informative than the aggregates.
Published pricing across the 4 of 16 Concord locations with menus available: median single car wash $33.99 (range $28.99–$33.99), median unlimited membership $37.95/month (range $37.95–$37.95/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $37.95/mo at Autopia Car Wash - Concord (Super).
See the best-rated car washes in Concord, CA
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Concord, CA?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Concord, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 4 of 16 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (25% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Concord | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autopia Car Wash - Concord Super | $37.95/mo |
| 2 | Autopia Car Wash - PH Super | $37.95/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Concord | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diablo Car Wash & Detail Wash No. 1 | $28.99 |
| 2 | Brothers Detail Center Full Service Basic Wash | $33.99 |
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 Concord, CA
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What kinds of car washes does Concord have?
Format counts below split Concord's 14 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 4.91★ (7 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 3.50★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 7 | 50.0% | 354 | 4.91 | 0.50% | — |
| Full Service | 5 | 35.7% | 1,169 | 3.52 | 10.11% | 20.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 1 | 7.1% | 138 | 3.50 | 6.52% | 8.3% |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 7.1% | 273 | 3.90 | 10.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Concord car washes?
Each ZIP in Concord 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 14 qualifying locations: -0.38 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $92K AGI/return, 4.28★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $75K – $100K | 2 | 11 | 878 | 4.07 | Detail Shop (8) |
| $100K – $150K | 3 | 5 | 1,056 | 3.63 | Full Service (3) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top-tier 0 sites, 0.00★ avg; bottom-tier 0 sites, 0.00★. Across Concord's 14 qualifying locations, the income gradient correlates only weakly with rating — operator execution dominates.
Who operates the most Concord car washes?
4 chains run sites in Concord; 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 | Autopia Car Wash - PH | 2 | 461 | 3.62 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Ducky's Express @ Chevron San Jose | 1 | 138 | 3.50 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Gold Coin Car Wash | 1 | 273 | 3.90 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Super Station Car Wash | 1 | 432 | 3.50 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Concord car washes?
Seven aspects, 436 reviews, 14 locations. The grid below gives a quick read on which dimensions of the experience Concord's car wash market does well at and which generate friction.
Where are the 14 car washes in Concord, CA?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Concord. The full set of 14 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Super Station Car Wash 627 Contra Costa Blvd | Concord, CA | Full Service | Super Station Car Wash | 3.5 | 432 | $138K |
| Autopia Car Wash - Concord 4524 Clayton Rd | Concord, CA | Full Service | Autopia Car Wash - PH | 3.6 | 360 | $114K |
| Gold Coin Car Wash 2191 Monument Blvd | Concord, CA | Self-Serve Bay | Gold Coin Car Wash | 3.9 | 273 | $75K |
| Brothers Detail Center 1840 Monument Blvd | Concord, CA | Full Service | — | 3.1 | 185 | $75K |
| Ducky's Car Wash Concord 4595 Clayton Rd | Concord, CA | Express Tunnel | Ducky's Express @ Chevron San Jose | 3.5 | 138 | $114K |
| Autopia Car Wash - PH 1755 Market St | Concord, CA | Full Service | Autopia Car Wash - PH | 3.7 | 101 | $75K |
| Diablo Car Wash & Detail 1024 Alberta Way | Concord, CA | Full Service | — | 4.0 | 91 | $114K |
| Al's Auto Detail-Mobile Services 1410 Concord Ave suite d | Concord, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 63 | $75K |
| ARTDESHINE STUDIOS 2312 Bates Ave Suite C | Concord, CA | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 46 | $75K |
| Oscars Mobile Detailing (Tint-PPF-Wrap) 2570 Cloverdale Ave suite 1 | Concord, CA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 35 | $109K |
Compare Concord to other car wash markets in the San Francisco 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). Concord, CA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/concord-ca
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Car wash inventory for Concord, CA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Concord, 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 San Francisco MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 436 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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