Cumming, GA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA.
Data updated · June 9, 2026
8,308 Google reviews across 19 car washes in Cumming. Format mix, operator rank, county breakdown, rating vs. income, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 19
- Chains
- 7
- lead: Mister Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.59★
- +0.18 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.2%
- 1.3× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 47% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 7,869
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 2,614
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 414
- 4.7× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 34.4
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 19 car wash locations operated by 7 chains and 11 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.59★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 8,308 Google reviews, 3,377 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
19 car wash locations in Cumming, GA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Tracked at 19 car wash locations, Cumming matches the structural profile of the typical US city market of comparable size. 19 locations across 7 chains and 11 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 19-location market weighs in at 4.59★; damage rate 1.2%; cancel friction 7.6%. Staff is the brightest aspect signal (0.89/+1). 8,308 Google reviews drive the analysis, 3,377 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
See the best-rated car washes in Cumming, GA
Ranked by Google review rating
Car wash financing in Cumming, GA
Since 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration has backed 13 car-wash loans in Cumming, GA worth $31.5M, at a median of $1,657,500 per car wash and a 0.0% charge-off rate. About 27% funded brand-new or startup car washes.
- New build / open23% · $3.6M
- Acquisition15% · $2.8M
- Expansion / improvement62% · $1.3M
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 Cumming, GA
How many car washes are in Cumming, GA?
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What is the best-rated car wash in Cumming, GA?
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What is the median household income near Cumming car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Cumming, GA?
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What kinds of car washes does Cumming 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. Cumming's mix sits close to the US-city median shape.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.92★ (9 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 4.20★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 9 | 47.4% | 899 | 4.92 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 9 | 47.4% | 6,825 | 4.57 | 1.38% | 7.2% |
| Full Service | 1 | 5.3% | 584 | 4.20 | 1.59% | 17.6% |
What is the typical household income near Cumming car washes?
Each ZIP in Cumming 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 19 qualifying locations: -0.28 — mild negative. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly lower-rated washes on average, which is unusual. Scatter mean: $131K AGI/return, 4.68★.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 3 | 20 | 8,308 | 4.59 | Detail Shop (10) |
| $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 Cumming car washes?
7 chains run sites in Cumming; 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 | Mister Car Wash | 2 | 3,133 | 4.67 | 0.41% | 1.3% | 1.57% |
| 2 | Rainbow Auto Wash | 1 | 273 | 4.30 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Mr. Clean Car Wash | 1 | 584 | 4.20 | 1.59% | — | 0.00% |
| 4 | Auto Craze Car & Pet Wash | 1 | 1,045 | 4.60 | 0.00% | 0.0% | 0.00% |
| 5 | Take 5 Car Wash | 1 | 897 | 4.60 | 2.98% | 16.1% | 0.60% |
| 6 | Wash Factory Express | 1 | 143 | 4.60 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Blue Penguin Car Wash | 1 | 76 | 4.70 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Cumming car washes?
The aspect grid below summarizes 3,377 AI-extracted reviews across 19 Cumming car wash locations. Each aspect lands on a -1…+1 scale (negative = customers complain more than they praise; positive = the reverse).
Where are the 19 car washes in Cumming, GA?
The complete inventory of car wash locations in the Cumming 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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| Mister Car Wash 1780 Buford Hwy | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.7 | 2,039 | $143K |
| Mister Car Wash 930 Peachtree Pkwy | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.6 | 1,094 | $143K |
| Auto Craze Car & Pet Wash 3475 Keith Bridge Rd | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | Auto Craze Car & Pet Wash | 4.6 | 1,045 | $143K |
| Take 5 Car Wash 3695 Browns Bridge Rd | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | Take 5 Car Wash | 4.6 | 897 | $107K |
| New Grand Slam Car Wash - Cumming 2415 Peachtree Pkwy | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | — | 4.2 | 855 | $143K |
| Mr. Clean Car Wash 3320 Buford Hwy | Cumming, GA | Full Service | Mr. Clean Car Wash | 4.2 | 584 | $143K |
| Uncle Charlie's Car Wash 730 Atlanta Hwy | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | — | 4.7 | 403 | $129K |
| Aqua Bubble Car Wash 5860 Bethelview Rd | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | Rainbow Auto Wash | 4.3 | 273 | $129K |
| Better Auto Detailing 525 Sawnee Vlg Blvd | Cumming, GA | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 208 | $129K |
| Wash Factory Express Cumming 444 Canton Rd | Cumming, GA | Express Tunnel | Wash Factory Express | 4.6 | 143 | $129K |
Compare Cumming to other car wash markets in the Atlanta 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, June 9). Cumming, GA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/cumming-ga
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Car wash inventory for Cumming, GA is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Cumming, 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 Atlanta MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 3,377 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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