Davie, FL Car Wash Market Analysis
Part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL MSA.
Data updated · May 20, 2026
3,107 Google reviews across 12 Davie car washes — a detail shop-dominant market. Format dominance breakdown, per-format quality, operator rank, customer-experience signals.
Snapshot
- Locations
- 12
- Chains
- 4
- lead: The Paddock Cafe and Car Wash (2)
- Avg rating
- 4.70★
- +0.29 vs MSA median
- Damage rate
- 1.9%
- Top format
- detail shop
- 67% of classified
- Median single wash
- $50
- range $10.99–$50
- Median unlimited
- $19.99/mo
- cheapest $19.95/mo at M Car Wash
Market Quality snapshot
- Population
- 106,412
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Households
- 38,377
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Residents per wash
- 8,868
- 4.6× the national MSA median — lighter supply
- Express tunnels per 10K households
- 0.5
- in the 0.5–1.0 filling band · classified sites
Key findings
- 12 car wash locations operated by 4 chains and 8 independents.
- Detail shop dominates: 66.7% of formally-classified locations.
- Built from 3,107 Google reviews, 1,501 of them AI-extracted across 55 dimensions.
12 car wash locations in Davie, FL · dots colored by format · sized by review volume
Davie's car wash supply is structurally tilted toward detail shop. 66.7% of formally-classified locations operate as detail shop; the other formats appear at long-tail volume. That makes the metro a useful read on how detail shop performs at scale.
Weighted rating across the market is 4.70★; damage runs 1.9%. The dominant detail shop averages 4.96★ on its own. Staff stands out positively (0.86/+1). 3,107 Google reviews back the analysis, 1,501 LLM-extracted across 55 dimensions.
Published pricing across the 6 of 16 Davie locations with menus available: median single car wash $50 (range $10.99–$50), median unlimited membership $19.99/month (range $19.95–$19.99/mo). The cheapest unlimited membership in the city is $19.95/mo at M Car Wash (BASIC WASH).
See the best-rated car washes in Davie, FL
Ranked by Google review rating
What does a car wash cost in Davie, FL?
Published menu pricing for car washes in Davie, captured from operator websites and the WashIndex AI calling agent. 6 of 16 tracked locations in the city have usable published pricing (38% coverage).
| Cheapest unlimited memberships in Davie | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | M Car Wash BASIC WASH | $19.95/mo |
| 2 | Iko Car Wash Basic 2nd & 3rd VIP Memberships | $19.99/mo |
| Cheapest single car washes in Davie | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elite Ceramic Pro Hollywood FL - Ceramic Coating, PPF - Paint Protection Film - Clear Bra, Window Tint Medium Vehicles | $10.99 |
| 2 | Finish Line Mobile Detailing and Car Wash Silver Package - 2 Door Cars | $50 |
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 Davie, FL
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What kinds of car washes does Davie have?
Format dominance is the structural story here. 8 of the 12 car washes in Davie run as detail shop. The mini-table below shows how the rest of the market splits.
Highest-rated format in this market: Detail Shop at 4.96★ (8 locations). Lowest: Express Tunnel at 4.54★ (2 locations).
| Format | Locations | % of MSA | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage Rate | Cancel Friction |
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| Detail Shop | 8 | 66.7% | 1,067 | 4.96 | 0.55% | 0.0% |
| Express Tunnel | 2 | 16.7% | 1,129 | 4.54 | 5.07% | 26.1% |
| Full Service | 2 | 16.7% | 911 | 4.59 | 2.03% | 6.9% |
What is the typical household income near Davie car washes?
12 car washes with ≥10 reviews are plotted below against ZIP-level mean AGI. With detail shop carrying 66.7% of classified locations, dot color reads heavily skewed toward a single hue.
Pearson r between ZIP income and rating across 12 qualifying locations: 0.18 — mild positive. Higher-income ZIPs host slightly better-rated washes; weak but present. Scatter mean: $143K AGI/return, 4.84★.
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 | 1 | 5 | 713 | 4.98 | Detail Shop (5) |
| $75K – $100K | 1 | 2 | 975 | 4.65 | Express Tunnel (1) |
| $100K – $150K | 3 | 6 | 1,157 | 4.52 | Detail Shop (4) |
| $150K+ | 2 | 3 | 262 | 4.93 | Detail Shop (2) |
Top tier 3 sites at 4.93★; bottom tier 0 sites at 0.00★. Davie's detail shop 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 Davie car washes?
Because Davie skews so heavily to one format, the chain rank reads like a ranking of how well each chain executes that format. Locations, reviews, ratings, and operational signals follow.
| # | Chain | Locations | Reviews | Avg Rating | Damage | Cancel | Upsell |
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| 1 | The Paddock Cafe and Car Wash | 2 | 388 | 5.00 | 0.37% | — | 0.00% |
| 2 | M Car Wash | 1 | 808 | 4.60 | 4.79% | — | 0.60% |
| 3 | CarWash Points - Hollywood | 1 | 194 | 4.90 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Wash and Wax Pros - Davie | 1 | 717 | 4.50 | 2.39% | — | 1.43% |
What do customers love and complain about at Davie car washes?
Staff stands out positively (0.86); equipment reliability stands out as the friction point (-0.35).
Where are the 12 car washes in Davie, FL?
Top locations by review count in Davie. With 66.7% of classified sites running as detail shop, the format column below reads consistently rather than varying across the list.
| Location | City | Format | Chain | Rating | Reviews | ZIP AGI |
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| M Car Wash 1955 S State Rd 7 | Davie, FL | Express Tunnel | M Car Wash | 4.6 | 808 | $81K |
| Wash and Wax Pros - Davie 5555 S University Dr | Davie, FL | Full Service | Wash and Wax Pros - Davie | 4.5 | 717 | $133K |
| Iko Car Wash 4450 S Pine Island Rd | Davie, FL | Express Tunnel | — | 4.4 | 321 | $133K |
| CarWash Points Gator at Griffin 14810 Griffin Rd | Davie, FL | Full Service | CarWash Points - Hollywood | 4.9 | 194 | $235K |
| Exotic Car Detailers, FL 5326 SW 32nd St | Davie, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 56 | $61K |
| Father & Son Mobile Auto Detail 822 SW 124th Terrace | Davie, FL | Detail Shop | — | 4.9 | 47 | $115K |
| Absolute Mobile Detailing 5101 SW 113th Ave | Davie, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 38 | $282K |
| Auto Imprint llc 4474 Weston rd #1192 | Davie, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 30 | $235K |
| P's Mobile Detailing 3900 SW 100th Ave | Davie, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 28 | $133K |
| Klean Group Corporation 7750 Nova Dr #3A | Davie, FL | Detail Shop | — | 5.0 | 27 | $109K |
Compare Davie to other car wash markets in the Miami 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). Davie, FL car wash market analysis. https://washindex.com/car-wash-cities/davie-fl
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Car wash inventory for Davie, FL is sourced from the WashIndex national car-wash place index, filtered to places whose Google-Maps-reported city matches Davie, 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 Miami MSA dataset is established by point-in-polygon against the official US Census county boundaries (TIGER/Line, 2024).
Operating-quality signals are derived from 1,501 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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