Davenport, IA Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL MSA.
Data updated · May 22, 2026
2,764 Google reviews across 15 car washes in Davenport. Format mix, operator rank, geographic distribution, income overlay, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 15
- Chains
- 8
- lead: bp (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.09★
- -0.32 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 5.6%
- 3.6× MSA norm
- Top format
- express tunnel
- 53% of classified
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 101,083
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 43,479
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 6,739
- 3.5× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 1.8
- above ~1.5 — heavily built · classified sites
Key findings
- 15 car wash locations operated by 8 chains and 3 independents.
- Weighted Google rating 4.09★ across the market; structural concentration and format mix sit near US-market norms.
- Built from 2,764 Google reviews, 551 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
15 car wash locations in Davenport, IA · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Davenport sits near the center of the US-market distribution on concentration, format mix, and rating. 15 locations across 8 chains and 3 independents. Distinctive patterns show up below at the format and aspect levels.
Average rating across the 15-location market weighs in at 4.09★; damage rate 5.6%; cancel friction 9.9%. Facility cleanliness is the brightest aspect signal (0.58/+1). 2,764 Google reviews drive the analysis, 551 of them processed through the WashIndex LLM extractor.
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Ranked by Google review rating
About Davenport, IA
How many car washes are in Davenport, IA?
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Which car wash chains operate in Davenport, IA?
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What is the median household income near Davenport car washes?
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What is the average car wash rating in Davenport, IA?
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What kinds of car washes does Davenport have?
The format mix in Davenport reads as a typical mid-market US city — express tunnels and detail shops carrying the bulk of supply, with full-service and self-serve layered in. The bar chart pairs location count with per-format average rating.
Highest-rated format in this market: Express Tunnel at 4.16★ (8 locations). Lowest: Full Service at 3.70★ (1 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Express Tunnel | 8 | 53.3% | 2,152 | 4.16 | 6.90% | 10.0% |
| In-Bay Automatic | 3 | 20.0% | 144 | 3.78 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| Detail Shop | 2 | 13.3% | 110 | 4.11 | 0.00% | — |
| Full Service | 1 | 6.7% | 254 | 3.70 | 0.00% | — |
| Self-Serve Bay | 1 | 6.7% | 104 | 3.80 | 0.00% | — |
What is the typical household income near Davenport car washes?
Each ZIP in Davenport 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 15 qualifying locations: 0.09 — effectively zero. Operating quality dominates over neighborhood income here. Scatter mean: $83K AGI/return, 4.11★.
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 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5.00 | Detail Shop (1) |
| $50K – $75K | 2 | 6 | 1,321 | 3.96 | In-Bay Automatic (2) |
| $75K – $100K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| $100K – $150K | 1 | 8 | 1,431 | 4.20 | Express Tunnel (6) |
| $150K+ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
Income band spread: 0/0.00★ at the highest tier; 1/5.00★ 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 Davenport car washes?
8 chains run sites in Davenport; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bp | 2 | 54 | 3.76 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Mister Car Wash | 2 | 224 | 4.30 | 9.02% | — | 2.46% |
| 3 | Club Car Wash | 2 | 245 | 4.20 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Pro-Clean Car Wash Express | 2 | 1,037 | 3.95 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Super Wash | 1 | 104 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Power Wash | 1 | 90 | 3.80 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 1 | 315 | 4.40 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Aqua-Tech Car Wash | 1 | 331 | 4.50 | 4.41% | — | 0.00% |
What do customers love and complain about at Davenport car washes?
Reading the aspect grid: numbers above 0.3 are strong positives; numbers below -0.1 indicate meaningful friction; in between is mixed signal. facility cleanliness is the brightest spot here. equipment reliability is the pain point.
Where are the 15 car washes in Davenport, IA?
Top 10 car washes by review volume in Davenport. The full set of 15 is available in the underlying dataset.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| Pro-Clean Car Wash Express 1124 W Kimberly Rd | Davenport, IA | Express Tunnel | Pro-Clean Car Wash Express | 3.9 | 532 | $63K |
| Pro-Clean Car Wash Express 2145 E Kimberly Rd | Davenport, IA | Express Tunnel | Pro-Clean Car Wash Express | 4.0 | 505 | $103K |
| Aqua-Tech Car Wash 6280 Elmore Avenue | Davenport, IA | Express Tunnel | Aqua-Tech Car Wash | 4.5 | 331 | $103K |
| Tommy's Express® Car Wash 4200 N Brady St | Davenport, IA | Express Tunnel | Tommy's Express® Car Wash | 4.4 | 315 | $63K |
| Quality Truck Washes - Davenport, IA 3675 W 83rd St | Davenport, IA | Full Service | — | 3.7 | 254 | $63K |
| Club Car Wash 3035 E 53rd St | Davenport, IA | Express Tunnel | Club Car Wash | 4.2 | 217 | $103K |
| Mister Car Wash 4511 E 53rd St | Davenport, IA | Express Tunnel | Mister Car Wash | 4.3 | 138 | $103K |
| Super Wash 2128 W Kimberly Rd | Davenport, IA | Self-Serve Bay | Super Wash | 3.8 | 104 | $63K |
| Jersey Ridge Car Wash 5325 Jersey Ridge Rd | Davenport, IA | Detail Shop | — | 4.0 | 98 | $103K |
| Power Wash 107 W 53rd St | Davenport, IA | In-Bay Automatic | Power Wash | 3.8 | 90 | $63K |
Compare Davenport to other car wash markets in the Davenport 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, IA car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/davenport-ia
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Car wash inventory for Davenport, IA 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 Davenport MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 551 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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