Cordova, TN Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
5,481 Google reviews across 10 Cordova car washes — a express tunnel-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 10
- Chains
- 5
- lead: Glide Xpress Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.59★
- +0.18 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.5%
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 60% of classified
Key findings
- 10 car wash locations operated by 5 chains and 2 independents.
- Express tunnel dominates: 60.0% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 5,481 Google reviews, 2,000 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
10 car wash locations in Cordova, TN · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Cordova's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward express tunnel. 60.0% 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.
Headline operating signals: 4.59★ rating, 1.5% damage, 13.6% cancel friction. Equipment reliability runs as the friction point (-0.29). 5,481 Google reviews back the analysis, 2,000 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
See the best-rated car washes in Cordova, TN
Ranked by Google review rating
About Cordova, TN
How many car washes are in Cordova, TN?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Cordova, TN?
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Which car wash chains operate in Cordova, TN?
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What is the median household income near Cordova car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Cordova, TN?
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What kinds of car washes does Cordova have?
Where most markets have a 2–3 format split, Cordova runs as a single-format city for car washing. 60.0% of classified locations are express tunnel — the other formats appear, but at long-tail volume.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.95★ (2 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.59★ (6 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Express Tunnel | 6 | 60.0% | 5,273 | 4.59 | 1.45% | 13.6% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 20.0% | 167 | 4.95 | 1.64% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 2 | 20.0% | 41 | 3.04 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Cordova car washes?
Because Cordova is express tunnel-dominant, the income scatter below mostly reads as a study of how that one format ranges across income tiers. The other formats show up as small splotches at the long tail.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 10 qualifying locations: -0.46 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $68K AGI/return, 4.35★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 10 | 5,481 | 4.59 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Top tier 0 sites at 0.00★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Cordova's express tunnel skew means the income mix reads less as "which formats serve which neighborhoods" and more as "where this one format reaches its limits".
Who operates the most Cordova car washes?
5 chains compete in Cordova, with the top names typically being heavy express tunnel operators. The damage and cancel-friction columns below tell you which chains do this format well and which do it poorly.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | Glide Xpress Car Wash | 2 | 1,716 | 4.73 | 2.26% | 10.3% | 0.15% |
| 2 | Take 5 Car Wash | 2 | 2,473 | 4.57 | 0.77% | 18.3% | 0.33% |
| 3 | bp | 2 | 41 | 3.04 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Zips Car Wash | 1 | 784 | 4.30 | 1.47% | — | 0.00% |
| 5 | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 1 | 300 | 4.80 | 1.83% | 3.2% | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Cordova car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.86); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.29).
Where are the 10 car washes in Cordova, TN?
10 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 10003 Macon Rd | Cordova, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,398 | $64K |
| Glide Xpress Car Wash 723 N Germantown Pkwy | Cordova, TN | Express Tunnel | Glide Xpress Car Wash | 4.7 | 1,268 | $73K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 434 S Germantown Pkwy | Cordova, TN | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.4 | 1,075 | $73K |
| Zips Car Wash 1565 N Germantown Pkwy | Cordova, TN | Express Tunnel | Zips Car Wash | 4.3 | 784 | $64K |
| Glide Xpress Car Wash 1470 N Germantown Pkwy | Cordova, TN | Express Tunnel | Glide Xpress Car Wash | 4.8 | 448 | $64K |
| Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash 1650 N Germantown Pkwy | Cordova, TN | Express Tunnel | Tidal Wave Auto Spa | Car Wash | 4.8 | 300 | $64K |
| Gr8 Detailing Co. 820 Herbert Rd STE 113 | Cordova, TN | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 139 | $73K |
| Royal1 Mobile Detailing Memphis 2871 Morning Lake Dr #202 | Cordova, TN | Detail Shop | — | 4.7 | 28 | $64K |
| bp 1253 N Houston Levee Rd | Cordova, TN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 2.9 | 22 | $73K |
| bp 8111 Walnut Grove Rd | Cordova, TN | In-Bay Automatic | bp | 3.2 | 19 | $73K |
Compare Cordova to other car wash markets in the Memphis metro
Cities in the same metro, ordered by closest comparable size. Each link runs the same operator concentration, format mix, and customer-experience analysis.
Data as of 2026-05-22. Pick a format and click Copy.
WashIndex. (2026, May 22). Cordova, TN car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/cordova-tn
WashIndex. "Cordova, TN car wash market analysis." WashIndex. Last modified May 22, 2026. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/cordova-tn.
"Cordova, TN car wash market analysis." WashIndex, May. 22, 2026, https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/cordova-tn.
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Car wash inventory for Cordova, TN is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Cordova, 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 Memphis MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 2,000 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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