Davenport, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
Quality-outlier car wash market analysis for Davenport: 15 sites, 10,387 reviews, sharp deviation from chain-category norms. Per-operator damage attribution, format-level quality decomposition, aspect-level customer signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 3
- lead: ModWash (3)
- Avg rating
- 4.88★
- +0.47 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 0.6%
- 2.6× below MSA norm
- Top format
- detail shop
- 60% of classified
- Median single wash
- $25
- range $25–$25
- Median unlimited
- $100/mo
- cheapest $20/mo at Joe’s Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 11,660
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 3,406
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 777
- 2.5× denser than the national MSA median
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 11.7
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 3 chains and 10 independents.
- Reviewer-reported damage rate of 0.6% runs 2.6× below the 1.6% US-market median.
- Built from 10,387 Google reviews, 3,167 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Davenport, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Davenport stands out for operational-quality signals that are below the typical US market norm. Reviewer-reported damage runs at 0.6% across 15 tracked locations, vs. a peer median of 1.6%. Reading the operator-level breakdown below shows which segments drive the outlier signal.
Headline rating 4.88★; damage 0.6% (vs. 1.6% peer median). Staff runs positive (0.94); equipment reliability runs negative (-0.06). 10,387 Google reviews underpin the quality cut, 3,167 AI-extracted.
Published pricing across the 2 of 15 Davenport locations with menus available: median single car wash $25 (range $25–$25), median unlimited membership $100/month (range $20–$100/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $20/mo at Joe’s Car Wash (Peel N Go).
See the best-rated car washes in Davenport, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Davenport, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Davenport, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 2 of 15 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (13% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Davenport | ||
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| 1 | Joe’s Car Wash Peel N Go | $20/mo |
| 2 | BLV Detailing LLC Gloss Maintenance Program - Standard | $100/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Davenport | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe’s Car Wash Lil-Glow | $25 |
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 Davenport, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Davenport have?
Reading format mix in a quality-outlier market like Davenport is most useful as a damage-attribution exercise: which formats contribute most to the elevated metro-wide damage rate, and which are clean. The per-format damage column below answers that directly.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.92★ (9 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.90★ (4 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 9 | 60.0% | 887 | 4.92 | 0.19% | — |
| Express Tunnel | 4 | 26.7% | 9,387 | 4.90 | 0.69% | 17.3% |
| Full Service | 1 | 6.7% | 21 | 2.50 | 0.00% | — |
| In-Bay Automatic | 1 | 6.7% | 92 | 3.30 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Davenport car washes?
The scatter pairs each car wash's Google rating against the mean IRS AGI per return in its ZIP. Reads of Davenport's quality signal benefit from this overlay — does the friction concentrate in lower-income ZIPs, or does it persist across them?
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 15 qualifying locations: 0.16 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $58K AGI/return, 4.63★.
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 | 15 | 10,387 | 4.88 | Detail Shop (9) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Per-tier dispersion: 0/0.00★ at the top, 0/0.00★ at the bottom. For Davenport's quality-outlier signal, this is the income-attribution view: which income bands carry the deviation, and which match the broader peer norms.
Who operates the most Davenport car washes?
3 chains operate in Davenport. With damage running at 0.6% (vs. 1.6% peer median), the chain-by-chain damage column below shows you which operators are driving the outlier signal.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | ModWash | 3 | 9,086 | 4.90 | 0.50% | 18.4% | 0.46% |
| 2 | Joe’s Car Wash | 1 | 301 | 4.80 | 2.50% | — | 0.42% |
| 3 | Circle K | 1 | 92 | 3.30 | — | — | — |
What do customers love and complain about at Davenport car washes?
Equipment reliability at -0.06 is the sharpest friction signal in Davenport — read alongside the elevated damage rate above for the operating story.
Where are the 15 car washes in Davenport, FL?
15 sites in Davenport; the top of the list below by review volume. Read alongside the elevated damage and quality signals above — the highest-volume sites usually anchor the metro-wide numbers.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| ModWash 49483 US-27 | Davenport, FL | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 4,952 | $53K |
| ModWash 8087 Lake Wilson Rd | Davenport, FL | Express Tunnel | ModWash | 4.9 | 4,095 | $62K |
| Joe’s Car Wash 2513 Frontage Rd | Davenport, FL | Express Tunnel | Joe’s Car Wash | 4.8 | 301 | $59K |
| Iced Out Mobile | Window Tinting & Detailing. 434 Pine Cone Dr | Davenport, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 240 | $53K |
| Champion Mobile Detailing 112 Pintail Ln unit B-5 | Davenport, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 179 | $62K |
| Mobile Moves Auto Detailing 2544 Declaration St | Davenport, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 135 | $59K |
| E's Luxury Auto Detailing 716 Knollwood Dr | Davenport, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 125 | $59K |
| Luech Kustoms INC 401 Davenport Blvd | Davenport, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.3 | 92 | $59K |
| Circle K 2444 US-27 | Davenport, FL | In-Bay Automatic | Circle K | 3.3 | 92 | $53K |
| Magic Shine Mobile Detail U.S. Hwy 17-92 N | Davenport, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.8 | 49 | $59K |
Compare Davenport to other car wash markets in the Lakeland 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). Davenport, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/davenport-fl
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Car wash inventory for Davenport, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Davenport, 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 Lakeland MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 3,167 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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